Inverted pyramid
Contains nonessential facts.
What is the bottom of the inverted pyramid?
The length of AP leads.
What is short?
This is how often a quote lead should be used.
What is sparingly or infrequently?
The most important part of a story.
What is the lead?
Coaxing a reader into the story by making him/her want to know what lead refers to.
What is tease lead?
This is how an inverted pyramid is arranged.
What is in descending order of importance?
This tells who said or wrote something.
What is attribution?
This means that no information was given about why a person said a quote.
What is context (or lack of context)?
This activity involves gathering and organizing story information.
What is prewriting?
In a sports article, the lead tells what about a basketball game?
What is the outcome (who won)?
Contains the lead.
What is the top of the inverted pyramid?
The reason an AP lead is good for a lazy journalist.
What is because it is easy to write?
The number of sentences in a typical lead.
What is 1 or 2?
The stage following the first draft.
What is revising/editing?
AP leads are also known as this.
What are summary leads?
These are the 5 w's and h.
What is who, what, when, where, why, and how?
This is what the acronym AP means.
What is Associated Press?
This means to avoid expressing the writer's opinion.
What is objective?
A verb that includes present tense action.
What is a "lively" verb?
To write a lead, a reporter must be able to recognize what value?
What is newsworthy or news value?
The headline writer uses the top part of the inverted pyramid for what?
What is to decide on a headline?
The AP lead begins with this.
What is the news?
Effective leads us this length of sentence.
What is short?
This means to order news stories according to order of events.
What is chronological?
This type of lead contains little or no information about the news.
What is a question lead?