For your sixth journal assignment, I want you to compose a detailed outline of your investigative report/profile/proposal using the structure we discussed in class. For each section, I want you to give me 1-2 sentences which state what you are going to do, what anecdotes you might want to include, whose voices you may include, what quotes you'll want to use, and what data will be relevant to the section. This is intended to help you organize the research you've been doing since last week. If you don't have your reporting done, then you may write information you hope to include in each section -- maybe you have an interview scheduled for Wednesday and you know what questions you will ask and, maybe, where you'll put that information in your paper. Here's the structure I want you to use as your road map:
1. Opening Scene
2. Illustrative quote that will conclude your scene
3. Nut Graph: This is where you have to tell me what you are writing about, why it's interesting, and why I should care.
4. Background: Give your issue/subject context. Let me know how this issue started.
5. Supporting Information 1: quotes? data? anecdote? what is your point and how does it relate to the issue?
6. Supporting Information 2: quotes? data? anecdote? what is your point and how does it relate to the issue?
7. Supporting Information 3: quotes? data? anecdote? what is your point and how does it relate to the issue?
8. Conclusion: Wrap-up your story. What would you like your audience to consider as a result of reading this piece? What relevant future issue could you point to?
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