How to Write a Report About Sally Ride
The experiences of astronaut Sally Ride provide plenty of material for an interesting report. Many resources are available on the subject of her life and work, both online and in the form of biographical books written for specifically for kids and adults. To come up with an effective report on the first American woman to travel in space, the writer should first spend some time reading about Sally Ride and then prioritizing and organizing the material.
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How to Write a Report About Sally Ride
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Read at least one complete biography of Sally Ride and three or four articles about her experiences. Make sure your reading covers such areas as her early life and education, her training as an astronaut, her experiences in space and what she has done in her post-astronaut days.
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Work on an introduction that gives an overview of Sally Ride's life. Start with basic information by giving her name and mentioning her major accomplishments. You can also include in your introduction one or two interesting bits of trivia about Ride that you do not plan to include in the report. Some writers finish the report first, if they plan to include an overview in their introduction.
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Write a section describing Ride's childhood, her education and her training. You might want to include information about her interest in science as a young person, the names of the schools and colleges she attended and in what subjects she majored. You might also take a sentence or two to explain the meaning of "astrophysicist" in order to make a link between Ride's studies and her future as an astronaut.
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Concentrate on Ride's experiences at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) for the bulk of your report. It might be interesting to discuss how she heard about the possibility of becoming an astronaut and how she was one of 8,000 applicants. In addition to discussing her journeys as a crew member aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983 and 1984, you might also want to discuss how she worked as a member of the ground crew before that and helped to develop a robotic arm, which she later used in space.
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Conclude your report with an overview of Ride's activities and accomplishments after she left NASA. You can include information about her teaching experiences, other work she has done for the space industry and the writing she has done, co-authoring books about science. You also can mention the Sally Ride Science organization and the Sally Ride Girls Science Camp.
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