What's your Story?

We're working on our story assignments this week. What's your story?


Assignment:
Tell us what you're working on and how it's going. What's a good quote that'll be showing up in your story? Include some discussion about your sources, too. Your post should be at least 200 words. Due date: by the end of Tuesday, March 28.

What's in the News?

What's in the news these days that's attracting your interest? Pick a couple of stories from the period March 9-March 16 and tell us why they interest you.

Assignment: Discuss the stories themselves, and also how they're presented. Here are some points to help get you thinking:

• What website or print publication do the stories appear in?
• Where on the page exactly are they?
• How would you describe the writing style?
• Do the stories have ancillaries and talkback features like comments? What do these add to the story?

Your post should be at least 300 words. Due date: Tuesday, March 21.

Describe a Scene

We've been reviewing and discussing news items, and reading about various ways to organize observed information.

We've also been discussing the way media producers and writers rely on observation and personal tastes, to get ideas across.

Assignment: Take notes observing people in action and what they say. Post a narrative description of a particularly interesting or colorful exchange or conversation you witnessed or participated in. Set the scene: note when and where this happened, and who the people were, why this occurred (or why you think it did) and whatever other details help to bring the scene to life, including any dialogue you consider interesting or useful. Don't just list the events you've observed—organize them thoughtfully, to interest the reader.

Your post should be at least 300 words long. Due date: by the end of Thursday, March 16.