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Like in any writing sentences are important. Long sentences can be too convoluted and become less readable. The trick is to know how to shorten long sentences and turn them into functional components that are simple. This is exactly what we will be looking at this week in the fourth chapter of Cappon’s The Associated Press Guide to News Writing : The Case for the Period. This chapter focuses on the importance of directness for sentences in news writing. Cappon admits that there is not really a limit on how many words make a perfect sentence. Cappon states that when a sentence length climbs above 20 words the writer risks making the sentence convoluted to the readers. However, he does believe the sweet spot length of a sentence is about 16 to 20 words.   Cappon again tells the reader the importance of creating a transparent message in their writing. This time he does it by expressing the importance of having short sentences that get straight to the point. Cappon succeeds i...

For every news story there is a lead. It is one of the most important parts of a news story. It is the hook that lures the reader into the story. This is exactly what we will be looking at this week in the third chapter of Cappon’s The Associated Press Guide to News Writing: Leads: The Agony of Square One. This chapter focuses on the importance of leads. Cappon states that a lead must be clear and specific. Cappon compares a lead to a speech, in that it shouldn’t mumble. A neews lead must be loud and clear, so it can speak directly to the reader and captivate their attention. Cappon shows a lot of examples in what are good and bad news leads in this chapter. Again, in this chapter we see that Cappon stresses the importance of simplicity and clarity in news writing. Cappon succeeds in teaching the reader the importance of writing good news leads in this chapter. Cappon also succeeds in continuing his overarching message in his book within this chapter. Overall this was an exce...

For a reporter to report effectively you need more than just information. This week will we be looking at chapter 2 of Cappon’s The Associated Press Guide to News Writing : Information Is Not Enough. In this chapter Cappon talks about how reports made by journalists need to be not only reliable but also compelling enough to withstand the competition of the news industry. Cappon writes that reporters need to make stories simple, concise and most of all include only the important details. Stories must not contain fluff they need to get straight to the point and the heart of the story. Much like in the last chapter Cappon conveys the importance of sentence structure and the importance of having a transparent message. The second chapter of the Associated Press Guide to News Writing is a follow-up to the first chapter. It continues the message Cappon stated in the first chapter in that all news writing should aim for simplicity and directness. Cappon continues that message by expa...

The Be an Editor Game is a simulation game on Newsu.org. The game is to help give you the feel of what it is like to be a managing editor for a newspaper. The game is an interactive video. that is pre-recorded with actors who are acting as section editors. Yours job in this simulator is to listen to the pitch of each section editor and choose two of the best stories from the four sections to put into your news budget for the next newspaper.  The game itself is rather easy. The game tells you what your audience is and what they want. So as an editor in this simulator you want to choose the big head turner stories. On my first try I got the two best story choices when I published the article. It was a no brainer that the top story choices in the simulator would be the Fire at the Cheese Factory and  the Johnson Dam Water Rising. The game while easy does a good job of conveying how the workplace of a newspaper office would be like. While the acting of the section editor...

There’s a lot of things that go into journalism. The third edition of the Associated Press Guide to News Writing by Rene J. Cappon serves as a guide to journalists. The purpose of the guidebook is to teach the reader to write like pros at leading news services. We will be looking at each chapter each week to review and critique Cappon’s book. This week we will be starting with chapter 1 of the book: Language: Pompous, Pedantic and Plain. The chapter starts off as an introductory chapter of sorts. It tells you what Cappon has planned inside the guide and what the reader can expect to learn from Cappon. In the chapter Cappon addresses the importance of sentence structure and how it is important for the reporter to have a transparent message in their writing. The reason behind this, is so the common reader can understand what is being reported in a straightforward and effective way. The overarching message that Cappon wants to convey in his book is that all news writing should ai...

            As a kid, I grew up playing fighting games. I grew up on games like Soulcalibur II, Super Smash Bros. Melee, the Dragon Ball Z Budokai series, the Naruto Ninja games, and the  arcade classic Marvel Vs. Capcom 2. There’s a ton of fighting games I played as a kid, these are only the tip of the iceberg of what I played. In each new installment in fighting franchises I always looked forward to seeing new rosters of characters and the surprises of who would be the unlockable characters in the games.             Nowadays, fighting games hardly have unlockables, they hardly even have unlockable characters who aren’t gated by DLC. The new Super Smash Bros. that came out on the 3DS and the Wii U greatly pleased me that it had unlockables and unlockable characters, but then there came DLC characters. The difference with this was, Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of th...

“Madness Will Consume You!” I’ve been playing World of Warcraft’s new expansion Legion since its Launch, not nonstop of course. Blizzard unlocked the Emerald Nightmare raid for us, the players this week. So I fought Il'gynoth earlier this week, and his whispers were very fascinating to speculate about. And I wanted to express my thoughts about it. I talked to a friend of mine about possible lore ideas for this character and the things he talked about. Most of them were similar to what was in the video that Nobbel discussed. We concluded that the 5th old could possibly be Azeroth. In C'thulu mythos there is a being called Azathoth. Sounds like Azeroth right? One of Il'gnyoth's whispers is, "Her heart is crater and we have filled it." Some speculate this to be Jaina since Theramore went kaboom. However, what if the crater is the hole where the old gods reside and they now fill Azeroth, are now the planet? Many of the whisper elude to tha...