prize8-6, Exercise 2: A day on a rock station

Model answer (about 150 words; [D] documented in general accounts, [I] imagined):

The watch changes at six. [D] The keeper coming off has trimmed the lamp and checked the clockwork that turns the lens, and writes the weather in the log. [D] After breakfast the men clean the brass and polish the glass of the lantern, since a dirty lens cuts the range. [D] One keeper cooks and another mends a net; the third sleeps before his night watch. [I] In the afternoon the wind rises and the tender cannot land, so the stores wait for another day. [D] In the evening the lamp is lit at sunset, the log entry is made, and one keeper reads aloud from a newspaper weeks old. [I] The days differ little, and the men speak of their families and the next relief. [D]

Notes: the order of tasks and the delays to relief are well documented in memoirs and regulations; the individual events (the net, the newspaper) are imagined.

Care: do not present an imagined detail as evidence. Mark it.