Final assignment

The final assignment is a 600-word  deadline speech/event story. Plan to email it to me pasted in the email by 11 p.m. Monday, Nov. 25 if you are going to write about a speaker at the Tedx Professor Speaker Showcase, 6 p.m. in the Isenberg Flavin auditorium.

If you can NOT make it to this event, plan to write about a video I will show in class on Tuesday, Nov. 26. If you go to the Tedx event and send me your piece by 11 p.m., you do NOT have to come to class on Tuesday.

Your piece should include:

•  a solid lead that makes an assertion about the speaker's main theme
• a nutgraph that sums up that this was a Tedx event and a sentence explaining what that is, and that it is the second one held at UMass,  about how many people attended, who the speaker was that you are writing about and some of the key points he/she made that you will expand upon in your paper. (Or, if you do the Tuesday assignment, a video about what topic, directed by whom, and the year it was made and several key points about the video that you will expand upon in your piece.)
• quotes from the speaker (or speaker(s) in the video)
• Meaningful quotes from two people who attended

For more information about what Tedx, in general, is, check out the website: http://www.ted.com/pages/about

Here's what the UMass Journalism Facebook page says about the Monday, Nov. 25 Tedx Professor Speaker Showcase:

"Prof. Shaheen Pasha has been chosen to give a talk at the UMass Amherst Tedx Professor Speaker Showcase at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 25, in Isenberg's Flavin Auditorium. Pasha will give a talk entitled "What's Your Story?" about how her own personal narrative informed her work as a journalist on three continents."