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Terms
Different Types of Leads
Differnt Styles
Subcategory for Styles
Other Things You Need to Know
100
The most important piece of information the writer wants to get across
What is the Central Point
100
When the writer supplies a twist
What is A Surprise Lead
100
The style most news organizations use
What is Associated Press Style
100
The beginning of a story in the hourglass style
What is The Top
100
The first paragraph of a news story
What is Summary Lead
200
The beginning of a story
What is The Lead
200
When readers are asked a direct question
What is Question Lead
200
A style that has four parts and is a favorite of The Wall Street Journal
What is Focus Style
200
The transition paragraph in the hourglass style
What is The Turn
200
How you figure out the central point
What is The Five W's and H
300
An excercise many professionals use to move the ideas in their heads onto the screen or paper
What is Free Writing
300
When readers are told to do something
What is Direct Address Lead
300
A combination of inverted pyramid and narrative styles
What is Hourglass Style
300
The conclusion often a quotation saved for last in the focus style
What is The Kicker
300
Most news stories are written using this format
What is The Inverted Pyramid
400
New agencies that send out syndicated news items to media by means of telephones wires or satellites
What is Wire Services
400
Starts the story with something one of the subjects has said
What is Quotation Lead
400
A story telling style
What is Narrative Style
400
The bottom part of the story in the hourglass style
What is The Narrative
400
Text
What is Copy
500
Also known as hot type
What is Linotype
500
Allows the writer to become a storyteller and hint at interesting things to come
What is Descriptive Lead
500
Used in the focus style when a paragraph states the central point of a story
What is The Nut Graph
500
The paragraph that states the central story in the focus style
What is The Nut Graph
500
Something you use for writing short
What is A Checklist