Week 13 News writing

Cleaning your Copy  Hand in your cleaned copies of Beat Story 1 & 2  I will only check that you considered the guidelines you familiarized yourself with through the course  i.e.- passive voice, grammar, AP style etc.

Group Work Class 1: 1-5, 9 Class 2: 7-9

McGraw-Hill Slide © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Class 2 - Grammar: Plurals and Possessives 4Instructions: Please correct the errors in the sentences below. Do not try to avoid the grammar issue by rewriting a sentence. Instead, try to keep the words in the same basic order, but correct the punctuation.  The car is the students’.  I saw your father at Ricks house.  The teacher’s asked the girl’s and boy’s to be quiet.  The Detroit Tiger’s baseball team dropped a doubleheader yesterday.  The mans son shoveled the walk.

McGraw-Hill Slide © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Class 2 - Grammar answers: Plurals and Possessives  The car is the student’s.  I saw your father at Rick’s house.  The teachers asked the girls and boys to be quiet.  The Detroit Tigers baseball team dropped a doubleheader yesterday.  The man’s son shoveled the walk.

McGraw-Hill Slide © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Beat Story #1  The story’s disadvantage  The story’s advantage  Consider everything and anything:  lead  nut graph  headline (if applicable)  quotes, attribution  AP style  Grammar, punctuation, redundancy, cliches, wordy sentences, passive voice, SVO sentences, and other stylistic elements.  Accuracy, fairness, and balance

McGraw-Hill Slide © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Beat Story #2  The story’s disadvantage  The story’s advantage  Consider everything and anything:  lead  nut graph  headline (if applicable)  quotes, attribution  AP style  Grammar, punctuation, redundancy, cliches, wordy sentences, passive voice, SVO sentences, and other stylistic elements.  Accuracy, fairness, and balance

1.The college alumna set an all-time record for distance traveled when he returned to the campus for a reunion (2). 2.The funds were divided between Ford, Carter and McCarthy (1) people took the test; another 20 refused (3). 4.My dictionary is my Bible (1). McGraw-Hill Slide © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. AP style practice

McGraw-Hill Slide © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. AP style practice answers  The college alumnus set a record for distance traveled when he returned to the campus for a reunion.  The funds were divided among Ford, Carter and McCarthy.  Ten people took the test; 20 others refused.  My dictionary is my bible.

Business  Make sure your address is in a visible location in your attachment.  Submit it as a landscape document (example).  Don’t forget your source’s contact info!  Do not send me an on Wednesday if you haven’t yet received your story feedback...you will get it.  If by Thursday’s class, no has arrived, then by all means, let me know.

Final Exam Proposal  1. Final Exam  2. Final Portfolio  3 new stories  Must be 3 different beats  words  2 human sources; various styles of quotes

Week 12 Assignments  Submit 2nd draft of Beat story #3  Deadline: Monday, June 10, 8 a.m.  Read Ch. 8  Sign up for conference  I will send an with the schedule.  First come, first serve basis.