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Demonstration: Creating a snazzy ending

Demonstration: Creating a snazzy ending

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Demonstration: Creating a snazzy ending

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- [Instructor] So here's where I've tried to create a snazzy ending, to match up and link up with the beginning that we have there, this anecdotal lede, and the angle that we've created. And here's what I've thought up, again, coming back to Ravi's story, where we've just finished talking about the soft drink manufacturers being against it. Now I'm gonna round off by saying "The changes "may have come too late for diabetes patients "like Ravi Fernando. "But he hopes that with traffic-light labeling, "other kids will be able to make smarter decisions, "especially if they have sporty ambitions as he once did." And then we could finish off with a quotation from him, saying, "'If I'd had a better idea of which drinks were "likely to cause the most harm to my health,' he said, "'I'd definitely have steered clear of the worst of them.'" Okay, now, that's just one possible way of rounding off to give a sense of completeness to the whole narrative. Again, it's not appropriate to have these…

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