Examples of Properly Written Leads

Well written leads:

I believe this a good display of a properly written lead because of all the information that is released early in the story. It is also a good lead because it lets the reader want to keep reading about it if it concerns them in any way.

This is a well written lead because it identifies many of the 5 W's and H. On the contrary, it leaves you puzzled to whether anyone was hurt or how extensive the damage was, which makes you want to continue reading.

Choosing this as a well written lead was an obvious choice. Not only does it concern Nebraskan's, but almost everything that would be in the article was covered in the first few sentences.

This lead is proven a well written lead for many reasons. The lead is very eye grabbing, which makes you want to continue on with the story and finish reading the entire article. Also it is very informative about the information that the article contains.

I chose this as a well written lead because it can relate to a very wide audience. The movie ghostbusters was a enormous hit in the 90's when it was originally was released and a large amount of people who would read the lead would continue on with the rest of the story because of their interest with the movie.