You must understand how to develop an ANGLE (sometimes also called a hook, teaser, or grabber) for your article.
An angle is sometimes a specialized look at a general concept. For instance, you might decide to write on solar homes. Books have been written on this topic. Therefore, you narrow the field to passive solar homes (as contrasted with active homes, which require electrical circulating pumps, etc.). Then you narrow it even farther to focus on passive solar homes built at 7,000 plus altitude in Arizona.
If the article is about a person (personality profile), then you should look for something unusual, different or strange about that individual. Don't write it like a biography. Maybe you find someone who freezes people for a living, hoping to awaken them when a cure is found for the disease which killed them and the technology is perfected to successfully thaw them. ASSIGNMENT:
Write five story ideas. Put your topic first in all capitals. Make that about 10 20 words. Then in 50 words or less, explain your idea. Remember that it needs an angle.
Refer to your story kinds in assignment one for suggestions as to what kind of story you might undertake.
Most students do How to stories, personality profiles, and problematic articles. However, you are not limited to these three.
You have a departmental standard form on the syllabus page. Refer to it for style of writing. For instance, type on standard paper with pica type and double space. Leave standard margins. You may do minor (and few) corrections with a #2 pencil.