Final Exam Review

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

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