Alt Ledes: Do Your Work!

In the homework assignment, I received completed work from only 10 people. Problem is, we have 16 people in this class.

Whoops.

First, it's important that you remember your deadlines, and complete the assignments as ordered. I'm not giving you guys busywork; each assignment is part of a long chain of assignments intended to build up your skill sets in various parts of journalistic writing and organization, so that you can not only execute each part by the end of the semester, but also understand how and why it fits into the overall scheme.

Second, make sure you're sending things to the right place. I don't know if anyone sent homework to omar@msu.edu -- the wrong address, by the way -- but it's your responsibility to make sure you're seding things to the right place, which in this case is omars@msu.edu.

Third, if you miss a day of class it is your responsibility to check on what you missed. I would strongly advise you not to wait until the next class day to do that. Instead, you should check with me by email or phone later on the day you missed to find out what you missed and need to have prepared for the next class; or in lieu of that, ask a classmate.

Fourth, watch your facts! One of us had a fact fatal, in that we identified the 6-month-old girl as a 2-year-old girl.

Please, make sure that you adequately understand the correct information before you start writing, and then after you're done typing check over each fact, statistic and piece of information to ensure you wrote what you intended to write.