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article writing style !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Emmy Award-winning television journalist Alicia Nails, who teaches Reporting

on Race, Gender and Culture at Wayne State University, says she expects
students to write all assignments with pure objective writing and without
stating any opinions that highlights the writers point of view.

Nails says the class focuses on the most sensitive issues in our society race,
gender, and culture(s).

This courses focuses on objective writing, Nails says, because the issues
discussed in this course can be sensitive. put this earlier

This is not an English or creative writing course, Nails says. Assignments are
marked down when your point-of-view is evident in your word choice, because
the entire point of this course is that no one should know your opinion.

Nails says students should write articles using multiple sources to avoid
subjectivity from one news source. multi-source quote in Guidelines

Class assignments require the use of Objective news reporting, not columns,
editorials or other opinion pieces. From mainstream publications that are
intended for the mass audience therefore, no credit for assignments point-of-view
of advocacy media.

This courses focuses on objective writing, Nails says, because the issues
discussed in this course can be sensitive. put this earlier

Nails says niche publications should not receive the same level of credence as
mainstream publications because niche publications tend to have an evident
point-of-view.

She says its important for outsider voices to speak for themselves. [needed
transition]

As diverse groups speak for themselves, [there can be] assumptions around
normative and noticing their deconstruction; marginalization, and framing of
outsider voices.

To avoid writing subjective writing, Nails says to

tools: separate sentences, underline attribution, employ sentence math in
Guidelines

thats to avoid plagiarism >>> use quotation marks or note the article with clear
attribution to the source of the words.

If a journalist is only quoting others without adding any personal creativeness,

Katy Cowan from The Guardian says try to add a summary in your first
paragraph, including where your arts organization is based, the company name

and the angle of the story to make sure the writer is including all the
information.

According to Brian S. Books, James L. Pinson, and Jean Gaddy Wilson from the
authors of Working with Words, adjectives can convey unintentional bias.

Journalists should be careful with the use of adjectives and adverbs in hardnews reporting, Working with Words reports. Modifiers are one of the most
common ways bias creeps into a news story.

Working with Words reports that journalists prefer to use said and says to other
attributions because of the words brevity and neutrality.

The Emmy Award winner says journalists should consider various fairness
elements when gathering news and reporting on others. She said students
should consider language use, story, source and expert selection, and the
importance conveyed by the storys placement on the page or within the newscast
rundown.

To practice writing objectively, Nails says each student brings in one panelist
from a specific culture to speak about the culture they can relate to. She said
there are about five panel discussion and each discussion is comprised of about
four to five people so the journalists can grasp an understanding on each culture.
The final project allows students to work as a journalist, interviewing newsmakers:
Selecting someone to sit on a panel of speakers; inviting them to class; facilitating
this on location interview, including logistics and introduction to hone skill-set.

These panel presentations are valuable opportunities to hear directly from the
members of cultural groups, Nails says.