{"id":95,"date":"2016-08-11T06:13:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T10:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/?p=95"},"modified":"2016-10-20T11:21:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T15:21:25","slug":"module-7-story-organization-and-writing-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/sportsenterprise\/module-7-story-organization-and-writing-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Module 7: Story organization and writing plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Introduction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As we wrap up the reporting process and concentrate on writing, this is an opportunity to review the best-structured stories and consider options for planning and structuring your own stories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learning objectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consider your own writing habits and plans.<\/li>\n<li>Study structures other writers have used in their stories.<\/li>\n<li>Organize and plan your own stories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Steps to completion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Background:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/a4363\/things-that-carried-him\/\">The Things that Carried Him<\/a>\u201d and develop a paragraph by paragraph outline of it, summarizing each graf. Post in Module 7 with the tag \u201coutline\u201d by Oct. 17.<\/li>\n<li>John McPhee: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2013\/01\/14\/structure\">Beyond the picnic-table crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Clark, Part III<\/li>\n<li>Find a story from the Don van Natta list or elsewhere. Find an example of the advice offered by Clark and write a short blog post explaining in Module 7 with the tag \u201cstructure advice\u201d by Oct. 19.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Reflective:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Class discussion Oct. 18: Planning stories<\/li>\n<li>Class discussion Oct. 20: Structuring stories<\/li>\n<li>Class discussion Oct. 25: Writing plans<\/li>\n<li>Oct. 27: Workday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Exploratory<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Initial draft (top matter, nut graf, overall structure) due for team stories\u00a0Nov. 4<\/li>\n<li>Initial draft (top matter, nut graf, overall structure) due for individual\u00a0stories Nov. 11<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction: As we wrap up the reporting process and concentrate on writing, this is an opportunity to review the best-structured stories and consider options for planning and structuring your own stories. Learning objectives: Consider your own writing habits and plans. Study structures other writers have used in their stories. 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