Reporting Memo Guidelines


Reporting Memo Requirements
English 622

Questions
·      What is the central question propelling the story?
·      List smaller questions you wanted answered
·      How does this story answer so what? Why now?

Sources
·      List the people you talked to, their titles and contact info
·      Explain what you wanted to learn from each person
·      Explain what you learned from each person. What surprised you?

Background
·      Explain the background information you collected and the sources from whom/which you collected it

Statistics
·      Explain the statistics you gathered and the sources from whom/which you collected them

Scene/Observation
·      Explain the scene(s) you observed
·      What was the pulse of the scene? The problem that was resolved? Or not resolved?

Conflict
·      Identify the heart of the story’s conflict

Point/Focus
·      Answer the questions you listed above
·      Say in one sentence the ONE thing you learned from the reporting. What do you want others to know?


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