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Article Structure
Conventions of English
Credibility
The Lead
Headlines
100
When viewed geometrically, the structure of a news article looks like an upside down triangle and is therefore called this.
What is an inverted pyramid?
100
All articles should be written in this "person" using only the pronouns he, she, it, they.
What is 3rd person?
100
A journalist who erases these pronouns from his or her writing is automatically more objective.
What are first person pronouns?
100
A good lead will be all of these things.
What is brief, honest, interesting, informative, and specific?
100
To write a passable headline, a journalist can do this to a summary lead.
What is boil it down to only the most important details?
200
At the beginning of an article, a journalist must write a summary lead which tells the reader this.
What is all of the most important facts of the story (5 Ws and 1 H)?
200
This is the only time a question mark should be inside a quotation mark.
What is when there is a question within the quotation marks?
200
In order to be considered credible, a journalist must do this to all non-obvious information in his or her writing.
What is attribute information to a credible source?
200
This is the purpose of the lead.
What is to capture the reader?
200
A good headline will eliminate all of these parts of speech (a, an, the).
What are articles.
300
A quotation should bring life to previously mentioned facts and never do this.
What is deliver the facts?
300
This is the only time that a period should be on the inside of the quotation mark.
What is always.
300
One of the reasons that it is hard to believe tabloid articles is that the attribution is this adjective.
What is vague?
300
A lead should be one of these, all by itself.
What is a paragraph?
300
This is one of the two tenses that a good headline can be in.
What is present or infinitive?
400
Immediatly following the lead should be a number of paragraphs that do this.
What is elaborate on the facts in the lead?
400
This punctuation must be used after a prepasitional phrase that starts sentence (After school we'll meet at the store).
What is a comma?
400
A credible journalist will allow his or her sources and subjects this courtecy after checking facts.
What is the right of reply?
400
A lead should never exceed this many sentences.
What is two?
400
While a headline should grab the reader's attention, a credible journalist will only write a headline that is this.
What is honest.
500
Short paragraphs are used in news articles for this reason.
What is to deliver information in easy to read and understand chunks?
500
This is why the statement "I only eat vegetables" is grammatically incorrect.
What is the modifier "only" is misplaced.
500
An opinion in a news article destroys a journalist's credability because it makes the journalist this.
What is biased? (I'll accept subjective)
500
The best way to add llife to your lead is to back it up with one of these.
What is a quotation?
500
When refering in writing to an article by its headline, a writer must to this to the headline.
What is put it in quotation marks?