Description
In this assignment, you will watch two different news broadcasts to see how a major story varies from report to report.
Objectives
• Describe various types of summaries and abstracts
• Discuss how to determine the contents of and objectives for various summaries
• Review how your audience impacts your summary format and content
• Explain the contents of news releases
• Explore different purposes for and formats of writing in the workplace.
• Describe various types of written communications within the workplace.
• Tailor a written piece to a specific, identified audience.
• Provide critical, effective feedback on a colleague’s work.
• Incorporate a reviewer’s changes into your own written pieces.
• Summarize concisely information from a larger document.
• Describe different types of summaries, including when each is appropriate.
Instructions
Listen to a television network newscast and to a later news update on the same story. Select one major story covered on the news and indicate which details from it were omitted in the news update.
• Include in your work why you believe the details were omitted.
• How did the omission of previous details change your perception of the news report?
• How can you apply this situation (altering previous communications) to a personal experience at work