Dear Feature Writers,
- Your Neighborhood Faces Query (describing the person you wish to profile is due on Thursday, September 24th. Please post it online (category: Profiles Drafts). What can this person tell us about your neighborhood? Why have you chosen him/her? 250 words. What multi-media would you add to complement your story?
- Reading: “2 Jobs at the Sugar Factory, and a Lump in the Throat”: Does the writer give us more than Robert Shelton’s personal history? Describe the narrative of this profile, the arc of the story. What do you think of the lead? Where is the nut graf? What about the author’s point-of-view? Do look at online images of Kara Walker’s sculptural installation, “A Subtlety” before you answer these questions. Category: Robert Shelton for your blog post.
