Biology homework help. Press release assignment
Should be 300-400 words.
About: evolution and natural selection to the public by means of describing the PTC gene experiment.
Write a press release, make sure you have all five W’s in your story (who, what, where, when, and why). In journalism. And that you have a catchy headline.
Your goal is to make the results and discussion section into a story that is accurate and interesting to the public. Your press release should include ideas about evolution and natural selection.
- It’s very similar to a news story
- You want to answer the (who, what, where, when, and why)
- The key is to get the most important news right up at the top, it called inverted pyramid style.
- News should be most important at the top, least at the bottom.
- First paragraph is the main news, so this is usually the what (what is this about?) or the why (why are we talking about this?)
The Rubric for the assignment:
Title:
Description:
- What the question of interest is and how it is answered
- Why this is of interest to the general public
- Who the research impacts and who did the research?
- The time line related to the descriptions
- Where the research took place and where the research relates to?
Inverted Pyramid style:
- Put the important information, what and why (at the top of the press release)
Content and style:
- Relate scientific evidence to natural selection and/or evolution
- Potential for creating public interest.
- Accurate discussion of scientific evidence produced in our experiments present.
