Powerful Reasearch Sites

The following websites will be demonstrated over the next few days. You will use them to develop some baseline reasearch about a few of the topics that you have begun to select for a feature article.

PEW RESEARCH CENTER
For the best statistical research website in teh world and one which many newspaper use to generate a gross number of stories from.

COLORADO SPRINGS POLICE DEPARTMENT
For a local resource about crime and local statistics that can be used to highlight any story.
Especially the statistics link, but much of the information is olderthan 2 years.

PIKES PEAK PUBLIC LIBRARY
For a local resource about crime and local statistics that can be used to highlight any story.
Especially the statistics link, but much of the information is olderthan 2 years.

EL PASO COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
This is a good site for local health statistics and data. Look under data/stats and then follow a link to the Colorado Department of health data sets. From there you can search teens directly.

FOX21PREP ZONE or VARVEE.COM
If you are interested in doing a sport stroy and need to find out specific data about teams and individuals, these sites seem to be keeping the best and most accessible facts in Colorado.

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
By far one of the best and most diverse sources of legitimate news available.

This American Life: A Place to Start

You might as well begin at the top. This American Life is the best feature journalism anywhere.

This American Life

Interview with Ira Glass on fresh Air

You can stream the first two seasons of this American Life from Showtime on Netflix.

Feature Writing Vocab

Here is the basic vocabulary of the feature article.

List vs. Line Worksheet

The following worksheets are your to use to develop a basic list of questions about yourself and then develop the list into a better structure for use in an interview.

Line of Question worksheets

After you complete a list of questions, you'll want to develop a Line of Questions. Below is the Bloom's taxonomy which will help you in developing a Line of Questions. Also are the Line of Qestions worksheets and Examples of othe Lines of Questions.