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1. What type of headline does each article have？

Article 1: It’s a question lead which makes all of the readers feel curious about the answer.

Article 2: It’s a lead which recalls people’s memory about the similar events  which happened in the past.

Article 3: It’s a lead which describes the characteristics of the person.

2.How many quotes are present in each article？

There are 12 quotes in the first article, 13 quotes in the second article and 12  quotes in the last one.

3.Are all the quotes justified？Pick at leastone quote from article that can easily  be paraphrased. Write the paraphrased sentence.

Not all the quotes are justified.

"I think we need to be, as you know, careful, because initial information can often be wrong,"CNN contributorFran Townsend said the same day.

Paraphrased:CNN contributor Fran Townsend pointer out the same daythat CNN should be very careful in case that the initial information is wrong.

4.Go through each article and look at the quotes and see if they’ve been quotedsimilarly. How are they different from one another？Whatis the most common  type of quote？

Most of the quotes are similar andthe most common type of quote is direct  quote. Thereare also some differences betweenthem. Like in the first passage,  most of the quotes are people’s direct conversation and inthe second one,  all  the direct quotes are answers to the questions asked by journalists.

5.How many sources are quoted in each article？Mark each andevery source cited in the article. Look through and see if any other verb otherthan ‘to say’ has been used. Why do you think that is?

There are 4 sources in the first article: Miller, Cooper, NBC Sports, Katie  Uhlaender.

There are 9 sources in the second article: CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, CNN  contributor Fran Townsend,  The AP,  the CNN, The Washington Post's Charles  Lane, the bureau, CNN's John King ,  one authority,  Jack Shafer .

There are 4 sources in the last article: Anne Thompson，Parker，Carolyn，an  18-year-old female student.

Verbs used: reply, acknowledge,demur, read, add, intone, report, point out, note , tweet, tell,recall ,claim .

Reason:Sometimes to make it more reliable , it is a good way to use different  verbs indifferent situations, like we use the word ”verb” when we point out that the words are all from his Twitter and we use recall when we describe that the words are from the man’s memory.