Shelley Mann, Columbus Crave- Writer/Blogger Workshop

ABOUT SHELLEY MANN

Shelley Mann is the editor-in-chief of Columbus Crave, a new Columbus food magazine. She previously worked as the editor of Columbus Alive!, and while an undergrauate at Ohio State, edited The Lantern. Read her biography here:

http://www.columbusalive.com/live/content/features/stories/2010/01/28/ca_u_unedited_shelley-mann.html

Review the attached articles, and familiarize yourself with ColumbusCrave.com by clicking around the site, learning about the publication, and analyzing its rhetorical goals. How would you characterize the site and print paper’s audience—who is the “public” Shelley and her writers are producing this publication for? What particular challenges might arise when writing for a local audience?

Post 1: http://www.columbusalive.com/live/content/features/stories/2011/01/27/staff-pick-fitz-and-the-tantrums-at-the-newport.html

Post 2: http://www.columbusalive.com/live/content/features/stories/2010/11/25/victorias-secret-fashion-show-2010.html

Post 3: http://www.columbusalive.com/live/content/features/stories/2010/09/23/movie-review-cairo-time.html

Post 4: http://www.columbusalive.com/live/content/crave/stories/2011/05/restaurant-review-rigsbys.html

Post 5:

http://columbuscrave.com/crave/blog/1/51610976-Summertime-at-Jenis

You will compose three individual questions for Shelley, and email them to me by the end of class.