Thursday, November 20, 2008

11/20/08

Today, I want you to pick one article from any good news source (CNN, MSNBC, New York Times). It can be any article.Give me the 5Ws and H.What type of article is it?

"Scientists say Copernicus' remains, grave found"Article
Who?A female
Who is involved? 20 people and police officers.
Who does/did the situation affect? 20 people
Who said so? iraqi officials said

What?A females fuicide bomber blew herself up near and entrance to the u.s protected Green Zone
What is happening? She had a bomb
What did happen? she killed herself and 20 other people and later tree more people were killed.
What are the consequences? they kill peoples lifes
What is different about this? that first she killed people and then she kills her self so she wont face the consequenses.
What are the choices? nun because she died so they cant put her in jail.

When? Monday
When did or will this happen? It happened at 8 a.m.
When was this discovered? The day it happened.

Where? At Baghdad in a Green Zone
Where did or will this happen? At Baghdad
Why?Because she was just attacking with a bomb.
Why did this happen or will it happen? Because there just mean people.

How? there was a first attack on a bus and later on the second attack she blew herself up.
How did it or will it happen? She had bombs on the bus and all over her.
How much does it cost? this dont have a cost.
How many people does this affect? It affected many peoples lifes that were passed away.
How do you feel about this?i feel bad and mad beacuse i dont know why people do so many mean things and then they just kill themselves.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

11/18/08

Give a brief (2-4) sentences over the following sections:
REWRITTING:Hokusai, a Japanese artist stated that all the work he did before he was 65 isn't worth counting. He began to understand the construction of animals, planets, trees, birds,and other stuff when he was 73. He said some interesting things like"At 90, I will enter into the secret of things," he said.And also "At 110, every dot will live."

GETTING IT RIGHT_PART 1:This is about helping you to practice and how much more you can do with it and how to do it.So its just telling you and helping out on it.Reading aloud helps test to see if your sentences are too long or if your story makes sense and doesn't confuse people. Also avoid sentences with long dependent clauses, instead try using the subject-verb-object construction in most of your sentences.And it well help you better on it.

GETTING IT RIGHT -PART 2:
This is about how important it is to plan ahead and it also shows the value of organization and how to determine a factor of a good article.Write simple sentences and make sure your subject is close to the verb.All writers must always conform to the basic conventions of grammar, spelling and punctuation.


LIBEL:This shows you how easy you can commit this crime, even if its on accident theres no excuse. As well as the easy ways to prevent it from happening.Libel usually results from carelessness, exaggerated writing, statements of officials made outside privileged situations, inadequate verification or failure.


ETHICS:There are 5 standards to light the way of a newspaper work which are
1. Seek and report the truth fully and honestly.
2. Remain free of associations and activities that may compromise your integrity or damage your credibility.
3. Avoid harming others and yourselves and be compassionate of those who are hurt by your actions.
4. Avoid reporting what group you belong to.
5. Don't reveal any information about any relatives or someone you have a close relationship with.

Friday, November 7, 2008

11/7/08

Give a brief (2-4) sentences over the following sections:(Just click on links)
The writing process:
When writing you follow a pattern or some steps.These steps are steps that all successful writers follow, are gather(finding details), focus(main idea), order(place important facts in a logical order), draft(quick write), and revise(edit your draft to make it more powerful).These are the steps you need for a writting process.These are the same basic steps upon which this Web site is built (prewriting, writing and rewriting).


Getting Organized:
First you have to figure out the main points that will support your theme. Second decided how to tell the story. Third place the main points in a logical sequence.Fourth take a moment and plan the story from beginning to end. Fifth put the feq main topics impose order on the details you often fave when reporting ends. so its basically telling you how to do your article.


Story Structure:You have several options when it comes to the structure of your story.You can choose a chronical order were you put the events in the order they happend.But you can also use the news form which are the:the inverted pyramids, the narrative or the hourglass.But the mose popular structure for news stories is the inverted pyramid.

The news lead-Part 1:
A good news for the story or a play is based on one main idea.thats why its so important to decide to either focus on it or not.A well-focused article tells your reader that you worked from a plan.it also gives the reader a sense of completeness which is a sense that you know what you are doing.

The news lead-Part 2:These are the last 4 main leads for a story. There is a second type or lead that is used mostly on feature stories.It usually sets the scene or the mood of the story.The delay lead can be short like about two sentences or up to four paragraphs.It is important to include the theme statement somewhere high in the story usually in the first two paragraphs.Leads have to be honest.

The rest of the story:
The rest of the story is the middle and end.Number 1 the real strenght of your story will come for the detalis that back up the promise of the lead.Which its the background.In the middle of the story you will build a strenght of interest in a number of ways.The end of the story is the most important.

The tools of the trade:News writing is concrete and specific. News writing is front-loaded or top-heavy. The news writer makes meaning early with sentences that begin with subjects and verbs. It is tough and muscular and free of clutter, The good writer avoids this clutter with a meanness of attitude.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Barack Obama Wins Presidential Election

It's been about two years since the most historical presidential election's between Barack Obama and John Mccain.But yesterday November 4,2008 Obama won the election and is now the 44th President of the United States.Woo hoo as well as me i am happy that Obama won because i think hes a good president for America.People all over the world are either happy or mad that Obama won but we got a new president!Obama is gonna make alot of changes but we never know how those well affect us.But i think that Obama well make are future a good future.