TAKE SMART BREAKS.
Even downtime can advance you toward your goals. Chen
reports that he plays the piano as a hobby. "I don’t have the
time to commit to playing an hour every day, but when I’m
tired of working I take a break and play the piano." While
Rahman does admit to watching TV from time to time, she
says that she usually takes breaks from homework to do tasks
required for her extracurricular activities. "If I have a block
where I’ve been studying for an hour, I’ll take 15 minutes and
browse through the yearbook pages," she says. Needless to
say, she has the whole yearbook staff on a schedule of
deadlines they’re all working toward meeting—to get yet
another big project done on time.e.
THE ULTIMATE LIST OF
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By Anita Wren
Photographs by Pat Santos
deadline environment means that
copy editing often takes the form
of deleting everything past an
arbitrary point in the story
corresponding to the dictates of
available space on a page.
Therefore, newspaper reporters are
trained to write in inverted
pyramid style, with all the most
important information in the first
paragraph or two. If the less vital
details are pushed towards the end
of the story, then the potentially
destructive impact of draconian
copy editing will be minimized.
AFRICAN SUMMER KIT
A news article can include
accounts of eyewitnesses to the
happening event. It can contain
photographs, accounts, statistics,
graphs, recollections, interviews,
polls, debates on the topic, etc.
Quoted references can also be
helpful. References to people can
also be made through the written
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