Obamas inauguration: Brainstorming

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Obamas inauguration Brainstorming
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Access requests Coming up with ideas

• The headlines
• Brainstorming
• Follow your own stories
• Discover what kinds of documents departments
  create
• Keep lists of requests to file

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Some federal government sources to search for
ideas

• Auditor General of Canadahttp//www.oag-bvg.gc.ca
  /domino/oag-bvg.nsf/html/menue.html
• Plans and Priorities / Performance
  Reportshttp//www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/est-pre/estime.as
  pOSD
• Public Accountshttp//www.pwgsc.gc.ca/recgen/text
  /pub-acc-e.html

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Workshop exercise

• Break into groups of four
• Come up with an access request
• Write it down on the overhead
• As a group, we will go over the wording

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Newswriting tips

• 1. Strive for clarity
• 2. Be confident in the material
• 3. Tell a story
• 4. Pay attention to your lead
• 5. Pick three things, then develop them
• 6. Avoid choppy writing vary sentence length
• 7. Use only interesting quotes
• 8. Ensure story flow
• 9. Check spelling of names
• 10. Double-check spelling of names

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Avoid choppy writing

• Jane Keener is a nurse. She works the night
  shift. She thinks she deserves a raise.
• Better to write
• Nurse Jane Keener, who works the night shift,
  thinks she deserves a raise.