A) Condensing Lengthy Leads.

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Task 3

Avoid Exaggeration and Misleading Readers

Avoid the Negative

Avoid Stating the Obvious

Avoid Lists

Their family home, a new Cadillac, $2,500 a month, and a 50 percent interest in their family business were awarded to Claire Marcial, who sued her husband for divorce.

REVISED: As part of the divorce settlement, a judge awarded Claire Marcial their family home, a new Cadillac, $2,500 a month and a 50 percent interest in their family business.

The college's Placement Center has a wide variety of information and facts to help prepare students for their future careers.

REVISED: On Monday, the college's Placement Center will install computers in every building to inform students about new jobs and job interviews.

Americans over the age of 65 say that crime is not their greatest fear, two sociologists reported today.

REVISED: Americans over the age of 65 say their greatest fears are poor health and poverty, two sociologists reported today.

! WRITING ACTIVITIES 1

To practice the skills in writing leads in English you are offered some tasks. The following exercises are taken from the book you have already known by John R. Bender and others Reporting for the Media.

Your editor asked you to condense each of the leads (written by the beginning journalists) to no more than two typed lines, or about 20 words. Think of your audience and the issue where this story can be published.

Roger Datolli, 67, of 845 Conway Road, a retired attorney and husband of Mayor Sabrina Datolli, who is serving her fourth term as mayor, was injured in a three-vehicle accident Thursday afternoon around 3:20 p.m. at the intersection of Warren and Davidson avenues, suffering a broken leg and several broken ribs when the car he was driving was struck broadside by a pickup truck driven by Jerry R. Harris, 31, of 2245 Broadway Ave., and then was pushed into the path of another vehicle.