Project C - Writing

The journalist

In this writing assignment you're going to give your opinion on the new anti-crime programme:
Report on the new anti-crime programme.


You are a journalist writing a report on the new American anti-crime programme.
You can choose one of the following themes.

  1. You start your report with an introduction about the new anti-crime programme. What is it about? What is the aim of the article? Who was it written for? You can make use of the following words: innovative, anti-crime, discourage, persistent, petty, aim, responsibility, respect, scare, straight, mind-jolting, brutal, Georgia State's Boot Camp, ordeal, humiliation, correctional officer, pour forth, torrent, abuse, threat, insult.
  2. From a fellow reporter you receive information on the case of Cynthia McLendon. You have to include her case in your report too. Write some lines with the help of the following keywords: housewife, fondness, marijuana, forced, post-mortem, decomposing, corpse, blankets, reveal, victim, crack, addict, stab to death, pathologist, faint, carry out, fresh air.

NEW ANTI-CRIME PROGRAMME

MICHAEL HILL’S face is tense with fear as he lowers himself into the electric chair. The only sound is the chirring of the generator which sends a 2,000-volt shock through the bodies of those whose time on Death Row runs out. In front of him are two witnesses, brown paper sick-bags within easy reach on the church-pew seating. A single shaft of light filters through the death house at Georgia State Prison - the last ray of God’s sunshine that ever falls on the condemned.

For the first time in his life Michael’s cocky, streetwise facade has vanished. He is no murderer. His only crime was to quench his thirst with a few cold beers on a hot Georgia night - at 18, he is too young to drink in America. No one is going to throw the switch to send him to his death. He is there in the chair as part of an innovative anti-crime programme now being used to discourage persistent petty offenders in the United States.

Scare
The aim is to scare them straight. The message is simple: This is what awaits you unless you are willing to change.
One hundred miles away, 42-year-old housewife Cynthia McLendon is paying for her fondness for smoking marijuana.
She is being forced to witness the post-mortem of a murdered prostitute. The decomposing corpse has been lying for four days wrapping in blankets in a car. Close examination reveals the victim was a crack addict, stabbed to death by a customer whose dollars she needed to fuel her addiction.
Cynthia gets as far as seeing the pathologist saw open the dead woman’s skull. There she faints and has to be carried out into the fresh air.

Both Cynthia and Michael Hill are one step away from state prison. The Conditional discharge Programme (CDP) in their home town of Columbus is giving them this bizarre last chance.

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Evaluation

You have done well if you can answer the parts with good or sufficient in the following table.

 

Good

Sufficient

Insufficient

Content

The information I have used is relevant. I have used many of the words mentioned in the assignments.

I can structure the text I have written well in the report.

The information I have used is mostly relevant. I used some of the words mentioned in the assignments.

I can reasonably structure the text I have written in the report.

I find it difficult to determine what is relevant information to use in the report.

I find the words mentioned in the assignments difficult to use.

I cannot properly structure the text I have written in the report.

Words

I have used the words correctly.

I can use most words well.

I can't use the words properly.

Grammar

I can use / apply the following components well:

  • basic sentences
  • word order
  • Pronouns and prepositions

I make little to no writing mistakes.

I can use / apply the following components reasonably well:

  • basic sentences
  • word order
  • Pronouns and prepositions

I still make a few writing mistakes.

I cannot properly use / apply the following components:

  • basic sentences
  • word order
  • Pronouns and prepositions

I still make quite a lot of writing mistakes.