Week 3 – Editing Exercise
Headlines and Summaries
Read Chapter 6 inThe Complete Editor. Then completeExercise 6.5andExercise 6.12. Label each of the exercises and include them in one Word document.
For Exercise 6.5 you must:
For Exercise 6.12
Carefully review theGrading Rubricfor the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
Week 3 – News Story
Seeing is Believing
While we can easily become engaged in a print news story that is well-written and tailored for a specific audience the ability of television to show us the news is something that has given it the edge over print news media for decades. Traditional radio also provides us with the storytelling aspect where we may find ourselves sitting in the car hanging on to every word of a great news story. This week you will write a broadcast script for a television news story and for a radio news story. The television script and the radio script will both be designed for the delivery of a story that is 5 minutes in length.
Topic and Sources of Information:The issue that you choose to write about must be current and have some relevance for your local community city and/or state. You must derive the information for this story fromprint media only. You will need to read several print publications for mention of the story and take notes of the facts of the story from several national publications.
For this assignment you must:
Saving Your Work:To maintain the formatting of your work you are strongly encouraged to save your assignment as a PDF file. ViewSaving a Word Document as a PDFfor steps on how to do this.
Check it!Your print news stories must be submitted through Grammarly and Turnitin prior to submission.
Carefully review theGrading Rubricfor the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.