Final Review

Multiple Choice:

1. Timeliness- The newness of facts or how recent it happened, reasons to write a story

2. Proximity-The nearness of a given event, how close the subject is to where you physically are

3. Human Interest- Appeals to human nature, strange or unique stories

4. Prominence- The "newsworthiness" of something, how important the subject is

5. Conflict- The meeting of two or more opposing forces

Word Bank Section(Pink): 

6. Interviews-  Conversation reporter conducts with a source

7. Research- What reporters should do after they decide the story and who they want to interview

8. Quotations- The words from your sources

9. Yes-no question- A question that can be answered with a yes or a no

10. follow-up question- Help get source to elaborate and give more information on a subject

Which sentence is most objective?:

11. Objective writing- A sentence that has little or no opinion in it at all

Multiple Choice: 

12. Transition paragraph- Paragraph that links quotations and paragraphs together

13. Hard news story- Timeliness is the difference between hard news and soft news, a timely, breaking news story is considered hard news

14. Soft news story- A little bit older of a piece and people may know about it ak

15. Inverted Pyramid- Writing style for hard news, most important stuff at top, less important stuff at the bottom

16. Third-person point of view- Way to write in everything but reviews and commentary, uses he, she or they in 3rd person pronouns

17. 5 Ws and H lead- Who, what, when, where, why, how: use them to create a lead in a hard news story

18. editing- prepare for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying the piece before publication

Word Bank: 

19. attribution- Give credit to source for what they said

20. paraphrase- Indirect quote, summary of what sources said(rewritten in a different way) 

21. fragmentary quotation- not a real thing

22. direct quotation- Exact, direct word for word account of what the source said

23. partial quotation- When a quote is imbedded without a introduction, uses '' punctuation 

24. Uses of quotations -

Multiple Choice: 

25. When to use quotations- To convey feelings and emotions, draw readers in

26. When quotations are unnecessary or not desired-  When the information is general knowledge

Word Bank: 

27. Editorial- Article that explains the newspapers opinion on a topic, generally there is an editorial board that decides what the editorial will be

28. editorial page- A page(s) in the newspaper where the editorials, columns, opinion pieces, political cartoons, reviews, and the staff box, written by one person but is the stance of the whole paper

29. columns- Article written by an individual person that expresses their opinion on a topic

30. editorial that criticizes- The editorial criticizes the piece, they feel something is right or wrong

31. editorial that explains- The editorial explains something that is going on in a community

32. editorial that persuades- Editorial trying to get someone to change their minds, offering specific solutions
True/ False Questions: 

33. letter to the editor- Something written by someone in the community to the newspaper

PART 2: 300 word news story(Inverted pyramid)
Part 3: 400 word opinion story, defend stance and repeat stance
EC: Write second opinions story and/or take current events quiz