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Exercises
- Take a news article and mark it up to reveal its organizational structure. Does it have an
informative opening paragraph? Does each additional paragraph begin with a topic
sentence? Does it use subheadings? Is there a conclusion that follows logically from the
information presented? - Find an article that you do not like and review it. State specific reasons why you dislike it
and share your opinion with your classmates. - Find an article that you do like and review it. State specific reasons why you like it and
share your opinion with your classmates. - You’ve been assigned to a sales team that has not been performing at optimal levels.
Develop an incentive program to improve the team’s performance. Present your idea to
the class.
[1] Franklin, B. (1748). Advice to a young tradesman, written by an old one.
Philadelphia, PA: B. Franklin and D. Hall.