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Today I attend a lecture about journalism :"How to raise questions critically" The professor from America is very nice and kindful. Although there are only a few numbers of students sitting scattered in the classroom, he is still focused and concentrated on what's he want to say. The only drawback is that he spoke too fast so I feel a little bit hard to comprehend the whole content. He posits that as a professional journalist, it's absolutely necessary to have a detailed preparation about the people you want to interview, including their backgrounds and career experiments. I think it's a suitable way to tell some specific stories to your readers. What's more, it could also contribute to the conversation between you and your interviewee to be more effective and connected. Then he mentioned the importance of outlines. A competent outline should be prioritized in your preparation. After all, if your interview is pointless and unworthy, everything in your report would lose its sense.

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Today I attended* a lecture about journalism: "How to raise questions critically".
The professor - who was from America - was very nice and kindful**. Although there were only a few numbers of students sitting scattered in the classroom, he was still focused and concentrated on what he wanted to say. The only drawback was that he spoke too fast, so I found it a little hard to comprehend the whole content.
He posited that as a professional journalist, it's absolutely necessary to have a detailed preparation about the people you want to interview, including their background*** and career experience. I think it's a suitable way to tell some specific**** stories to your readers. What's more, it could also help the conversation between you and your interviewee to be more effective and connected. Then he mentioned the importance of outlines. A competent***** outline should be prioritized in your preparation. After all, if your interview is pointless and unworthy, everything in your report would lose its sense.

*Generally speaking, if you are talking or writing about something that happened in the past, you should use the past tense. I notice that later in this piece, you switch to past tense. I'd stick with past tense all the way through, to be honest.
**I think you might have combined a couple of words here: 'kind' and 'helpful'. You can be kind and/or helpful, but you can't be kindful, because it doesn't exist as a word :)
*** 'background' in this context is uncountable.
**** I'm not sure why you've got 'some specific' here.
***** 'Competent' might be a bit weak here - in this context it means 'acceptable, satisfactory, but not outstanding.'
Hope this helps.

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