Extra Credit Assignment 5

There are a few parts to this. I will make it worth 9 points, 3 for each section. To get any credit, you at least have to complete Part 1. Due: Friday, March 19, 2010.

Part 1: Journalist Interview Prep

**For the journalist interview you don't have to write it like a regular news story. You can just do a Q&A. (It's probably easier.) If you don't know how to format it, let me know.

1. Look up an interesting journalist or two. (Could be an editor, blogger, columnist, etc.) Try to pick people you think you could interview. (Preferably in-person, if not, then by phone.)

2. What is the journalist's name? Indicate where this person works and what type of journalist he or she is. (E.g. Television reporter for WGN in Chicago, Illinois) (Try not to pick journalists in the Champaign area!)

3. Give me three interesting pieces of background information on this person.

4. If you were to do a story (Q&A or regular) what would the focus be? Try to think of an original idea. For example, don't make your focus: how this person became a journalist, etc. Make it relevant and interesting to your reader.

Part 2: Speech story 2

(If you don't feel comfortable putting this online that's fine. If not, give me a hard copy or e-mail me.)

1. Read over your story and read my comments. What do you need to work on most?

2. Look at the questions you answered about improving your last paper. (I handed this back with your papers and grades.) Did you apply the improvements you wanted to make, on your second paper?

3. Are any of the criticisms unclear? If so, which?

4. Do you have any questions about how to fix any of your mistakes?

Part 3: Style

1. How are you supposed to attribute a student? For example, "Do you attribute like this?" Brittney Henton, said. (What two things do you include in a student's title?)

2. If someone doesn't use grammar (tense, subject-verb agreement, etc.) correctly or leaves out a word, how do you fix it in the quote? (Fix this quote. Hint: you have to use parentheses.)

"When people talk, sometimes they jibber on about things, you know, don't think about whether she's saying the sentence correctly," Henton said.

3. How would you use an ellipsis in the previous sentence to leave out the "you know"?