Wednesday, November 5, 2014

OOC #2: In General

In general, good (but not great) work on the second out-of-classer. Good writing and good structure, but still way too narrow a range of sources, and a lack of neutral experts. 

We're not just trying to get one side or the other side, everyday people affected by things and the people in charge of those things; neutral experts or statistics backing up claims; and allegations and responses to those allegations; we are trying to get all of it.
Plus, one fatal: We spelled Capital Area Transportation Authority as Capital Area Transport Authority. That's a fatal, and all we had to do was double-check our spelling against that of CATA's Website.


Plus, we spelled the Centers for Disease Control as the Center for Disease Control. Not only would we know that from the CDC's Website, we'd also know if we looked it up in the AP Stylebook.

Also, we identified the movie shot here recently as Batman vs. Superman, when in fact it's Batman v Superman. Again, I found that on the movie's official Website.

I know that's not much, but that's all you need to fatal.
 
Please, folks. Double-check every noun (person, place or thing), every number (statistics, street address, etc), every date and every word in every quote.

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