News Writing Exercise.\u00a0“Without the proper ingredients, the best chef is no better than a short-\u00a0order cook. Without the proper use of participant accounts, personal observation, and detail, the best writer’s\u00a0stories land with a thud. Good writing begins with good reporting. You can settle for a dry police report, or you\u00a0can go to the scene and gather details”\ufffd (Brooks, et al., 2011, p. 197).\tAssignment Instructions\tPart I\tFor the first part of this assignment, read the following facts and write a news story using the traditional inverted pyramid and AP style guidelines:\tDonna L. Neal, 18 of 34 Wayside Drive; Angela Kane, 18, of 263 Blue Ridge Road; Colleen M. Stark, 17, of 534 Grand Ave., all of Springfield. Neal, the driver, and Kane, a passenger, were killed at 1:30 a.m. Saturday. Their car went out of control on a curve near 8301 E. Stadium Drive on the north side of\u00a0Truman Sports Complex in Springfield. The Neal car crossed into the westbound lane and hit the driver’s\u00a0side of a tractor-trailer. The truck driver was not hurt. Stark was seriously injured. All three were thrown from the car. All three were students at Springfield High School. They would have graduated in a few weeks. All planned to attend college.\tPart II\tFor the second part of this assignment, write a story using the information from Part I as well as the information obtained through your interviews. Consult Figure 11.1 in the\u00a0News Reporting and Writing\u00a0textbook to help you select the most appropriate news structure for your second story given the following information:\tSt. Regis Church is next to the school. Classmates reacted with great grief to the news that two of their classmates had been killed and one seriously injured. Many of them waited at the hospital where Colleen had surgery. She was still in critical condition.\tBrother\u00a0Mike Martin of St. Regis: “Donna Neal had to select her favorite hymns as part of a class assignment on funerals last fall. She selected “\ufffdBe Not Afraid,’ “\ufffdOne Body, One Bread,’ and “\ufffdOn Eagle’s Wings.’ Those songs will be sung at a memorial to her and Kane Monday morning. She Said, “\ufffdI want to be remembered as happy.’ That helped us pick out the songs and the readings. The saddest part of her\u00a0\tfuneral is the gospel reading. It’s about a widow asking Jesus to raise one of her children from the dead\u00a0and bring it\u00a0back to the family. Donna’s mother is a widow and has 13 kids.”\ufffd\tBrother Sidney Edmond: “I came in to grab a cereal bowl about 8 o’clock. One of the brothers said, “\ufffdI’ve got some bad news for you.’ It was instant denial. I started saying, “\ufffdNo, no.'”\ufffd\tThroughout the day, students came to visit with the brothers and to talk to them.\tThe class that Donna selected the hymns and gospel reading for was one on death and dying. Her teacher was Brother Martin.\tPart III\tWrite a one-paragraph response to the following questions:\t1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What kind of lead did you decide to use for the second version of the story? Why?\t2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How would your lead change if you were writing for web? Broadcast?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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