Creative Editing
Chapter 5
Exercise 4
4. Answer the following questions in complete sentences as though the information were part of a story you are editing. Give a complete citation for your source for each answer.
a. Who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1998?
b. Use information from Who's Who in America to write several sentences about the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1998.
c. Who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1998? Briefly describe this person's major contribution to physics.
d. Has the number of farms in your state increased or decreased since 1970? Give the specific number of farms in the current year (or the last year for which figures are available) and in 1970.
e. Using Books in Print or another reference source, find a citation for a bibliography on television and ethics. Give the title of the bibliography, then check the card catalog (either print or electronic versions) at your local library to see whether the book is part of the library's collection. If it is, provide the call number. Don't forget to provide the citation for the source you used to find the book title.
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