Put on your running shoes because that’s what we’ll be doing. You’ll need your Stylebook ASAP. We will start working on AP Style, and your exam is June 19.

Also, you need your text. We will use it for readings and in-class writing practice. Check out the syllabus for information on e-book options. The LSU Bookstore also offers a rental option.

If you haven’t tweeted your fun fact, time is running out. Get that done now. Here are some assignment reminders for tomorrow:

Use this guideline to create a advertising copy platform for your home town. Use strong, appropriate verbs and concrete nouns. Write in complete sentences with correct comma placement. Be ready to turn this in Tuesday and tell us about your home town and the tag line you created to describe it.

Multiple choice quiz Tuesday on AP terms from Abbreviations/Citizen.
Know how to use these in a sentence. For example, pick the correct sentence:

1. My brother’s dog works for the F.B.I.
2. My brother’s dog works for the FBI.
3. My brother’s dog works for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Your Manship application is due by 4 p.m. Friday, May 1 — the final day of class. You will need to print and sign your application. Go to this page for a copy of the application. Read the application carefully for instructions and reminders.

Qualifications for application include the following:

• 3.0 LSU GPA
• B or better in MC2010 or MC2011
• 30 hours (see the application for more information)
• Essay of 250-300 words
• Resume

Follow rules your learned for AP style, grammar, punctuation, sentence structure. The Manship application has more information that will help you write your essay.

Check out the Career Services website for examples of a freshman resume and a chronological resume. Note: These resume examples do not follow AP style, but you should.

Your feature is not an English Essay. It is a feature story for a mass communication outlet. The two are not the same.

Here is a reminder of what we discussed in class:

• Make sure you have sufficient direct quotes from the subject of your story.
  • Show us what’s in your subject’s heart and head.
  • Don’t use a direct quote for facts: “The road is 26 miles,” he said.
• Put commas after FANBOYS in compound sentences and after intro phrases/clauses
• Use semicolons properly. You get only one in this story, and it can’t be in the lead. Avoid semicolons and colons if you can’t remember how to use them.
• Be consistent in your tense for verbs of attribution. Pick either “said” or “says” and stick to the tense.
• Watch placement and punctuation of “however”
• Remember these banned words/phrases
  • When asked
  • Went on to say … would go on to say
  • Watch it/its/it’s. Its’ is not a word.
  • Don’t say “…and many others.” Either leave that phrase out or say what the others are.
  • Very
  • … said of …
  • A lot of (or lots of)
  • “Mentioned” as a verb of attribution
  • “Talked about” as a verb of attribution
  • “Claimed” as a verb of attribution
• Don’t use feel/felt for verbs of attribution.
• Don’t say he loved his Nike running shorts (Save the word “love” for your grandmother and BFF.)
• Properly set up quotes
• Avoid run-ons and fragments, especially in direct quotes.
• Watch for subject/verb agreement
• Watch for noun/pronoun agreement (Watch out for collective nouns: The group of girls likes to watch scary movies.)
• Keep a proper graf length (four typed lines MAX)
• Avoid essay endings/leads. Don’t wax eloquently. Let your subject do that instead.
• Don’t switch person. (Stay in third person for your story. Only use first/second person in direct quotes.)
• Sufficiently ID people/organizations in your story
• Don’t use abbreviations of organizations on first reference
• Don’t begin a sentence with “it was” or “there is”/”there are” … Avoid MMWs.
• Keep yourself out of the story.

Section 3: Wake up and talk

Here are the links to your first blog posts:
Section 3: Wake up and talk
Section 4: Need to know 2010

Section 4: Need to know 2010