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Journalism 101/201 (Wednesday, April 12 - 5th period)

"Hello, boys and girls," Rita said. "Today, we look at structure. Please take a look at the paper, and read through the articles. There are a few instances of not only poor grammar, but bad journalistic structure. Given that we're on a word count when we write for a newspaper, we need to conserve space and say things with the utmost clarity and fewest words. So take a look at the paper. Is this accomplished?"
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Re: Read the paper and so on!

[identity profile] emo-padawan.livejournal.com 2006-04-13 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
Anakin blinked. "Okay, that was interesting," he said. "I can't do that."

Re: Read the paper and so on!

[identity profile] imanaturalblond.livejournal.com 2006-04-13 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Simple Banishment charm," Rita said, shrugging. "I have no idea where it went. For all I know, it's in a closet on the sixth floor. But it's not here and that's the important thing."

Re: Read the paper and so on!

[identity profile] emo-padawan.livejournal.com 2006-04-13 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Anakin hoped rather fervently the slime wasn't waiting for him in his room. "Interesting," he said, turning back to the papers and frowing again. "And I don't really understand the point of the defense articles," he said.

Re: Read the paper and so on!

[identity profile] imanaturalblond.livejournal.com 2006-04-13 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
"How so?" Rita asked, raising an eyebrow. "They seem to serve a purpose, at least."

Re: Read the paper and so on!

[identity profile] emo-padawan.livejournal.com 2006-04-13 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
"You can't learn defense from three articles in the student paper," Anakin said, wrinkling up his nose. "And some of this stuff will get an inexperienced fighter hurt."

Re: Read the paper and so on!

[identity profile] imanaturalblond.livejournal.com 2006-04-13 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
"But you don't think they might pique a reader's interest, and make them want to learn enough to actually defend themselves well?" Rita asked.

Re: Read the paper and so on!

[identity profile] emo-padawan.livejournal.com 2006-04-13 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
"It might," Anakin said slowly, "but I'm concerned about beings who might consider the article enough information to be able to fight a snow monster or a vampire with. And it's very much not."

Re: Read the paper and so on!

[identity profile] imanaturalblond.livejournal.com 2006-04-13 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Then isn't that a sort of weeding out process?" Rita said. "If they're dim enough to think that's enough, perhaps it's - what's the term...natural selection."

Re: Read the paper and so on!

[identity profile] emo-padawan.livejournal.com 2006-04-13 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
Anakin thought about it. "Leads to a lot of paperwork," he said.

Re: Read the paper and so on!

[identity profile] imanaturalblond.livejournal.com 2006-04-13 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
"True, but their personal accountability. Not the writer's fault if their readership is stupid."

Re: Read the paper and so on!

[identity profile] emo-padawan.livejournal.com 2006-04-13 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Anakin smiled. "I'll have to remember that."

Re: Read the paper and so on!

[identity profile] imanaturalblond.livejournal.com 2006-04-13 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
"It's a good policy," Rita said, going back to reading the paper.
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