V Login | UMGO × Discussions List - JOUR 201 6 X The Characteristics of News x ChatGPT X Paraphrasing Tool - QuillBot + x Assignment Helper | Online / x X € 1 C learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/1030013/discussions/List ... Try It #1 - Active vs. Passive Voice Every week when we cover a new skill, you'll have a chance to practice it before moving on to your graded assignment. To earn any credit for your Try It work, you will need to complete all elements of this exercise. Those are: · Read the week's assigned readings; . Write and post your Try-It exercise; . Critique at least two of the Try-It exercises posted by your classmates; and . Improve upon your own Try-It exercise by revising it at least once as a reply post(s) to your original post. Improve your exercise based on what you've read in the assigned readings, any feedback that you and/or your classmates receive and/or what you learn from your other class activities. Your written exercises must reflect your best efforts to understand the AP style rules and the professional journalistic conventions being taught in this class. Expect to revise your Try-It submission! Your critiques must be thorough, substantive, and potentially useful to everyone reading them, too. (To learn more about the value of these Try Its, please see this "Try-Its" post. Activity: Journalistic-style writing is supposed to be in active voice. This Try It focuses on identifying and changing passive voice verbs into active 89°F Sunny Q Search T myhp 9:05 PM 5/18/2024 PPRE V Login | UMGO × Discussions List - JOUR 201 6 X S The Characteristics of News x ChatGPT X Paraphrasing Tool - QuillBot x Assignment Helper | Online / + x X € 1 C learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/1030013/discussions/List ... Activity. Journalistic-style writing is supposed to be in active voice. This Try It focuses on identifying and changing passive voice verbs into active voice in news leads. It has several parts: 1. After reading Writing in Active Voice in the JOUR 201 Manual, this video can help you apply its concepts: W Revising: from passive to active ... Watch later Share Active: John led Sally ieve that as the only woman for him. X Watch on YouTube 2. For this Try It, select two of the sentences below and revise their passive voice structures into active voice. Try using the Hemingway app, Grammarly Blog's zombie test, or MS Word's grammar check program to verify that you've succeeded. Expect to revise your exercise after you receive feedback! 89°F Sunny Q Search L T myhp 9:06 PM 5/18/2024 PRE V Login | UMGC × Discussions List - JOUR 2016 X S The Characteristics of News × ChatGPT X Paraphrasing Tool - QuillBot + x Assignment Helper | Online / x X € 1 C learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/1030013/discussions/List n.b. You must use the sentences provided in this Try It. Do not try to complete this exercise using sentences you have selected from the news. Please post your finished work here by 11:59 p.m. Eastern time Saturday and include an explanation of what you changed and why. Your focus here is on the use of active voice, but don't hesitate to grapple with the other aspects of lead-writing that you have read about in the following assigned course content if you see the need: "The Characteristics of News," "The Central Point," and "News Lead Basics." 3. Post thorough, word-by-word peer reviews of at least two of your classmates' Try-It exercises, then engage your classmates in discussions about their exercises, critiques, or responses to critiques. Your critiques and your general discussion of each other's work should be completed each week by 11:59 p.m. Eastern time Tuesdays. 4. Revise your Try It. Review the assigned readings and any suggestions for improvement that you receive from your classmates and your instructor, especially those related to the Associated Press style rules, and rewrite your exercise. Post it as a reply to your original post by 11:59 p.m. ET Tuesday so that the versions can be compared. If your feedback suggests your grammar needs a touch-up, you can refresh your memory of basic English grammar rules with JOUR 201's grammar practice quiz under the ... 89°F Sunny Q Search T myhp 9:06 PM 5/18/2024 PRE V Login | UMGO × Discussions List - JOUR 201 6 X The Characteristics of News × ChatGPT X Paraphrasing Tool - QuillBot x Assignment Helper | Online / + x X € 1 C learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/1030013/discussions/List Derore you submit your Teviseu try Il. Your revisions -- there could be several -- should be posted as soon as possible for continued review and further revision as may be needed. Try-It activities typically will conclude by 11:59 p.m. Eastern time Tuesdays each week. You will not receive individual assignment grades for your Try-It responses; these are practice exercises, not tests of your skills. These Try Its, peer reviews, and revisions are designed to help you prepare for your graded assignments. However, they do count toward your weekly participation grades. You must complete all elements of these exercises by their deadlines to be eligible for full Try-It participation credit. Post your Try-It exercise as a reply to its initial post here in Discussions each week, so your classmates can see what you've come up with (and you can see theirs). TIP: It helps if you add your name to the subject line, creating your own "sub-thread" within this forum so that we can find and respond to your work, i.e., Try It #1 ~ Jones. TIP: Write your exercise in a Word document first. You should not post it here until you have thoroughly edited and proofread it, using your own eyeballs and brain backed up by the spelling- and grammar check functions in your Word. You might be surprised to learn: your eyeballs and brain connect better when you edit and proofread on paper! Objective: Proficiency at recognizing and changing passive voice into ... 89°F Sunny Q Search T myhp 9:07 PM 5/18/2024 PRE V Login | UMGC × Discussions List - JOUR 2016 X S The Characteristics of News × ChatGPT × Paraphrasing Tool - QuillBot x + x Assignment Helper | Online / X € 1 C learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/1030013/discussions/List Objective: Proficiency at recognizing and changing passive voice into active voice. Here are your exercise choices: 1. Three of the six people injured were hurt seriously enough in the earthquake to require transport to Hayward General Hospital by emergency responders. 2. An empty can of turpentine was found by firefighters in the alley behind the store. 3. Thomas Anthony of 101 Magnolia Street was arrested by the Harkensville police and charged with driving over the speed limit on Main Street. 4. The convicted murderer was walked to the electric chair at 5 a.m. by the warden after he was served a breakfast of steak and eggs. 5. After a vote of no confidence was taken by the Harkensville City Council, the mayor was forced to resign from office. 6. The man who was found dead near a dumpster in Springdale, Illinois, by a Pizza Hut employee had been stabbed multiple times. 7. The marathoners were greeted by an ecstatic crowd ringing cowbells and blasting horns as they entered Prospect Park. 8. A proposal to build 200 townhouses on Baxter Road was ... Juliana Roman 6 12 (12) 1 hour ago 89°F Sunny Q Search T myhp 9:07 PM 5/18/2024 PRE V Login | UMGC × Discussions List - JOUR 201 6 X The Characteristics of News × ChatGPT X Paraphrasing Tool - QuillBot x Assignment Helper | Online / x + X € 1 C learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/1030013/discussions/List ... 5. After a vote of no confidence was taken by the Harkensville City Council, the mayor was forced to resign from office. 6. The man who was found dead near a dumpster in Springdale, Illinois, by a Pizza Hut employee had been stabbed multiple times. 7. The marathoners were greeted by an ecstatic crowd ringing cowbells and blasting horns as they entered Prospect Park. 8. A proposal to build 200 townhouses on Baxter Road was endorsed by the Harkensville planning board Thursday. 9. A Massachusetts law that made it a crime to stand on a public road or sidewalk within 35 feet of an abortion clinic was struck down Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court. 10. Cypress City would be allowed to fluoridate its water under a ballot measure the will go before voters in November. 11. Authorization for the story was provided to the reporter after the editor was told there was enough money in the budget by the publisher. 12. It wasn't immediately clear whether there were additional fatalities, according to police. 13. A 17-year-old Monroe County girl who pleaded guilty in a drunken-driving crash that killed a Carmody woman was 89°F Sunny Q Search T myhp 9:07 PM 5/18/2024 PRE V Login | UMGC × Discussions List - JOUR 2016 X S The Characteristics of News × ChatGPT X Paraphrasing Tool - QuillBot x Assignment Helper | Online / + x X € 1 C learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/1030013/discussions/List ... publisher. 12. It wasn't immediately clear whether there were additional fatalities, according to police. 13. A 17-year-old Monroe County girl who pleaded guilty in a drunken-driving crash that killed a Carmody woman was sentenced Monday in juvenile court to 30 days of detention at the county jail and 500 hours of community service. 14. There are 27 schools that the school chancellor wants to close on the list. 15. A key figure in the D.C. tax scandal is among the 11 government workers charged by police in what is being called the biggest corruption scandal in the capital city's history. 16. More than $1 million in expenditures to a well-connected Republican consultant are being reviewed by Maryland's comptroller. 17. Two people were killed, including the operator of the crane, when a crane toppled onto a high-rise apartment building in the Upper East Side on Friday. 18. Three Palestinian students in Gaza hoping to pursue advanced degrees at American institutions this fall were denied their Fulbright scholarships by the State Department because Israel has not granted them permission to leave. 19. The federal government is considering allowing loaded, 89°F Sunny Q Search T myhp 9:07 PM 5/18/2024 PRE V Login | UMGC × Discussions List - JOUR 201 6 X S The Characteristics of News × ChatGPT X Paraphrasing Tool - QuillBot x Assignment Helper | Online / + x X € 1 C learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/1030013/discussions/List 18. Three Palestinian students in Gaza hoping to pursue advanced degrees at American institutions this fall were denied their Fulbright scholarships by the State Department because Israel has not granted them permission to leave. 19. The federal government is considering allowing loaded, concealed weapons to be carried by visitors in some of the national parks, wildlife refuges and monuments. 20. The voting rights of two men were restored by the Board of Elections yesterday, 20 years after they were stripped of them because they were found to be not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. 21. Super delegates were pressed Thursday by the two top Democrats in Congress to go public with their preferences for their party's next presidential nomination by the middle of the week. 22. Appointments to the court were approved by the Senate panel in a 12-11 vote taken as the hearing ended. 23. Four motorists were killed by automobile accidents over Memorial Day weekend. 24. With five seconds left in the game, an illegal time-out was called by one of the players. 25. To save time, the story was dictated to the rewrite desk by the reporter. ... 89°F Sunny Q Search T myhp 9:08 PM 5/18/2024 PRE V Login | UMGC × Discussions List - JOUR 201 6 X S × The Characteristics of News ChatGPT X Paraphrasing Tool - QuillBot + x Assignment Helper | Online / x X € 1 C learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/1030013/discussions/List In addition to posting your own exercise, you must critique the work of at least two of your classmates. Be specific about where you think their work could be improved and cite specific AP or grammar rules from the assigned course materials, then discuss generally what you're learning about the skills emphasized in this exercise. I recommend the sandwich method for your peer reviews: 1. Start by telling your classmates what you like about his or her lead. Be specific. Don't just write, "I like your lead." Write why, the "because" part of your reason for liking that lead. Consider using the optional Checklist for News Lead-Writing Exercises to help you review your classmates' work. 2. Then, give at least two specific suggestions about how your classmates can improve their leads. For example, if the lead contains a passive verb, tell the classmate which verb is passive and explain what that means. Suggest a way to change the sentence so it's active voice. If the lead has too many words, point that out and suggest the words you would remove to bring it under the 20-word limit. You will not get credit for merely complimentary posts. Please make your critiques useful so that they will truly help you and your classmates improve their writing -- in the process, you'll learn more about your own writing, too! Best practice: Before you submit your initial response to the discussion question, click "subscribe to this thread" beneath the 89°F Sunny ... Q Search T myhp 9:08 PM 5/18/2024 PRE V Login | UMGC × Discussions List - JOUR 2016 X S The Characteristics of News × ChatGPT × Paraphrasing Tool - QuillBot x + x Assignment Helper | Online / X € 1 C learn.umgc.edu/d2l/le/1030013/discussions/List 2. Then, give at least two specific suggestions about how your classmates can improve their leads. For example, if the lead contains a passive verb, tell the classmate which verb is passive and explain what that means. Suggest a way to change the sentence so it's active voice. If the lead has too many words, point that out and suggest the words you would remove to bring it under the 20-word limit. You will not get credit for merely complimentary posts. Please make your critiques useful so that they will truly help you and your classmates improve their writing -- in the process, you'll learn more about your own writing, too! Best practice: Before you submit your initial response to the discussion question, click "subscribe to this thread" beneath the message box. This way, you will receive and be able to respond immediately to notices that someone has commented on your remarks, which can help make these discussions more like conversations. And consider keeping track of suggestions for improvement to your writing with this optional error log. You can use it in your editing! Deadlines: Post your Try It by Saturday, then respond to your peer reviews to your classmates' posts and revise your own here by Tuesday, so that everyone has enough time to apply the feedback to the drafts of their first assignment. (Response required.) - 30 - ... 89°F Sunny Q Search myhp 9:08 PM 5/18/2024 PRE