All the day-in-the-life articles that I read were vastly different,
depending on their chosen subject. The marathon bombing victim piece versus the
elite Korean school story for instance were very dissimilar partly because they
have different authors (meaning that the writing style, structure and central
conflict will not be the same) and partly because one focused on a school and the
other focused on a person. This alone largely determines what kind of article is
written and how the authors deal with spinning a story. For my own
day-in-the-life piece this week I am writing about a place. I haven’t read a
lot of articles that deal with places (typically these kinds are written about
people), so I am using the Korean school story as a model. It successfully
captured what goes on at Daewon and how extremely hard its students work, but
it also provided commentary on the larger issue of the intense pressure kids feel
to get accepted at an Ivy League school. In addition the article described the
normal schedules that these students have, which brought a human element to a
story that is focused on an inanimate object.
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