eal; see what
the local papers do with these stories and whether the local
correspondents send them out.

7. Analyze the nature of the personal appeal in stories that are
printed only for their personal appeal.

8. Notice how local reasons change the news values of local
stories.

9. In any or all of these stories determine what the feature is.
Distinguish between the fundamental incident which the story
reports and the additional significant feature which enhances
the news value of the fundamental incident.

EXERCISES FOR THE THIRD CHAPTER

1. Run over the Style Book at the end of this book; note the
essential points in newspaper style.

2. Give the principal rules for the preparation of copy.

3. Glance over the "Don'ts" in the Style Book.

EXERCISES FOR THE FOURTH CHAPTER

1. Study the form and construction of news stories, especially
simple fire stories.

2. Pick out the feature of each story--the additional incident in
the story which increases the news value of the story
itself--and see if the striking feature has been played up to
best advantage.

3. Notice how the reader's customary questions--what, where, when,
who, how, and why--are answered in the lead. Make a list of the
answers in any given story.

EXERCISES FOR THE FIFTH CHAPTER

1. Collect good fire stories appearing in the newspapers. Study
the construction of the lead and the order in which the facts
are presented in the body of each story.

2. Write the leads of fire stories. The chances are that actual
fires will seldom occur at the time when the student wishes to
study the writing of fire stories, but the instructor may give
his class, orally or in writing, the facts of a fire story. He
may use imaginary facts or he may take the facts from a story
clipped from a newspaper--the latter method is better because it
enables the instructor to show the students, after they have
written their stories, just how the original story was written
in the newspaper office. The facts should be given in the order
in which a reporter would probably secure them in actual
reporting so that the student may learn to sort and arrange the
facts that he wishes to use, and to select