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finish a final project. This project is very important to me, please
take it seriously. This assignment related to news writing. You need to
master how to use AP style writing, AP style is not APA style, AP is a
type of news writing. You must use AP style writing, otherwise I will
get 0 points.Main story (800 to 1000 words) Sidebar ( 400 to 500 words)All the requirements and details in the file, please download and read it !!You do not need to shoot video and pictures, this is my task. You only need to complete all the writing parts.I will give you a theme, please follow my theme to complete. Thank you!On
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Final Project
Name
Americans in Troy usually try Chinese food in physical restaurants, which
include Golden Crane, Mr. Ho’s Chinese Buffet and others. But some Chinese
students are selling their country’s food online.
“Actually, running a Chinese restaurant is fierce competition, even in Troy,” said
Yulin Bang, 62, the owner of Golden Crane in Troy, who is from Taiwan. “The first
four years were the most difficult for Golden Crane.”
According to tripadvisor.com, there are 54 physical restaurants in Troy, and
Chinese restaurants account for five of them. But not only are there physical
restaurants; some Chinese students sell Chinese dishes online.
“We like to call this way private home cuisine,” said Xinyu Ren, 24, a graduate
sport and fitness management major from Zhengzhou, China. “My online store is
called ‘Dining Room in the Middle of the Night.’” The reason for this name is that
many students will study or party until midnight or later, and he mainly provides them
Chinese food.
“I like this way,” said Hong Shen, 21, a junior music education major from
Fuzhou, China, who has enrolled as a member paying for Ren’s service. “It is
convenient, much cheaper as well. Ren’s business has a good reputation, in my
friends’ circle at least.”
Ren said what he is doing is just to earn some living expenses, and compared
with physical restaurants, the biggest advantage is that he doesn’t invest in his store.
This advantage makes him stress less. And he is a big fan of cooking all the time.
“Unfortunately, Troy University does not have a cooking major,” Ren said.
“Otherwise, I must choose that.”
For those two different types of restaurants, the market targets are totally
different.
“Our targets are both Chinese students and American local people,” said Emily
Schofield, 28, one of the owners of Mr. Ho’s Chinese Buffet, from Holmes County,
Florida. “Most American people would like to order buffet or Chinese-American
food, like General Tso’s chicken, but Chinese students mostly order traditional
Chinese food, like Mapo tofu, which is my favorite traditional Chinese food.”
However, Ren said 99 percent of his customers are Chinese because he provides
only Chinese traditional food.
“Chinese students are enough for me, and I only know the Chinese cooking way
also,” Ren said.
Bang came to America in 1998, and his first restaurant was in Florida.
“I moved to Troy and opened Golden on March 2, 2009,” he said. “I have been
running restaurants more than 15 years, so I have the abundant experience to know
and combine Chinese flavor and American flavor.”
Bang said the biggest difference between the preferences of Chinese and
American people is that Chinese flavor is spicier and saltier, and American flavor is
sweeter.
“Nonetheless, if customers require waiters to recommend some Chinese
traditional dishes, we also would like to ask them to try it,” Bang said.
Meanwhile, Chinese and American people have different ways to eat. Bang said
Chinese people like to order many dishes, and all people at the table share with each
other, putting the various dishes together with the main food, which is rice.
But Americans may think this is not clean enough, he said. Many of them could
not accept this way, and they will order their own dishes and enjoy them.
Because Chinese people eat their own way, Ren has his own way to manage his
business.
“I adopt a membership system,” he said. “I will put my dining information on
social media, and ask for members who would like to eat dinner every night at my
home for one whole week. And I will put the menus online in advance. “The standard
is five meat dishes and two vegetable dishes, and I also accept a maximum of four
members in each week.”
“To make Chinese dishes is extremely complicated,” Shen said. “I do not think I
have that much time to do that and promise good flavor at the same time.”
But Ren said making Chinese dishes is an essential part of his life, and he also
chooses fewer academic classes than the normal student so that he can put more time
on what interests him.
“I used to do that, but this semester I got more credits than last, so I closed,” said
Jingwen Zhu, 21, a junior journalism major from Wulumuqi, China, who is a former
Chinese online restaurant owner. “It is a good way to kill your time and earn money.”
As for future plans, Ren said he wants to practice his cooking skill and go back
to China to run a Chinese restaurant.
“Chinese restaurants can give me home feeling,” said Meihao Tan, 20, a junior
journalism major from Deyang, China. “I think this is the most meaningful point of
Chinese restaurants’ existence.”
There are around 40,000 Chinese restaurants in America, which is more than all
McDonald’s, KFCs and Burger Kings combined, and also, more than 300,000
Chinese students are studying in America.
“I plan to move to Houston, Texas, to own a smaller restaurant in two years,”
Bang said. “Maybe the bigger city has more Chinese people.”
Contact information:
Bang Yulin: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Schofield Emily: 334-XXX-XXXX
Shen Hong: XXX-372-XXXX
Ren Yuxin: XXX-XXX-X479
Zhu Jingwen: XXX-XXX-2459
Tan Meihao: XXX-XXX-8229
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Hall School of Journalism and Communication
Final Reporting Project Guidelines
The final project in JRN 2201 allows you to showcase the writing and reporting skills
learned this term in your Reporting class. You will be responsible for enterprising,
researching and writing a two-part package of news stories relating to a single theme.
For this project, you will create three items:
1. A main story (800 to 1,000 words, including at least one hyperlink)
2. A sidebar (400 to 500 words, including at least one hyperlink)
3. A multimedia element such as a photo gallery, chart, informational graphic,
audio file or video.
The topic can be local, state, national or international, but you must talk to people
who can provide authoritative information. Talk to as many sources as are necessary
to give you two complete, fair and balanced stories — probably six or more sources
for your main story and three or more sources for your sidebar.
Your hypothetical audience for the whole project is the students who read the
Tropolitan.
You could have a main story about an issue or a situation and a human-interest
sidebar, in which you focus on a particular person or a small group of people deeply
affected by the main story. Or the people might be your main story, with the sidebar
describing the general situation. (As you collect information, you may find that what
you intended to be the sidebar would be better as the main story. That’s usually OK.
Just get the professor’s approval.)
Previous successful ideas include:
Financial aid — how to get it, and one student’s triumph over the system
Credit cards — why so many solicitations, and one student’s struggle with debt
Parking — why university officials say you need to just stop whining and walk
that hundred yards, and how one student found the rules expensive to ignore.
The multimedia element cannot be something you found on the Internet or elsewhere.
It must be something you created yourself. A single photograph is not sufficient,
although a gallery or PowerPoint presentation of five or six original photos will be
fine. You must include captions and/or other text necessary to make your photos,
videos, audio or other materials understandable to the reader.
You must consult the professor about the multimedia element and obtain his approval
before doing it.
Your final project must be of publishable quality. In fact, publication in a recognized
publication will earn you extra credit for this course.
There will be four steps to creating your final project in JRN 2201:
Step 1: Complete the form in Blackboard describing your final project proposal and
the sources you plan to use (you can just list types of sources if you don’t have actual
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names yet).
Step 2: Attend one or more mandatory private conferences with the instructor to
discuss the progress of your stories and your plans for a multimedia element. Before
the first conference, you must have spoken with at least two of your sources.
Step 3: Submit polished drafts of your two stories. These drafts will be returned with
feedback. You should use these comments to improve your final stories, paying
careful attention to all details.
Step 4: Submit your final project — two stories and the multimedia element — for
grading.
Put your name on each item, and label one story as the main story and the other as the
sidebar. Indent paragraphs and double-space, using the software settings we have
discussed in class.
Grading will be based on criteria including the following:
Ledes
Content
Adequate information
Adequate sources
Readability and relevance to readers (no butt-grinder stories allowed!)
Organization
Interview development and effective use of quotes
Appropriateness of topic for target audience
Suitability for publication
AP style
Spelling
Punctuation
Grammar/usage/clarity
Multimedia element
Lack of errors
Following directions
The final project is worth 15 percent of your final grade in JRN 2201. In addition,
failure to turn in a final project will result in an additional one-letter-grade
reduction in your course final grade.
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Name
Sidebar
Chinese students working in Chinese restaurants in Troy are a normal
phenomenon. Two Chinese restaurant owners gave their reasons.
“I would like to provide some job positions to help Chinese students earn some
living expenses,” said Yulin Bang, 62, the owner of Golden Crane Chinese restaurant,
from Taiwan.
Golden Crane opened on March 2, 2009. Before it opened, many Chinese
students would go to Montgomery to find Chinese restaurants and work there.
“Golden Crane has been open eight years,” Bang said. “Loads of students went
out from Golden to many places in various walks of life in America or China. Most of
them are keeping in touch with me.”
In some Chinese students’ view, Golden just like a family.
“I have been Golden’s waiter for more than one year,” said Xianrui Ning, 22, a
junior journalism major from Chengdu, China. “Bang is like a father for me in
America.”
Ning said Bang not only gave him a job but also gave him a lot of help in life.
“He will ask how my studying is going often,” Ning said. “When I have troubles — if
I need my car fixed, for example — he will help me a lot.”
“Another reason that I only recruit Chinese students for my employees is
because of culture affinity,” Bang said. “Working lunch, the introduction of dishes to
consumers, and so on and so forth will become more convenient.”
For some Chinese students, a Chinese restaurant seems the best choice for a parttime job in Troy.
“It is a higher salary than working on campus,” said Wenyuan Fan, who was a
Golden Crane waiter and graduated from Troy University as an accounting major in
July. “We will also throw some parties for Golden employees to increase
relationships. At the same time, I could practice English speaking when I was serving
local American people. I believe it is a really good memory for my life.”
Meanwhile, the language is another advantage for Chinese students.
“We hire Chinese students because some Chinese students just come to America
in a short time with not good English, so our Chinese waiters can help them to order
and give them home feeling,” said Emily Schofield, 28, one of the owners of Mr.
Ho’s Chinese Buffet, from Holmes County, Florida.
“Most Chinese students’ tuition depends on their parents in Troy, and they are
not independent enough compared with American students,” Bang said. “However,
when they earn their own money, it means they are becoming mature, although their
salary could not satisfy all their spending.”
Bang said in Formosan, Golden Crane sounds like “pretty good.” He hopes all
Chinese students are doing pretty well right now and in the future.
Contact Information:
Bang Yulin: 850-339-XXXX
Emily Schofield: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ning Xianrui: 3XX-XX8-XXXX
Fan Wenyuan: Facebook
Food problem – how Chinese students buy Asian food in the United States.
More than 300,000 Chinese students studying in the United States are the largest
of all international students studying in the United States. When they left their
country, the first thing that was recalled was family and food. How to buy real
Asian food in the United States is a very important issue.
I will interview some of the Chinese people studying in the United States, they
have a profound understanding of this problem and view. On the other hand, I
will interview some of the food sales of Chinese food shopkeepers, they
understand what is Chinese students need.
Please follow this theme to complete your writing, I will be
shooting and the theme related to the characters and things. You
need to follow this topic interview and write.
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