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Writing
Jargon
Editing
Articles
Format
100
The use of any part of another's writing and passing it off as your own.
What is plagiarism?
100
Part of the story that communicates the 5 Ws and the H. First paragraph.
lead
100
These mistakes involve using commas to join two independent clauses without a conjunction
comma splices
100
Stories that are considered to be not immediately important or significant to a wide audience such s personality feature stories or "news you can use" columns.
What is soft news?
100
What format is a news article typically written in?
inverted pyramid
200
Subjective/Objective? Writing that expresses the writer's opinion and view point. In a newspaper, this belongs on the editorial page.
subjective writing
200
Summarizes the news story and draws the reader's attention Must contain a subject/verb/direct object
headline
200
This mistake involves not giving credit to the source (text or person).
missing attribution
200
How many facts should be the focus of a paragraph in a news article?
one
200
What is the rule for formatting direct quotes?
They should occupy their own paragraph with no other information.
300
Subjectivity/Objectivity: Ability to make fair, neutral observations about people and events.
objectivity
300
Written exactly as the person said it;it appears inside quotation marks.
direct quotation
300
What point of view must a reporter use when writing news articles?
3rd person
300
A lead for a news article should not be longer than ___ words.
40
300
What style do journalists use?
AP
400
To put a speaker's words into the reporter's own words without changing the meaning or inserting opinion. Used to clarify lengthy, fuzzy or complicated thoughts. They do not have to be used in quotation marks,but they do have to be attributed.
What is paraphrase?
400
Written as a paraphrase of what the person said
indirect quotation
400
What capitalization rule is used for headlines?
Capitalize the first word and proper nouns only.
400
What kind of reporting involves newsworthy events which occur over several days or weeks, so that articles can continually be updated?
enterprise reporting
400
____ tie each paragraph of a news story together and function as links between pieces of information in the story.
transitions
500
What grammatical rule governs attributions?
subject, then verb
500
Journalistic lingo for paragraph (must be spelled)
graf
500
What tense should the BODY of the news article be written in? The headline?
past tense; present tense
500
What is a category of news stories called?
a beat
500
What are the two types of transitions you used when writing news articles?
fact transitions and quote transitions