Women and Spirituality Conference Rewrite

For my strategic research communications class we were asked to rewrite Rob Murray’s article ‘“Politics of Food,’ other hot topics at Women and Spirituality Conference” from the Mankato Free Press. The intention of this exercise is to help us practice writing for the web. Writing for the web differs from writing in print in various ways. Here are some tips for writing for the web.
• Use short sentences
• Use half as many words as you would for a print news release
• Utilize active verbs
• Keep paragraphs to one or two sentences
• Use bullet points and lists

Women and Spirituality Conference delivers the deliberation of ‘Politics of Food’ to Minnesota State Mankato

MANKATO, Minn.- Minnesota State University, Mankato is hosting the Women and Spirituality Conference on Oct. 31. This event features a nationally known keynote speaker.

Physicist, author and international sustainability leader Vandana Shiva will be discussing “The Gendered Politics of Food.” Shiva is scheduled to present her address at 11 a.m. in the Centennial Student Union Ballroom.

Shiva founded Navdanya, a national Indian-based movement. Navdanya supports protecting resources and promoting organic farming. She is also credited for starting an international college for sustaining living in Doon Valley, India.

Some of the books she has written include “The Violence of Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics” and “Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology.”

The conference will consist of more than 100 discussions that analyze various topics.

For more information concerning this event you can visit the Gender and Women’s Studies Web site.