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Question 1: Write-an-Opinion Article of between-700-1000-words using the same topic you've been researching all quarter.

The goal is to share your position on your topic with a target audience and a direct focus. To do so, you will get-ready-writing for print publication in the style of an opinion article-written toward the local newspaper. The opinion area of a newspaper provides the community voice and gives local residents the opportunity to express their concerns or positions on topics, particularly as those topics have local impact.

Readers of opinion articles want to grasp the issue you are presenting and understand your angle right away, and they want to connect with you personally as a neighbor or community member. It must make the point quickly and memorably, with an ultimate goal of convincing readers to agree with you, act in some way, and/or change their minds. This assignment challenges you to demonstrate that you can tailor the writing toward a specific audience with a specific focus.

In this assignment, you will continue-writing-about ongoing research topic, but it will modify it to meet the various formatting and style needs of a typical opinion article for a local publication. It-must demonstrate that you have made careful choices to revise your more academic-writing-to fit another medium targeted toward a different audience.

This assignment requires to:

Which publication have you chosen? Provide us with the publication name and general information about it (is it a daily newspaper or a weekly alternative newspaper, for example).

Who is your target audience? Describe your local community with particular emphasis on those who are likely to read this news publication. What are their needs, values, etc.?

What angle will you take in writing your Opinion Article? What is the main point you hope to get across to readers, and what strategies will you use to accomplish those goals?

Determine a local publication to which will write-your Opinion Article. This is likely to be hometown daily newspaper; however, it may also have a local alternative newspaper that you could use as your target publication. For example, in Asheville, NC, the daily newspaper is the Asheville Citizen Times (Links to an external site.), while the weekly alternative newspaper is the Mountain Xpress (Links to an external site.). Either choice would be viable for this assignment. While you are encouraged to submit your opinion article to the publication, this is not a requirement. For this assignment, simply prepare your article as if you are-writing-to a very direct audience: the editor and readers of a local publication. So your-instructor knows your target audience, begin your article with the heading "Written-toward-[insert name of news publication here]:"

Determine the style, tone, level of formality, etc. that is typical for that publication. Do this by reviewing and reading articles from the publication with particular attention to the Opinion/Editorial or Letter to the Editor sections.

Analyze the target audience for the publication, and consider how their needs dictate the writing choices you will-make. This means you need to consider the backgrounds, beliefs, values, etc. of the people who are in your town or community. Think of ways you can make connections with them in your writing.

Write an Opinion Article of between-700-1000-words using the same topic you've been researching all quarter.