Write a fine draft of your final investigative story, following the guidelines below. This assignment is due on Brightspace by Tuesday 4/22 at the start of class.
1: Your fine draft should be in almost-final form. The story should be written from beginning to end. Sentences should be clean.
2: You should have "accepted" all of my edits (which you can edit differently if you think you have a better way of fixing the sentence, as long as you address the problem), and you should have responded to all of my comments, both in the margin notes and in my text notes.
3: You should include links to sources at every place I've added a footnote to your rough draft AND you should also include a linked source for every new statement of fact that you've added in response to one of my comments and/or edits.
4: Your fine draft should be between 1,000 and 1,500 words. (One single-spaced page is about 500 words.) This word count does not include research citations.
5: Your fine draft must include at least 10 research citations. These should be links that I can click on to check your sources. If you include Nexis links, then you must write out the title, author, and publication (I can't access Nexis links just by clicking on them). Otherwise, you do not have to write formal footnotes or a bibliography.
6: Submit your fine draft on Brightspace by the beginning of class on Tuesday 4/22. Also have it in front of you during class, as we will discuss how to fact-check, and we'll use your stories to do so.
