COMM 209: Assignment for Monday

Take your notes from my "press conference" Monday, March 24, and the story you wrote to bring in Wednesday, and write the revised story for Monday, March 31. Consult the points we made in our class discussion Wednesday and today; the information box on organizing a story on page 47 in our textbook, and the "Kabob" story structure box on page 48. You can use my elaboration on, the one I call a "quote-kabob" story with the quote right after the lede; the rest strung along through the body like meat on a shishkabob and a "kicker" at the end. Think about saving your second best quote for last.

You can use the prototype we came up with in class Friday:

A crazed communications professor bored students to death Monday while defaming Bach.

Peter Ellertsen, of Benedictine University, compared writing for a newspaper to playing a ukulele. He feels that both are easy and difficult at the same time.

"If you expect too much out of a newspaper or a ukulele, you'll be disappointed," he said. "But you can do a lot with both."

Ellertsen was quoting media critic Ben Bagdikian, who said, "Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew Passion' on a ukulele."