Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Blog 6

Link to three outstanding Ampersand article pitches that you have seen on other students' blogs.

What makes each one stand out to you? What makes you believe these pitches would lead to great articles? Write a paragraph for each.

http://mconsunji.tumblr.com/
The thing that stood out on Monika's blog was Pitch #2: Research article on how prices are going up because certain fabrics like cotton and how people are reducing to “cheaper” fabrics. This stood out to me because I think readers would be interested on how prices in China are affecting the USA. She can turn this into a really informative article. She can do tis by looking up facts on prices, like how they have decreased as the years have gone by.

http://kgrant11thgrade.blogspot.com/
My favorite pitch on Kadija's article was I'm thinking about doing one on a cat's/dog's POV. As how they feel once they come into the hospital. Scared, worried, whatever. I think this would be a cute idea because not many people actually do think about how pets feel. I think that she can get readers to be like oh I never thought about that, and she can tell readers about her experience with handling pets.


http://tapandhthma.blogspot.com/
This pitch stood out to me 1. People work in society. In some instances, people tend to be more "robotic" than human in their work. They work, coming to and fro, almost like bees, buzzing along and working for the hive. Here is a point of view from an intern working with insects, and what he says looks alike between bees and the human race. I really liked this because honestly I think it would be boring to read about working with bugs because its such a boring topic, like bugs really? you see them everywhere and they are just pesty insects. But Tomas made his headline interesting.

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