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Time for Try It #3, organizing information in an inverted pyramid!

Your next graded newswriting assignment will require you to write a full story using inverted pyramid style. For this Try It, you will practice how to organize meeting information into that organizational format of a hard news story:

Select one of the following scenarios and write a full story using inverted pyramid style:

Meeting Story Practice Exercise10 (PDF)

Meeting Story Practice Exercise11 (PDF)

Meeting Story Practice Exercise12 (PDF)

(To read the scenarios, you must click on each filename to open or download these PDF documents.)

Please make sure you have studied and learned the news story-writing rules before attempt this Try It. Then, begin your story with a summary news lead of no more than 20 words and one sentence with a past tense verb in active voice that follows all of the rules you've learned so far.

Use a nut graf (or "graph") for the second paragraph. If you need more help understanding the principle of a nut graf, please review these step-by-step instructions on how to craft nut grafs and this article on how to use nut grafs in hard news stories, both from the Poynter Institute.

Write the rest of the story in inverted-pyramid style. Write only one or two short sentences in each paragraph.

Can you please help me this is my Journalism 201 class not operation management I click it because I didn't see Journalism 201. Can you please help me.

it's saying I have to select the exercise and write full story using invert pyramid style. I selected. exercise 11. I put the picture below of Exercise 11.

Can you please help me

Meeting Story Practice Exercise11 Edit and assemble these facts into a summary news story of 300-350 words. Assume Harkensville is in your home state and that your story will be published in print the day after these events transpired. Make all necessary grammar, punctuation and AP style edits. Councilwoman Marilyn Knott said Harkensville City "desperately" needs money at Thursday's council meeting. Knott, who represents the Central City district, said there's a chance the city will need to lay off some workers next year. Arthur Hunt, the city treasurer, agreed. "The financials are pretty bad," he said at the council meeting. A one-cent sales tax increase would raise about $400,000 for the city next year, he argued. Hunt said the revenue could help pay for the twice-weekly garbage pickups that he fears will soon need to be trimmed to once a week because the city doesn't have enough money to pay its bills. The city's new mayor, Ray Sutton, is against the tax: "I believe the people are too heavily taxed already. I don't think this is what we should be doing. It's hard times. I don't think the people want this." The majority of the city council didn't agree with the mayor. Councilman Richard Peck, who represents the Needwood Lake district, said the city "was in big trouble." The one-cent increase in the city's sales tax was proposed Thursday night by Councilwoman Paula Kay of the Parkdale district. Peck believes the city's revenue stream got hit when the council eliminated its requirement that vehicles display a sticker on their windshields indicating their owners had paid their personal property tax. The city is using automated license plate readers on parking enforcement vehicles to identify potential tax evaders, Sutton argued. Peck said Sutton didn't know what he was talking about. "Everyone's scamming us now, man," Peck claimed. The Council voted to eliminate the decals last Sept. It was a unanimous vote. That was before Sutton got elected. The mayor: "This change improved efficiency and customer service, and it gave vehicle owners one less thing to worry about." State inspection stickers already have to be displayed on all vehicles. Bill Maserati, the Harkensville City councilman for the Durham district, suggested a counterproposal. He said the city should require morticians to pay a licensing fee to operate in Harkensville. He said his proposal would assess an annual license fee that morticians would have to pay every year. "There's more than 30 of 'em in the city, Maserati exclaimed. We could make good money from this." Maserati: "The state gives us power to do this and we need the money." Don Mikkelsohn, of Mikkelsohn Mortuary on Brighton Dam Rd., interrupted the meeting to say: "We don't believe Mr. Maserati is correct when he says the state gives the city the power to do this. The state license 2/3 ans and gives the city the power to enforce this licensing procedure. Othe. wise, the state enforces the licensing. I believe if the city charges morticians this fee, it will have to turn the proceeds over to the state." Mikkelsohn is the president of the city's Mortician Society. Harold Reece, the city attorney, said there is some question about the city's authority to collect this fee. Maserati wants to charge $1,500 annually per mortuary, including taxidermists. By his accounting, the city could raise $450,000 annually. Maserati said the city can't wait. "If we're already considering cutting garbage services, we don't have time to waste." Councilman Charles Becker moved to table Mr. Maserati's proposal. The council vote 6-1 to pass Becker's motion while Maserati was loudly objecting into the council's one microphone. Maserati is a former DJ. Harold Reece, the city attorney, said there is some question about the city's authority to collect this fee. Maserati wants to charge $1,500 annually per mortuary, including taxidermists. By his accounting, the city could raise $450,000 annually. Maserati said the city can't wait. "If we're already considering cutting garbage services, we don't have time to waste." Councilman Charles Becker moved to table Mr. Maserati's proposal. The council vote 6-1 to pass Becker's motion while Maserati was loudly objecting into the council's one microphone. Maserati is a former DJ. Then the council voted for increasing the sales tax 5-2. Sutton and Maserati were the only ones to vote against the proposal. Sutton's a Republican. The mayor immediately adjourned the meeting. Becker represents the Crownsville neighborhood. # # # 3/3 Meeting Story Practice Exercise11 Edit and assemble these facts into a summary news story of 300-350 words. Assume Harkensville is in your home state and that your story will be published in print the day after these events transpired. Make all necessary grammar, punctuation and AP style edits. Councilwoman Marilyn Knott said Harkensville City "desperately" needs money at Thursday's council meeting. Knott, who represents the Central City district, said there's a chance the city will need to lay off some workers next year. Arthur Hunt, the city treasurer, agreed. "The financials are pretty bad," he said at the council meeting. A one-cent sales tax increase would raise about $400,000 for the city next year, he argued. Hunt said the revenue could help pay for the twice-weekly garbage pickups that he fears will soon need to be trimmed to once a week because the city doesn't have enough money to pay its bills. The city's new mayor, Ray Sutton, is against the tax: "I believe the people are too heavily taxed already. I don't think this is what we should be doing. It's hard times. I don't think the people want this." The majority of the city council didn't agree with the mayor. Councilman Richard Peck, who represents the Needwood Lake district, said the city "was in big trouble." The one-cent increase in the city's sales tax was proposed Thursday night by Councilwoman Paula Kay of the Parkdale district. Peck believes the city's revenue stream got hit when the council eliminated its requirement that vehicles display a sticker on their windshields indicating their owners had paid their personal property tax. The city is using automated license plate readers on parking enforcement vehicles to identify potential tax evaders, Sutton argued. Peck said Sutton didn't know what he was talking about. "Everyone's scamming us now, man," Peck claimed. The Council voted to eliminate the decals last Sept. It was a unanimous vote. That was before Sutton got elected. The mayor: "This change improved efficiency and customer service, and it gave vehicle owners one less thing to worry about." State inspection stickers already have to be displayed on all vehicles. Bill Maserati, the Harkensville City councilman for the Durham district, suggested a counterproposal. He said the city should require morticians to pay a licensing fee to operate in Harkensville. He said his proposal would assess an annual license fee that morticians would have to pay every year. "There's more than 30 of 'em in the city, Maserati exclaimed. We could make good money from this." Maserati: "The state gives us power to do this and we need the money." Don Mikkelsohn, of Mikkelsohn Mortuary on Brighton Dam Rd., interrupted the meeting to say: "We don't believe Mr. Maserati is correct when he says the state gives the city the power to do this. The state license 2/3 ans and gives the city the power to enforce this licensing procedure. Othe. wise, the state enforces the licensing. I believe if the city charges morticians this fee, it will have to turn the proceeds over to the state." Mikkelsohn is the president of the city's Mortician Society. Harold Reece, the city attorney, said there is some question about the city's authority to collect this fee. Maserati wants to charge $1,500 annually per mortuary, including taxidermists. By his accounting, the city could raise $450,000 annually. Maserati said the city can't wait. "If we're already considering cutting garbage services, we don't have time to waste." Councilman Charles Becker moved to table Mr. Maserati's proposal. The council vote 6-1 to pass Becker's motion while Maserati was loudly objecting into the council's one microphone. Maserati is a former DJ. Harold Reece, the city attorney, said there is some question about the city's authority to collect this fee. Maserati wants to charge $1,500 annually per mortuary, including taxidermists. By his accounting, the city could raise $450,000 annually. Maserati said the city can't wait. "If we're already considering cutting garbage services, we don't have time to waste." Councilman Charles Becker moved to table Mr. Maserati's proposal. The council vote 6-1 to pass Becker's motion while Maserati was loudly objecting into the council's one microphone. Maserati is a former DJ. Then the council voted for increasing the sales tax 5-2. Sutton and Maserati were the only ones to vote against the proposal. Sutton's a Republican. The mayor immediately adjourned the meeting. Becker represents the Crownsville neighborhood. # # # 3/3