After reading about an accident in the newspaper, write accounts of it through different points of view. Using these accounts, develop a vivid recreation or story about the accident. Select two different comic strips. Decide how the two strips compare on the issue. Contrast different writing styles in the newspaper.
News is a straightforward delivery of facts.
It follows the inverted style and uses short sentences with neutral verbs. Feature style is more versatile, personal and interpretive. Editorials are opinionated exercises in logic. In editorials, both concepts and sentence structure are more complicated. Sports style is easy, analytical and colorful.