2-3 paragraphs about each piece of writing.

Pitch Story
Introduction
The United Nations (UN) host numerous conferences each year in different places

around the world. These conferences comprise of different goals and agendas all depending

on the UN agency that is hosting the conference. This year, the United Nation agency called

the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) will be hosted by the South Korean

government for an international conference regarding future challenges and opportunities in

agricultural meteorology.

Process of Reporting, Writing

For this story, I will be interviewed the delegates from the WMO base in Geneva, who

will be attending this conference. In this story, I covered different angles. These are some of

the many angles I covered:

• Work position in WMO

• The goals and agenda of the conference

• The importance of the conference

• The amount of time that went into the conference preparation.

• Roles of each delegate (what each delegate is expected to contribute)

In addition to these different angles, I tied the entire story to how it was going to affect

Southwest Virginian Agriculture.

Editing and changes made between the original and final versions

I made several corrections between the original and final version of the assignment. I

made corrections pertaining to grammar, AP style, and SAE style. These areas were

particularly important to correct because it disturbed the general flow and the meaning in

which the story is giving out.

Another area that I made corrections was in the lead sentence as well as areas where I

added myself to the story. Although the point of the assignment was to include ourselves in

the story, for my story it wasn’t needed hence my interviews, and online source information

told the story. In addition to these corrections I made corrections related to the lead of my

story, this was important because my lead looked like a subheading which contained no news

value.

Government and Crime Story

Introduction

The government and crime story is a story where we had to look at one of

two controversial topics that are currently being discussed in the government.

The two stories we had a choice between was the minimum wage story and the

gun story. The story requires good insight and research about the topic you are

writing about. Although these stories are very controversial, we were not

allowed to talk aside while talking about these stories, because one is supposed

to look at the topic from a neutral perspective.

For this assignment, I choose the gun story.

Process of Reporting, Writing

For the wring and reporting part of this assignment, we had to get at least 3 inanimate

news sources, at least 2 inanimate government/scholarly sources and 2 interview sources who

have expressed in gun-related duties. For this assignment, I interviewed National Guard and
Emory & Henry professor Adamson, and my second interviewee was Assistant

Chief/Investigator Jerry O’Dell.

Editing and changes made between the original and final versions

Let me be honest; there was a lot of corrections to be done on this paper out of all the

papers I did this second half of the semester. One of the obvious areas I did a lot of

corrections in was in grammar, AP and SAE style. There were numerous areas where I forgot

to capitalize, add commas, so I corrected all of that.

Another area which I corrected was in the lead sentence. The lead in the original

version a summary lead sentence that was not needed for this type of assignment. But now

the lead contains one sentence with news value. In addition to this area of correction, I made

corrections regarding the angle of the story. This is because towards the end of the

government and crime story, the story angle in which I started with changed. So, to fix this, I

made added a phrase that connected both story angles as one. As well as this, I made a

general correction in the way I introduced my articles, which was key to the entire story

because these were the articles the reader can reference when looking for further insight

regarding guns in American society.

Obituary Story
Introduction

Out of all the stories we did this semester, the obituary was the most morbid yet. This

is because we had we write an obituary about a local VIP who is not dead yet. For this story, I

had the opportunity to write an obituary about President of Emory & Henry College, Jake

Schrum.
Process of Reporting, Writing

The interviewing process of this assignment was a bit trick y due to the fact you

couldn’t tell the person you're interviewing the real intentions behind your interview

because it would just make the person creeped out which will , in the end, affect the

amount of information you get from the person you are interviewing. In addition to the

interview, I got two sources about President Jake Schrum from the Bristol Herold

Carrier and from the Emory & Henry website.

Editing and changes made between the original and final versions

After the peer review session, we had in class on Thursday; I made several changes to

my original version. My first set of correction I made was within the areas of grammar. In my

original version of my assignment, I made several spelling mistakes, several sentence

fragments and several areas where I didn’t use correct SAE style phrasing. These changes in

grammar were essential because they determined the overall flow and impact of the obituary.

Another set of changes I made was in the placement of certain quotes. In my original

version, there were some quotes that I had some quotes that were placed in paragraphs which

they didn’t belong; this misplacement changed the overall meaning that the paragraph was

giving out. As well as quote changes that I had to make, I had to make changes in the

phrasing of some of my sentences. There were some sentences that I had to change the

connotation of the sentence from a negative connotation to positive one. This was essential

because in obituaries we must reflect the person we are writing about as positively as we can.