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16thregionfan

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USA Today wrote a new article about Elliott County called " A Hoosiers II in Kentucky keeps county captivated." Heres the link.http://www.usatoday.com/sports/preps/basketball/2009-03-18-small-county_N.htm

statmanhensley

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I thought it was a really good article but coming from someone who is taking a Copy Editing class right now, it wasn't well written.

 

I will however say that it is always great to see something good written about good people from Kentucky.

Wireman

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Elliott County has a devoted following. Superintendent John C. Williams says one fan drives nearly two hours to watch the Lions play, and the school sold all of its tickets for the Sweet 16 in 90 minutes.

 

I wonder who that is? :lol:

Clyde

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I thought it was a really good article but coming from someone who is taking a Copy Editing class right now, it wasn't well written.

 

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Can you give us some examples?

statmanhensley

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Now I could be wrong on this but from what I have been taught in my Copy Editing class, here is what I was meaning by it not being well written:

 

Paragrapoh 5 - The quote should be a separate paragrah and not stuck at the end of paragraph 5.

 

Paragraph 7 - There is no space between the first and second sentence.

 

Paragraph 9 - The first sentence is kind of confusing but could be remedied by putting "always in" befoe "constant." Another in the paragraph is the quote stuck at the end of it...it should be its own paragrah.

 

Paragraph 11 - Another quote stuck at the end of a paragraph when it would work better as its own paragraph.

 

Paragraph 12 - The quote should either not be used or used as its own paragraph....I vote for not being used because it looks like the quthor just threw it in there because there is nothing in that paragraph that relates to the players having good basketball minds....it just mentions how tall they are.

 

Paragraph 14 - The beginning should be reworded because if I am not mistaken, the name of the tournament is just Beach Ball Classic...if it has started out "At the Beach Ball Classic in Myrtle Beach, S.C.," then that would have been much, much, much better.

 

Paragraphs 15 & 16 - He mentions that people congregate at the Penny Mart for socializing, food, and games....well this would be okay if it wasn't mentionedin back-to-back paragraphs. Kind of sounds redundant to me. And the quote should be by itself to end the artcile with.

16thregionfan

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:ylsuper::ylsuper::laugh:Seriously? You are telling us that their starters were held back a year? Oh my goodness, that has never been mentioned before. Wow, where did you get this new concept at? LOL. Joking. Maybe one of these days someone big will write an article about your team, and then maybe you will not resent Elliott County so much. Amusing.

Is it true that all 5 starters were held back a year? :sssh:
Mr. Athletics

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I loved watching Elliot County play and only have seen them play once. They know how to play the game and I am pulling for them. In no way am I trying to bash them.

 

I read this at the bottom of the USA Today article that has been posted above.

KYSPORTSFAN

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:ylsuper::ylsuper::laugh:Seriously? You are telling us that their starters were held back a year? Oh my goodness, that has never been mentioned before. Wow, where did you get this new concept at? LOL. Joking. Maybe one of these days someone big will write an article about your team, and then maybe you will not resent Elliott County so much. Amusing.

 

 

In all honesty and seriousness, I believe like me he read about it in the article on the link in this thread. I myself had never read this before either. It was just a question.

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