Media, Information and Technoculture 2154F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Occupy Movement, Nextdoor
14 Sep 2016
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Your lead or first sentence is usually the most important. With news stories you tend to start with the most important items and then work your way to the least important. In other words, the opposite of some fiction. Paragraphs are kept short one to three sentences at most. Exceptions, as always in writing, with such magazines as the atlantic or the new yorker. But we"ll be thinking mostly newspapers or the online versions of them for this course. There are no grammatical guidelines, it"s simply the look stems from the columns of print in the newspaper. You must attribute comments to people or sources. That"s why you see he said or she said in most stories: information first she said or he said is usually after or at the end, because the fact is more important than who really said it. Don"t misspell names, double check your facts, be grammatically correct: discredits your article not credible.
