The "One Thing" Week 12- "But news writing IS creative," said Young

This week, the "one thing" I learned was how to properly insert a quote into a news article. While I thought my article was sort of atrocious, you convinced me that it wasn't as bad as I thought, so that you. This is what I learned about using quotes in news articles: 

1. Before the quote, introduce who said it, then breifly summarize what the quote is going to say, without using any of the same words. 

2. The quote itself should be it's own graph (I did know this….just forgot to do it in my article) 

3. Even though you introduced the speaker before the quote, you still have to end with ,"said Soandso

Knowing all of this, the second draft of my article will be editied accordingly.  

The "One Thing" Week 11- Interesting Interview

For homework this week, we had to write a news article, and in that news article, we were required to have at least two quotes from people who we interviewed for the article. While doing this, I learned how much I love interviewing. The article included news from the locations of Erie, Syracuse and Buffalo, luckily for me, I knew individuals from each of those places, and was able to get great feedback for my article. While doing this, I also realized how much a few interview quotes can spice up a news article. I think this was a great assignment.

The "One Thing" Week 10- Lexie No Like Lead Writing

Our homework assignment for this week (Assignment #8) was writing more summary leads. From the previous lead writing assignment we had, I learned an import lesson. This week, the "one thing" that I learned is this; when writing leads, you must use complete sentences. I don't know why I, and so many of us in the class, instinctively went to "cave man talk" when writing these leads, but now we know the correct way to do it!

The "One Thing" Week 9- He Had Many Moneys

Being an ex-writng major, I pride myself in my ability to (most of the time) correctly use adjective and adverbs. However, during most of my education process, although I learned the rules, I didn't know these rules were, it was usually "just because." I was one of those things where didn't really matter if you knew why you were right, as long as you were right. With that being said, I don't believe I was ever officially taught the basic rules for using adjective, I just trusted my sense of "does it sound right?" I know that the Purdue OWL website has always been available to me, so if I really wanted to, I could have learned the official rules on my own, but I never did. After reading "The Basic Rules: Adjectives" article, I learned the technical terms for many concepts that I already knew. For example, it seems pretty obvious, but I didn't know the terms  "countable nouns" and "uncountable nouns" was a technical term,  for me it was always just "singular" or "plural." In addition to this, I had never sat down and read the rules for the use of individual adjectives. Obviously I knew that a sentence like "he had many moneys" was not grammatical, but I never would have been able to tell you the reasoning behind that is that "money" is an uncountable noun and the adjective "many" can only be used with countable nouns.