Nicole Abadi COMM 320-Newswriting Professor Da Silva Workshop #2 September 15th, 2020 Kinds of Leads for News Reporting 1) Straight Lead ’26 year-old, American swimmer and famous Olympic champion, Sam Keefer, while surfing in Nazaré, Portugal last week September 7th at 8:30 am, was killed by a white shark.’ • • • • • Who? Sam Keefer What? He was killed by a white shark Where? In Nazaré Portugal When? September 7th at 8:30 am How? He was surfing 2) Anecdotal Lead ‘At the funeral of Koby Bryant held on February 7th, 2020 in the Pacific View Memorial Park in Corona Del Mar, California, there was a mysterious man dressed up as if he was one of Kobe´s relative, the only thing was that nobody knew him. He tried stealing Kobe´s daughter´s Rolex, but he was immediately stopped by the California Police and is now under investigation.’ • • • • • Who? Mysterious man What? The man tried stealing Kobe´s daughter´s Rolex Where? At Kobe´s funeral in California When? Fbruary 7th, 2020 How? He dressed up as if he was one of Kobe´s relatives to fit in and nobody would notice. 3) Scene Setting Lead ‘On the third floor of the Louvre Museum in Paris, a remarkable oil painting by the French painter Théodore Géricault will be hanged two meters away from the Monalissa. About 100 historians will attend to this inauguration that will be held on October 15th, 2020.’ • • • What? A famous painting will be hanged in the Museum Where? At the Louvre Museum in Paris When? October 15th, 2020 4) First Person Lead ‘For many of us, the end of the year 1989 and beginning of the year 1990 was a major heartbreak for the country. On these days we remember all the people who died during the Invasion and all the businesses who were destroyed and robbed. I will never forget the sound of the bombs next to my house.’ • • • What? The Panama Invasion. People died during and businesses were destroyed. Where? In Panama City When? The end of the year 1989 and beginning of the year 1990 5) Question Lead ‘Some studies show that uncontrolled use of Instagram can result in negative effects, but how can it really affect users?’ Purchase answer to see full attachment Explanation & Answer: 2 pages Tags: Straight lead Anecdotal lead scene setting lead User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following our company’shonor code & terms of service.

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered throughout the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it’s a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.

BASIC IN-TEXT CITATION RULES

In MLA Style, referring to the works of others in your text is done using parenthetical citations. This method involves providing relevant source information in parentheses whenever a sentence uses a quotation or paraphrase. Usually, the simplest way to do this is to put all of the source information in parentheses at the end of the sentence (i.e., just before the period). However, as the examples below will illustrate, there are situations where it makes sense to put the parenthetical elsewhere in the sentence, or even to leave information out.

General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1) upon the source medium (e.g. print, web, DVD) and (2) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry on the Works Cited page.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS: AUTHOR-PAGE STYLE

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author’s last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author’s name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

IN-TEXT CITATIONS FOR PRINT SOURCES WITH KNOWN AUTHOR

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.