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To: fightinJAG

I like suspense in other contexts such as mystery novels, but for journalism I prefer to see the “inverted pyramid” in which the essentials come first, with a strong topic sentence and a 1st paragraph the outlines the gist of the article.


14 posted on 12/03/2008 12:03:04 AM PST by Enchante (Countless Innocents in Mumbai, India Suffer the "Religion of Peace" in Action)
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To: Enchante

Yep. Make the bottom line your top line when writing articles such as this.


30 posted on 12/03/2008 6:32:31 AM PST by fightinJAG (TWO BIG BUSH TAX CUTS EXPIRE AT THE END OF 2008. Happy New Year, love, President Obama)
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