HARVEY KURT D.

IBE
MODULE 2
THE CAMPUS PAPER

Lesson 1
Time Table: 1.5 hours
Topic Learning Outcomes:
a. identify the scope and nature of school publication;
b. distinguish the functions of campus paper;
c. visit the history of campus papers.

What I Know What I Want to Know What I Learned

School Publication is the
organization of students and
teachers where everyone will
learn about creative and
technical writing that they can
be used for publishing various
works like literary folio, school
paper, and many more.
What I want to know in School The best things that I learned
Publication is how can I train joining school publications are:
myself and how can I be trained
 politeness
with the help of my co-writers. I
 resourcefulness
want to know the
 cooperation
responsibilities and all the
 transparency
needed skills for me to excel  time-management
more on this field.

Congratulations! You made it through Module 1! There is more to go and we’ll be done! But
really, it’s not going to be difficult. It may look a lot, but I promise all of this will be very
helpful, especially in taking the Licensure examination for Teachers (and even as an English
teacher in the future)! So, let’s move on to the next module, shall we?

Enabling Activity
Fill the K-W-L chart below with what you know about school publication.

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 Kindly paste pictures of daily newspapers that you know.

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 Do you know examples of weeklies in the Philippines? Kindly paste pictures of
those on the space below.

Do you want to join the school publication? If yes, what can you contribute?
Yes, at some point, I want to join the school publication. If I
could join the school publication, I would use the privilege to
express my writing skills and critical thinking about the current
events inside the school. I said “at some point” because I feel
that I have no progress in joining the college school
publication. I joined the publication in lower years before, and I
expected that there will be advisers to teach/train us every
week and there were none. I only want to join in a school
publication where they value students’ progress and not only
when they need someone to write and work.

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Lesson 2
Time Table: 1.5 hours
Topic Learning Outcomes:
a. discuss the legal basis of campus paper;
b. identify the duties of members of the editorial board;
c. distinguish the functions of campus paper;
d. critic the characteristics of magazines and newspaper;
e. give examples of the parts campus paper.

What position do you aspire in the school publication? What responsibilities are you
expected to contribute?
I aspire for the position of feature editor or literary
editor. With a feature editor position, I think I need the
responsibility of being able to communicate in all types
of person, especially when it comes to interview. I think
that’s something I need to improve because I’m bot
good in communicating verbally. Secondly, with a
literary editor position, I think I need a responsibility of
being collaborative. Sometimes I don’t mind correcting
my co-literary writers when or where they lack in
creative writing. With that, I need to work with
collaboration and not in solo.

What policy do you want to establish in our school publication?

The policy I would like to implement in a school publication

is “Equal work / responsibilities”. Before, I joined in a school
publication, but suddenly I didn’t have the inspiration to
work better and I just stopped being responsible. I did that
 because I felt that there is no equal responsibility anymore
and it made me have no interest in campus journ.
Sometimes someone would just write everything and
he/she does not give opportunities for rookies to become
better. On the other hand, someone would not attend and
let the rookies to work for “agbaggkat ti school paper, ag-
kartib, kada aglalaok ditan”. Haha. As I said earlier, there
will be no progress if the responsibilities are not equal. Let’s
go for a policy where there it promotes equal responsibility
which can lead to equal progress. Duh.

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 Your Turn
Choose one newspaper. Cut or Copy and Paste its front page and mount it
TASK 1: on a piece of bond paper. Then, label its parts following the guidelines below.

NAMEPLATE

BANNER HEAD

BY-LINE

BANNER NEWS

CUTLINE CREDIT LINE

KICKER

BOXED STORY

COLUMN RULE

COLUMN

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 Interview the members of the school paper or the editorial board. Identify
TASK 2: problems they meet in operating a campus paper.

(Hi ma’am, I interviewed someone from other school. People I asked for an interview are busy, and also, some are
already interviewed by my classmates. Thank You.)

Interviewer: Harvey Kurt Ibe, BSE English

Interviewee: Carol Duran, BSE English, Feature Editor, Cagayan State University

The Barriers in Finishing a School Paper

“The hardest part of being on the organization – school paper publication – is

on how to use the budget and allowance especially when every writers/members
needs support” – Duran. That’s what I have read out of our Messenger conversation.
That’s what she thinks the most.

Apropos to Ms. Duran’s statements, It is hard to publish a school paper when

the budget of the school is late. “It slows the every process,” she emphasized. It also
makes the printing time-frame to be not followed on time.

“Not only that, writers are annoyed to the lack of budget for the writers
expenses themselves,” she added. Her statements plays in the idea of: all writers
must have the privilege to be supported by the school. According to her stories, most
student writers have no allowances especially when they work in weekends; they do
not have free snacks, lunch and water; they do not have public vehicle fair expenses
support; and they do not have financial awards.

As student writers who sacrifice everything just to finish the

paper/magazine/folios/documentaries, both of Ms. Duran and I agreed in the idea
that with that problem, those student staffs of school publication must be supported
by adding enough budget for them.

“Students writers must be acknowledged better,” Duran quoted.

TASK 3:
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 Work with a partner. Form a group of three. Each member should have one
magazine and one newspaper. Using the criteria below, identify the unique features
of the selected magazine and newspaper.

Features Magazine Newspaper

Layouts are book-type format
Layout or format
and has fewer columns
Printed on a larger size of
paper and has more columns
and news

Has also large and bold fonts Large in font size and has
Headlines (titles) but usually have brighter bold fonts. Neutral colors are
colors mostly used

Formal and technical but More on formal and technical

Style of writing there more entertainment and has few entertainment
parts parts

Major objective To Entertain and Encourage To Inform and Advertise

Millennial, students, News lovers, workers, middle

Type of readers youngsters to late ages

Artistic pictures like

photography of nature,
Types of pictures Current event pictures.
infrastructures, celebrities
and models

Cost 120 Php to 500 Php 15 Php tp 50 Php

Distribution schedule Weekly and Monthly Daily and Weekly

(Ma’am, awan groupmate/s ko. Huhu. Siak lattan ma’am. Adda kano met
groupmates dan ken nakapasa da kanon ma’am. Haha. But I answered it by
assessing 3 newspapers and 3 magazines po. salamat)

References
Esteban Jr., A. (2021). Campus Journalism. Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija.

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