Feature Writing : Witch Albom On Writing
1. Mitch Albom was at Brandies University in the spring of 1979 . Sixteen years after his graduation fromBrandies Mitch is feeling frustrated with the life he was chosen to live. After his uncle dies of pancreatic cancer Mitch abandons his failing career as a musician to become a well paid journalist for a Detroit newspaper. Mitch promises his wife Janine that they will have children eventually , though he spends all of his television and recognizes Morrie's voice. Morrie is being featured on the televison program "Nightline " in the first of three interviews with Ted Koppel, whom he quickly befriends.
2. LEADS
Unless you're writing hard news for a daily newspaper or regularly-updated website , the summary lead just doesn't reel in readers. You need to take a more creative approach. Consider this summary lead.
MIDDLES
Middles are the parts where they tell more about the story and you're hooked to the story and you beginning to like the story.
I don't understand this response, Alexus.
ReplyDeleteThe first paragraph is part of a biography you found on Mitch Albom somewhere. It does not summarize the article at all but rather talks about his life (which isn't discussed in the article).
The part on leads is cut and pasted from a different website:
calgarycommunities.com/content/wp-content/.../Types-of-Leads.doc. It's good information, but it's not from the assigned article. Worse, you cut and pasted it instead of writing something in your own words.
Then for the last part, you copied the same biographical paragraph that is not in the article instead of doing the assignment.
What is going on here? Are you having trouble reading the articles? Let's talk about this so we can figure out what you need to do to be successful reading and responding because it's a problem.
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