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Week 2: Ways of Reading and Writing the News

First, read about News Style: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_style

Next, read the following three news stories, all written about some of the same events in April of 2003:

• Gaurdian_Diyala.doc
• Marines_Battle_Their..>

• Peter Maas, "Good Kills," Sunday New York Times Magazine, April 20, 2003

For your posting this week (due before midnight on Sunday, Jan. 20), identify the types of writing in each of the news articles, and compare the different ways of writing about specific war events in each.

(Rewrite Assignment due Monday Jan. 28th.)