Writing Experiences

My name is Heather Burnett and a am a junior journalism major in the public relations sequence. Being a journalism major, I have a fairly large amount of writing experience. However, the majority of my writing has been in a magazine or press release style so I'm sure that the writing we do in this class will differ greatly from my previous experience. My most recent writing class was J370 Media Relations and Publicity. I enjoyed this class because we created a media kit for a client which included numerous pieces of writing and I gained real world experience. However, my teacher had a hard time realizing that this was the first time many of us had written some of these pieces so he was a much harsher grader than I thought necessary. My writing experience includes: The Post and  www.hercampus.com/ohiou where I am currently am editor. I interned at O'Bleness Memorial Hospital last summer and am currently employed at the Office of Multicultural Programs and eLearning OHIO. I gained writing experience at all of these places in the form of press releases, newsletter writing and feature stories.
I'm concerned that I will not perform well at the writing tasks in this class because I haven't written a piece in "normal" writing since the beginning of my freshman year. In public relations, you are taught to write in a completely different way than anything you've done before so I hope this class can teach me how to balance the two writing styles and can improve my research abilities.