Your textbook recommends description, comparison, and contrast as ways to avoid abstractions in an informative speech.

If you have positive or negative attitudes about an individual or cultural group based on little or no direct experience with that person or group, you would be classified as

a. racist. b. stereotypical. c. ethnocentric. d. discriminatory. e. prejudiced.

Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Feature stories can use a range of story structures. 2. News writing is more creative today than a generation ago. 3. Today, most newspapers operate as print operations supplemented by online editions. 4. The digital, multiplatform story age has been beneficial for newspapers.