Just to write a story, for example, about a speaker on campus, students will have to use the following skills:

1. Observation skills
2. Note taking skills
3. Critical thinking skills - figuring out what is important
4. Writing skills
5. Current event skills - keeping up with what is going on
6. Research skills - finding out about the speaker in advance
7. Reading skills - reading other material about the speaker
8. Internet skills - researching the story
9. Computer skills - writing up the story and using PageMaker to lay it out
10. Art skills - determining the best page layout
11. Photography skills - taking photos for the paper and using Adobe PhotoShop to edit them
12. Math skills - doing Excel spreadsheets of survey data collected
13. Science knowledge - writing stories that are scientifically based
14. Interviewing skills - used in all stories