COM CO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Soft Media, Secondary Source, Pre-Medical
1 May 2018
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2018/3/20
JO: News-writing
You have a good story. Here’s how to tell it!
-Project: primary source/ secondary source!
•secondary source: newspaper, wikipedia, textbook!
•primary source for your research !
•don’t quote newspaper in final project!
•1 sentence: data!
•1 sentence: medically what happening, what’s happening, brain chemistry,
stretch to 2013!
I. structure. . .holds the story together = look at the lead
A. hard news (critical information)
1. e.g. Boston University GPAs have fallen an average of seven points in the past
decade, which one school official linked to increased marijuana use among
students
2. what when where why who how
3. LEAD - the first sentence : most critical information
4. each sentence is less important than the previous. So the reader can stop reading
at any time
5. inverted pyramid
6. critical news first
B. soft news/ features (writing for final project) (the lead starts to tell a story)
1. storytelling structure (opens with scene or anecdote, followed by
nutgraf)
2. nutgraf— one sentence; explains news relevance of anecdote (trend)
=nutshell paragraph
3. telling the trend: not the only one person, the same as hard news story lead.
4. The last name to use. Don’t use Dr. Supa, only Supa.
#1
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Document Summary
Project: primary source/ secondary source: secondary source: newspaper, wikipedia, textbook, primary source for your research, don"t quote newspaper in nal project, 1 sentence: data, 1 sentence: medically what happening, what"s happening, brain chemistry, stretch to 2013. So the reader can stop reading at any time. 3. telling the trend: not the only one person, the same as hard news story lead: the last name to use. #1: nutgraf answers the question why are you telling us the anecdote, the news relevance of the anecdote, one sentence states the news connecting the opening anecdote to the whole picture. I didn"t like the way it made me feel, but everyone else was doing it, so i did too. 3. the nal quote of the story, powerful words from the source. 4. typically re ects back to beginning, focus (nutgraf) Trish johnson has a tough decision to make: kick the marijuana or watch her dream of becoming a doctor go up in smoke.
