News Writing and Reporting
Quotes: Assignment No. 2
This assignment seems simple, but it’s
harder than it looks. The idea is to get you looking closely at quotes and to
work on your accuracy. You will need two pieces of paper to complete the
assignment. On the first piece of paper, do the following:
1) Define each of the following terms and
then 2) find two of each type of quote in a newspaper from a news story (that
is, from the news section of the paper. not sports or lifestyle or other
sections.) in either the Daily Breeze
or the Los Angeles Times or the Union. Once you find your examples, you
will then copy those quotes onto your homework exactly, simply by typing the
quote, word for word, from the paper, attribution and all.
a.
a direct quote
b.
a partial quote
c.
an indirect quote
On the second piece of paper, you
will attach the quotes that you copied above. You do this by cutting the quote
out and attaching it to the page using glue, tape or staples.
So when you are finished you will
have two pieces of paper that are stapled together. The first piece of paper
will have the definitions and the six quotes (with attributions) copied exactly
(typed by you) word for word from the original source. The second piece of
paper will have the actual quotes that have been cut out of the paper and
attached to the page. Please do not use
the online version of the paper. Use an actual newspaper.
Remember that all work must be
typed using Times New Roman 12-point font and double-spaced and adhere to MLA
formatting guidelines.
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