Student Edition | Instructor Edition | Information Center | Home
News Writing and Reporting for Today's Media, 7/e
Student Edition
Sources and Credits

Review Questions
Exercise 4.1
Exercise 4.2
Exercise 4.3
Exercise 4.4
Exercise 4.5
Exercise 4.6
Exercise 4.7
Exercise 4.8
Exercise 4.9
Exercise 4.10
Exercise 4.11
Exercise 4.12
Exercise 4.13
Exercise 4.14
Exercise 4.15
Exercise 4.16
Exercise 4.17
Exercise 4.18
Exercise 4.19
Exercise 4.20
Exercise 4.21
Exercise 4.22
Exercise 4.23
Exercise 4.24
Exercise 4.25
Exercise 4.26

Feedback
Help Center



Summary Leads

Exercise 4.3

Complete this exercise offline and then either e-mail or hand the exercise in to your instructor.

Write a summary lead based on the following information, which is from a story in the San Francisco Examiner.
     There has been another winter storm in Northern California.
     Snow fell on 4,062-foot Mount Hamilton east of San Jose. It even snowed in Oakland at about 2 a.m. There was snow on Coast Range mountains north and south of San Francisco.
     This latest storm occurred on Thursday morning.
     It left behind icy roads and frigid
temperatures.
     There was also some good news. For a change, there's a promise of a dry and sunny day on Friday.
     The storm brought snow, hail, torrential rains and standing water on roadways, which caused hundreds of fender-bender accidents in the state.
     Rain on already-saturated hillsides created an extreme danger of mudslides, officials said.