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You are a reporter for the Features desk of a local monthly news magazine, writing an article on popular astronomy for the general public.
You work as a reporter for Around Town magazine, a local lifestyles periodical. Your editor assigns you the job of writing the magazine’s main feature for the month of August: an article on the Perseid meteor shower. The goal of your article is to help readers understand the causes of meteor showers, and to inspire them to go outside and view the meteors during the shower’s peak. The article you write will also need to draw people’s attention to the magazine, prompting them to pick it up from the magazine rack and take it home with them. Additionally, your article must adhere to the magazine’s writer’s guidelines, included below.
The files below contain information and visuals that you may use in your article.
The individuals, organizations, and publications listed in files 1 and 3 are entirely fictional. We have created these documents so that you may learn how to use sources effectively and appropriately before conducting original research of your own.
The information included in Files 2 and 4 is authentic, however.
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