Write a CATW Introduction for the CATW article below.

CATW Introduction Drill # 1
Directions: Write a CATW Introduction for the CATW article below.
A complete introduction paragraph must contain the following ingredients:
1) Introduction to the title and author incorporated into your paragraph (1 point)
2) The article’s main idea (2 points)
3) All key supporting details (4 points)
4) Your thesis, using the word should (1 point)
5) Lastly, all of this information must be written in your own words. We absolutely do not include
quotes in our introductions! (2 points)
News Affects Our Behavior – by Susan bolder
Most of us get news of the day from radio and television. And the kind of news we get from radio and TV affects our behavior toward other people. The good news we get from radio and TV makes us feel more friendly and kindly toward other people. Good news gives us a sense that other people are like brothers and sisters to us. Bad news makes us feel that other people are our enemies and that we are living in a precarious world.
These are the findings of 10 years of experiments by research psychologists at Columbia University in New York City. The psychologists did tests to see how people behaved toward one another after being exposed to news broadcasts.
In one test, people were asked to help one another in solving a difficult puzzle. At different times, the people were asked to stop working on the puzzle and to listen to a news story on the radio. After hearing good news, the people worked well with each other in trying to solve the puzzle. After hearing bad news, the people were hostile and angry towards one another and engaged in competition instead of cooperation in trying to solve the puzzle.
Dr. Henry Hornstein, one of the Columbia University Psychologists, explained the results of the test. “News of some person doing something cruel or harmful to another person makes us feel that other people are mostly evil, so we don’t want to have anything to do with the people around us.” Hornstein also explained that good news has the opposite effect on us, “When we hear news about how one person helped another person, then we see the people around us as mostly good, and we like to work with them.
Dr. Susan Hollowayi, another Columbia University researcher, believes that TV and radio emphasize bad news stories of crime and violence. She thinks that broadcasts should present more good-news stories—stories of human kindness and cooperation. “By giving so much time to bad news stories,” she says, “radio and makes us feel that the world is a much worse place to live than it really is. “

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