JOUR 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Being Boring, Hypnosis
28 Aug 2018
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The most important step is making the topic fresh, dramatic, colorful and exciting. You need people who are going to be original. You can do this by using different angles, people, etc. This is even more important in magazine writing, where many feature stories are published. Shop the story around and hope someone will buy it. Common mistakes: writing with what youre familiar with, broad topics with no hook or angle, failing to research properly or source it well, writing without anecdotes, being boring (passive voice, run on sentences etc) Ex-burglar tells how to burglar proof your home. Do(cid:374)"t (cid:271)u(cid:455) these e(cid:454)tra features (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed. On campus, an example of this would be bsu playing notre dame for the first time. News peg is that it"s (cid:374)e(cid:448)er happened before. Just (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ged (cid:373)eal pla(cid:374)s to (cid:449)here (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e to use the(cid:373) at a (cid:272)ertai(cid:374) ti(cid:373)e.
