1. Business English Writing Jason Downs Week 12, November 20, 2015 Business & Economics Journalism - Editorials

2. A few more notes about problems on Midterm #1  Starting sentences with “and” or “but”  “foreign friends”  “businessman/businessmen”

3. More information on writing news articles – and problems with your Writing Assignment #4  The difference between a news article, and editorial, and an advertisement/press release  PAST tense for the article, PRESENT tense for headlines  Inappropriate use of 1st/2 nd -person pronouns

4. Share your Writing Assignment #5 with your partner  Read over your partner’s writing.  Make any edits or suggestions as needed and provide feedback on their writing.

5. Share your responses to the reading with your partner  Read over your partner’s response to the homework reading assignment.  Make any edits or suggestions as needed and provide feedback on their writing.

6. Editorials  An editorial is a piece that is written for a newspaper, magazine, or news website, that takes a particular point of view  It usually expresses the author’s or the newspaper company’s opinion about an issue  It is NOT meant to be read as a “straight” factual report  Usually the editorial section of a newspaper is clearly differentiated from the news section, but not always – so be careful!

7. Writing Assignment #6  You choose one of the following two options: Do some research and find a company that has been having problems recently. Write a newspaper editorial that takes a point of view as to what the company should do to improve. Write a newspaper editorial about the Chinese economy. What new or different policies should the Chinese government take to encourage more economic growth?

8. Homework  Complete Writing Assignment #6 (Week 12)  Read & study textbook ch. 22-24 (pg. 235-263)  Read text on class website for Week 13 and write your response to the text NOTE: THIS IS A VERY, VERY, VERY LONG ARTICLE, SO DON’T WAIT UNTIL THE NIGHT BEFORE!!! YOU HAVE A WHOLE WEEK, SO USE IT!