Arts in the Community News Article Lead and Outline
The main assignment for the Arts in the Community Project is a web-style news article on your chosen topic written for a local audience. The purpose of the article is to bring attention to your topic and to make your audience more informed.
Since this is a news article, that makes you a reporter, and reporters use the reporter’s questions: who, what, when, where, how, and why. Similarly, reporters begin their articles with a strong lead–an opening sentence that summarizes the main point of the article and informs readers why the topic should matter to them.
This week, you’ll get started writing this article by writing an outline that focuses on those reporter’s questions. By writing a headline, a lead, and responding to each of the reporter’s questions in complete sentences, you’ll generate much of the content for your article. In the next stage, which you will begin working on next week, you’ll take the content from this outline and develop it further into a full-length article.
Respond to each of the following.
Headline (title of your article):
The Lead (a high-level, one or two-sentence summary of what your article is about and why the reader should want to want to read on:
Reporter’s Questions
Who: Who created the artwork? Who else besides the artist was involved in its creation?
What: What is the artwork? Describe it in detail.
Where: Where is the artwork housed? What is the significance of this location?
When: When was it created? Describe the historical context in which it was created.
How: How was it created? How long did it take? What materials were used? Who funded it?
Why: Why is this artwork significant? Why should readers care about it?
Submission Instructions
Your response should be approximately 300-400 words long. Note that the material in bold is 112 words and does not count toward that total.
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