Encyclopedia of Opinion
Question
What are some viable career options for an English major?
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The journalism sector

This position holds that journalism is a strong career path for English majors. It argues that their skills in writing and analysis make them well suited to producing valuable reporting — working as reporters who gather and tell the news, or as columnists offering comment and opinion.

Supporting arguments · 2

  1. English majors can become reporters
    English majors possess many of the same skills of story construction and analytical reading and writing that reports do, so one viable career option for English majors is reporting.
  2. English majors can become columnists
    English majors and journalism go hand in hand, the educational subjects so intrinsically related that, often, the natural career path for aspiring writers entering the workforce with degrees in English leads towards becoming a columnist. Many of the skills required for a career in journalism are derived from the English discipline in higher education.