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Beginning Journalism

Learn how to write effective leads in journalism. Correct weak leads and practice writing movie summary leads. Improve your lead writing skills.

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Beginning Journalism

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  1. Beginning Journalism September 22, 2011 Agenda: *Continue Lead Exercises -- Summary Leads *Correcting Weak Leads *Lead Writing Practice *Current Events Round-up…

  2. Learning Targets • By the end of today… • I will be able to write a lead on my own with provided information. • I will be able to list two things to avoid in lead writing

  3. Movie Summary Leads • Each table will receive one of the 5Ws or H. • You will write a summary lead that starts with one of the 5Ws or the H. • You will draw a movie title out of a basket -- spend 1 minute in your group transforming this movie into a NEWS story. (Write down the 5Ws and H.) • Now…write a lead for that movie. • You will read your lead and the class will GUESS which movie you wrote about…

  4. Correcting Weak Leads • Things to avoid: • More than one sentence • Starting with the least-important information • Passive voice • Editorializing (no opinions!) • Wordiness

  5. Correcting Weak Leads, cont. • Look at your handout. • We’ll do the first one together. • Take a minute to assess the lead. Make corrections to the lead based on your weakness list. • How would we re-write it?

  6. CWL, cont. • What’s wrong with this lead? • More than one sentence • Passive voice (will be) • Starting with the least important information

  7. New lead: • Lincoln School is extending their school day by fifteen minutes after Board Members voted last week to add a seventh period class to the school day. • Still weak: “Last week” -- but we’ll deal with that later… :-) • It’s okay to GET RID of unnecessary information. (No room number; save the vote until your nut graf.)

  8. You try! • Tackle #2 as a group…

  9. Now try it again… • See if you can rewrite lead #3 on your own…

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