Today you will volunteer for your first News Story to appear in the Dispatch online. You will submit your top-5 choices today during class and I will assign them as you continue to work on the Huntington and Earthquake or Dispatch Issue #1, or anything else you are missing.
These stories will cover a club or organization on campus. I have narrowed down your options to around 30, but the good news is that each of these clubs has either asked for us to cover them, or have been responsive in the past. I hope that each of you gets one of your top-5 picks. For this assignment you could focus on what the club is and what happens when that club meets, you could write a story about a specific member of the club (most likely one of the student leaders) and focus on why the club is so important to them, or you could come up with a different angle. I will let you decide.
You will ABSOLUTELY need to go to a club meeting. You cannot do this without going to a meeting. Your first effort might be to contact the sponsor, but some sponsors are better than others about answering student reporter questions. You HAVE to go during the club meeting to get this story done. PERIOD.
You will do all of the same things you did for the fake "student of the month" story. ONLY this time it is real. You will need to write:
400-550 words
Minimum 3 sources - one sponsor and 2 students involved
LTQT style - with your attributions done correctly!!
NO EDITORIALIZING
You will be required to share your entire process including interview question writing, sourcing, interviews, rough draft and final draft. ALL ON THE SAME GOOGLE DOC.
First, go check out your options (If you are in a club not listed and you want to write about that club, please let me know):
Then go here to put in your top-5 choices:
This shared link is editable by ALL OF YOU, so please take your time and only type in the row next to your name. Give me the Club or Organization you would like to write a story about. BE CAREFUL!!
When I assign the story, I will let you know on this link:
Once you know what your story is, you will go into the Google Sheet above and do the following things:
1. Make a Google Doc, share it so that anyone with the link can EDIT. Copy the link and put it in the appropriate spot on the same line as your name. It should be CLICKABLE.
2. Figure out the Club Sponsors name and type it in the appropriate spot on the same line as your name.
3. Develop a question that you think should guide your writing for this story? This could be informing people about the club, it could be something you learn when you interview the club sponsor, or perhaps it could be about what the club is and what they do in the club. You need to determine this question. You will need to type it in the appropriate spot on the same line as your name.
4. Then you will need to find at least two students to interview. I expect you to type their names in the appropriate spot on the same line as your name.
5. Then it is up to you to get started. You will have one IN-CLASS work day on Oct. 26th to write, conduct interviews, etc. in class, it will be due on Nov. 14th and you will have that day to write as well. But you CANNOT do this in class alone. You will have to do some things outside of class. I will be able to help you along the way. You will have things to turn in on the two in-class workdays and I will make sure you have them in advance. Those will be part of the grade for this assignment.
Once you have made your 5 choices, please work on anything you are not done with.
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