The punctuation belongs here when using a direct quote.
What is inside the quotation marks
100
Trimming all of the extra words out of a sentence - most notably a headline - is this style.
What is telegraphic style?
100
This one skill is so basic to Journalism that anyone who does not have it - or want to develop it - may as well get out of this class.
What is writing?
100
As a journalist you should watch carefully for this – deliberate or accidental – regarding race, age, gender, sexual orientation or philosophy of life.
What is bias?
100
For the most part, headlines are written in this tense to create a sense of immediacy.
What is present tense?
200
This is the second most important paragraph in a news story
What is the back-up quote?
200
This person can help make you a proficient writer by having you write - and re-write a lot.
Who is Mr. Curtis?
200
We do not have one of these so we rely on the AP Manual of Style.
What is a stylebook?
200
These terms are ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN unless used in a very rare direct quote.
What are offensive terms related to racial or ethnic backgrounds?
200
51 percent of the U.S. population is female, so we do this to eliminate sexist language in our writing.
What is not writing as if every person on earth is male?
300
This type of headline is big on top and small on bottom.
What is a Hammerhead Headline?
300
This is a story related to but kept seperate from another on the same subject.
What is a sidebar?
300
The advent of this has forced news writing to become more of a story telling - or narrative - style.
What is the internet and/or instant news?
300
It is acceptable to refer to teachers and administrators as this the first time they are mentioned in a story.
What is their first name?
300
When I give you information to be used as fact in a story - but not as a quote - it is this type of information.
What is background?
400
This is one of the two alternatives to the inverted pyramid style of writing.
What is narrative (or story telling) OR the combination style?
400
Normally only these three punctuation marks are used in a headline.
What are commas, quotation marks and semicolons?
400
These take your reader from subject to subject, place to place, time to time and fact to fact.
What are transitions?
400
This is where the proper study of Journalism begins.
What is English class?
400
Any headline - or paragraph - that is pushed against the far left side of the page or column is known as this.
What is flush left?
500
These four months do not have abbreviations.
What are April, May, June and July?
500
This headline style features a sub-headline OVER one or more lines of the primary headline.
What is a kicker?
500
This is the proper way to refer to they mayor of a city after his/she has been introduced already.
What is Mr./Ms. Mayor
500
When writing headlines - or anything for that matter - we normally avoid writing in this format because it is perceived as yelling at or hostile to the reader.
What is all caps?
500
To be a good writer, you need to be this (three items.)
What is comfortable with words, know a good sentence from a bad sentence and able to apply the fundamentals of grammar, spelling and punctuation?