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Demonstration: Adding in missing information

Demonstration: Adding in missing information

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Demonstration: Adding in missing information

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- [Instructor] Okay, welcome back. Here are a couple of ideas I had for making the article a bit richer. First, we could add in a bit of very recent research, for example, on the harm that sugar can do, if there's some latest survey or something that we found, or could ask the author to find that could deepen and enrich the article, perhaps when an organization is viewed as having a lot of credibility in this area. Second, I think the piece could do with some balanced perspective from the soft drinks industry. Not only could we say what the basis of their opposition to the new system is from their point of view, but we could add in a quotation from a drinks industry representative, for example, if we wanted. Now, these are quite common considerations from a journalism perspective. But, depending on the kind of thing you're writing, the weighting of different types of information would be different. The important thing is that you have taken this step to just consider anything that…

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