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Part 1
Using the information in the Las Vegas sheriff’s report on pp. 482-483 in Fedler, write a 200-250-word news story. You must write a summary news lead and use inverted pyramid style.
Part 2
Using information you find from official, credible online sources or by calling the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, write a 100-word news sidebar that reveals missing persons information for the Las Vegas area. Attribute the information to your source. Enhance this sidebar with relevant hyperlinks.
Some tips for success:
Story 2 has three parts: 1) a news story based on the assigned Fedler scenario; 2) a brief sidebar, which you’ll find instructions for elsewhere in this week’s conference topics; 3) Web enhancements (also described elsewhere this week).
Your news lead should contain no more than 20 words and a single sentence. Write it in the active voice. Include the most important detail of the story.
Answer this question in the lead: What happened today? Who-did-what-when?
Write the story in inverted pyramid style. Start with the most important detail. Each paragraph should include the story’s next-most important detail. The last paragraph should be unimportant. If you don’t know what inverted pyramid style is, you haven’t read the Week 4 conference topics. Please prepare yourself for Story 2 by reading and learning the instructions, rules and tips in the Weeks 1-4 conferences, and your textbook chapters.
Remember: Every paragraph should have something to do with the ones before and after it. Ask yourself: What does this sentence have to do with the one before it? If you can’t pinpoint the relationship, you’ve got your paragraphs in the wrong order.
If you use a quotation, make sure it is a direct quote. You may not put quotation marks around anything that you cannot attribute to an individual. If the scenario does not have quotation marks around a sentence, do not add them. It is inaccurate (and a serious journalistic offense) to enclose paraphrased material in quotation marks. Be sure to follow the rules for punctuating quotations outlined in Module 2.
Do not offer any opinions or draw any conclusions. Do not wrap up the story in the last paragraph. Avoid adjectives; most are value-laden.
Delete any unnecessary words. Your goal: economy of language. Write short, simple words, short paragraphs, short sentences. (But try not to make your writing choppy.)
Do not copy any wording from the scenario in Fedler. Use your own words. The authors deliberately wrote the scenarios in horrible form so you would have to figure out how to clean it up.
Look up all style points in the AP Style Book.
Check spelling and grammar. Proofread for typos. A typo costs you as much as a misspelled word.
Make sure your facts are absolutely accurate. Do not add or assume anything that’s not there in black and white.
Spell names correctly. You will find all names used in the Fedler scenarios in the back of your textbook in the city directory. You’ll lose a full letter grade for a misspelled name.
Write literally. Avoid misplaced modifiers.
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