Investigative Journalism
Headline, Subhead, Byline, ???, Explanation, Extra / Conclusion.
What is a New Article Structure?
Bonus 1: What's the missing step?
Bonus 2: What is a Headline, Subhead, and Byline?
This sets in motion a larger chain of events (i.e. an event that sparks a new belief or a change in belief).
What is an Inciting Incident?
Bonus: What is a belief about the world that guides how you act?
Benchmark
A standard or point of reference against which things may be compared.
The event that is most immediately responsible for causing something.
What is the Proximate Cause?
Bonus: How many proximate causes can a single event have?
This type of _____ has no specialized or expert knowledge.
What is a lay audience?
Open-Ended, Close-Ended, Follow-Up.
What are three types of interview questions?
Bonus: Define each type of question.
A short narrative that supports or illustrates a larger idea.
What is an Anecdote?
Bonus: Describe a vignette.
Corrosive
A change or new idea in one domain triggered by an idea (or cluster of ideas) in a different domain.
What is the hummingbird effect?
2. Justifying your design to show how its intended to gather the data you need.
What is a methods section?
Anything that gives evidence is a _______, but _______ can vary greatly in how knowledgeable and reliable they are.
What is a Source?
Bonus: What are some ways in which you can verify sources?
A thing (like an object, action, or location) within a story that stands for a specific abstract concept.
What is a Symbol?
Bonus: What do you call something (usually a symbol) that repeats in different contexts throughout a story to help develop the main idea?
Optimal
Best or most favorable.
The phenomenon where one small event leads to dramatic and unpredictable second-order effects.
What is the butterfly effect?
Bonus: describe a second-order effect of this chain of events:
Initial: A new smartphone is invented.
Proximate: People use the phones and talk about them online.
Second-Order: ???
What does an Introduction section need to do?
1. Introduce the field of study.
2. Establish (clearly and precisely) the question being investigated.
3. Engage interest by demonstrating why the field and question are interesting / important.
A sentence needs to tell you _______'s happening, and _______ or _______ is doing it, to be complete.
Bonus: Tell us what word this sentence defines.
What is a predicate?
Bonus 1: What is it called if either the subject, or the predicate is missing?
Bonus 2: What if they're both there, but the phrase isn't a complete thought?
These are two organizational strategies that we uses when writing our Personal Essays.
What are moment-to-moment and thought-to-thought?
Bonus: Briefly describe each one.
Ambient
Of the surrounding area or environment.
The history and background.
The invention itself.
The immediate effects.
The long-term effects.
A connection to today.
What is the documentary structure that we followed in class?
One collects raw data while the other interprets the data collected.
What are the Results and Discussions sections?
Bonus: Why do scientists separate these?
This word describes another way of saying "improvisational speaking."
What is extemporaneous speaking?
These are some reasons why you would want to use the Passive Voice (subject is being acted upon: the banana was eaten by the monkey).
When you don't know (or want to hide) who did the action. "The paper was moved."
When you want to emphasize the person or thing the action was done to. "They were hurt when their partner broke up with them."
When your subject can't actually do anything. "Francis was hurt when he fell into the trees."
Sterilize
One is text that reports exactly what was said, while the other identifies who or what said something.
What is direct speech and reporting clauses?
Bonus: Which is which?
These are some goals of slide design.
1. They enhance the script, not distract from it.
2. They develop your ideas, not feel disconnected.
3. They include visual elements with minimal text.