What does it mean to “open up the aperture of your mind” in the context of finding news stories?

What will be an ideal response?


The best way to find ideas for a news story is to pay more attention to what happens around you in everyday life. Opening up the aperture of your mind means noticing small things in your everyday experience and using critical thinking skills to wonder why things work (or don’t work) and how they got to be that way in the first place.

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Using a film that has been screened in class, craft an evaluative claim about it. Then craft a descriptive claim about the same film. Last, craft an interpretive claim about this film. Briefly describe each

What will be an ideal response?

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In the force field analysis technique, forces that increase the likelihood that a desired goal will occur are called _____ forces.

A. driving B. creative C. evaluative D. restraining

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Which of the following does your textbook mention as an advantage of extemporaneous delivery?

A. It encourages a conversational quality in a speaker's delivery. B. It allows greater spontaneity than does speaking from a manuscript. C. It requires little or no preparation before the speech is given. D. All the answers are correct. E. Both it encourages a conversational quality in a speaker's delivery and it allows greater spontaneity than does speaking from a manuscript.

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