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Writing A News Article

Writing A News Article. ICap Spring 2014 Brittany Biesiada. Basic Format. Information is formatted in descending order of importance Inverted pyramid Most important information goes at the top. Types of Sentences. Unbiased Clear writing Explain any difficult language/concepts.

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Writing A News Article

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  1. Writing A News Article ICap Spring 2014 Brittany Biesiada

  2. Basic Format • Information is formatted in descending order of importance • Inverted pyramid • Most important information goes at the top.

  3. Types of Sentences • Unbiased • Clear writing • Explain any difficult language/concepts.

  4. Paragraphs • Remember quotations start a new paragraph. • New idea=new paragraph • Paragraphs should be clear and concise. • 1-3 sentence max.

  5. In Your Article • Title • Medium: Photo/Chart/Graph/etc. • Lead • Describe your group • Describe the research method • Describe what you discovered

  6. A Lead • The one-sentence summary of your article. • Like introductions, leads are often the most difficult part of writing a news article. • What goes in a lead: • Who • What • When • Where • How

  7. Example: • What do you some of your articles use as their lead?

  8. Activity • In groups, organize the following sentences: • They wanted to bring awareness to the public. • Hundreds of people dressed up in gorilla outfits. • The awareness they want to make public concerns the plight of apes. • The apes are endangered. • They ran through the streets of London. 

  9. Activity Now organize the paragraph into a single sentence. • They wanted to bring awareness to the public. • Hundreds of people dressed up in gorilla outfits. • The awareness they want to make public concerns the plight of apes. • The apes are endangered. • They ran through the streets of London. 

  10. Activity Now reduce your word count as low as you can. • They wanted to bring awareness to the public. • Hundreds of people dressed up in gorilla outfits. • The awareness they want to make public concerns the plight of apes. • The apes are endangered. • They ran through the streets of London. 

  11. Making an Outline • Lead: your main research question • Describe your group • Research method • Topics in descending order of importance • Main research • Lexis • Social networking • Quote • Summary quote • Communication • Quote

  12. Quoting • From your interviews, you should use relevant quotations to make your article more interesting. • Remember making up quotations is plagiarism. • Use quotes that are relevant to the paragraph you are writing. • Remember quotation format: A quote is always its own paragraph.

  13. Quoting • In a newspaper article, always use “said.” • Need to state whether it was an interview (implies in-person) or e-mail interview • Only use name if given permission, otherwise • Ex: Interviewee A, a 19-year-old male junior at Purdue

  14. Types of quotations • Normal quote • “It was a fun time,” Michelle Davis said. • “I had a good time,” Davis said. • Summary quote • Davis, a member of the group, said everyone had a great time and 23 people attended.  

  15. Types of quotations • Long quote • “I had a good time.  It was super fun, I loved being there. The event was awesome.  We had an excellent turn-out, like twenty people came,” Davis said.

  16. Types of quotes • How to edit quotes: • “I had a good time.  It was super fun… We had an excellent turn-out,” Davis said. • “I had a good time. [It was] super fun,” Davis said.

  17. Summarizing • In news writing: You briefly summarize the main topic of your essay then elaborate with the most important info first. • Must suspend your own beliefs to report unbiased and summarize.

  18. Summarize • In news writing, you are not writing to prove a thesis. • You must must summarize both sides of your results. • i.e.what you expected to learn and what you actually learned

  19. Reading your article: • Read your article and summarize it to the class. • What is the main point? • How do they use quotations? • Is the most important information listed first? • How do they explain any complicated procedure/method/language/idea?

  20. Sample writing exercise: • From the practice lead, write two paragraphs to follow. • Use your imagination. • You may create a quote. • You may explain the group, what else happened that day, etc.

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