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IWW Practice-W Exercise Archives
Exercise: Fictional non-fiction (Version 4)

These exercises were written by IWW members and administrators to provide structured practice opportunities for its members. You are welcome to use them for practice as well. Please mention that you found them at the Internet Writers Workshop (http://www.internetwritingwor kshop.org/).

Prepared by: Rhéal Nadeau
Posted on: Sun, 6 May 2001
Reposted on: Sun, 23 April 2001
Revised and reposted on: Sun, 4 February 2007
Revised and reposted on: Sun,  12 October 2008
Reposted on: 20 November 2013

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EXERCISE: From a classic work of fiction choose a single incident, and in 300
words or less rewrite the incident as a newspaper article.

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Follow the famous five W's of news writing. Tell us in the first paragraph who,
what, where, when, and why.  Then provide all the juicy details.

You might choose a scene from Romeo and Juliet to report to the Daily Planet,
or interview Jane Eyre about what it was like to see her Uncle Reed's ghost in
the Red Room.

To introduce your story, please let your reader know, in a brief sentence or two,
what scene you've chosen from what classic work.

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EXERCISE: From a classic work of fiction choose a single incident, and in 300
words or less rewrite the incident as a newspaper article.

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Critiquing Suggestions:

Is the newspaper format being followed?

Are the five W's covered in the first paragraph? Has this been done skillfully?

Was there enough of a hook in the first paragraph to pull you into reading on? If
so, identify the hook.


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