Final Exam Review
1. Timeliness - News about a recent story.
2. Proximity - News about places near your publication. Close
3. Human Interest - News that causes people to have emotion. Drama that surrounds people involved in emotional struggle. Appealing
4. Prominence - News about a widely known person, organization, or place. "newsworthy" importance
5. Conflict- News about problems that give the reader tension and suspense. Opposing forces.
1-5 multiple choice
6. Interviews - takes place any time a reporter asks a question, information from source
7. Research - careful study that is done to find and report new knowledge about something. Reporter does to prepare for interview.
8. Quotations - source’s exact words. What you get from source.
9. Yes-no question - A direct question designed to draw a specific response, close ended.
10. follow-up question - Question that is generated after original question to get reader to elaborate. Add additional information.
6-10 Fill in blank
6-10 Fill in blank
Know what is most objective writing
11. Objective writing - No opinions or editorials.
12. Transition paragraph - A paragraph that moves the reader from one thought to the next and shows the relationship between them. In between quotes.
13. Hard news story - Coverage of the actions of government or business; or the reporting of an event, such as a crime, an accident or a speech. The time element often is important. Timely and breaking news.
14. Soft news story - Stories about trends, personalities or lifestyles. The time element usually is not important. Can be old or in future, not breaking news.
15. Inverted Pyramid - The organization of a news story in which information is arranged in descending order of importance. Writing structure for hard news story.
16. Third-person point of view - Speaking from above, using key words like she, he, they or the name of the person.
17. 5 Ws and H lead - What, when, where, why, who and how. Use in lead or beginning of story. Hard news story.
18. editing - Revising a piece of work. Prepare (written material) for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it.
12-18 Multiple choice
19. attribution - to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider ascaused by something indicated. Source/credit
20. paraphrase - Summarize a story, article or work that is not yours. Indirect quote. Give them credit. Rewriting.
21. fragmentary quotation - Single word of short phrase used by source
23. partial quotation - A full quote is "introduced" with a comma or a colon.
22. direct quotation - Word for word exact quote of what source said.
19 - 23 in word bank
24. Uses of quotations - For feeling and emotions, should not be facts.
25. When to use quotations -
26. When quotations are unnecessary or not desired -
27. Editorial - Opinion of newspaper as a whole. Often decided by editorial board group of editors. Always written in third person. comes up 3 times
28. editorial page - All of opinions of newspaper appear. Columns, Staff box.
29. columns - Written by one person their point of view on a particular topic.
Given sentence know which one is which 30-33
30. editorial that criticizes -
31. editorial that explains -
32. editorial that persuades -
33. letter to the editor - General public writes the letter.
27-33 in word bank or true false some are repetitive.
300-400 word stories
27-33 in word bank or true false some are repetitive.
300-400 word stories
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