KJB120 Lecture 3: KJB120- Lecture- Week 3
KJB120- Lecture 3
Lead tells what is new, (or a new aspect of a continuing story), or the most imposing part go for
rescue from danger of two women- one frail aged…
-another possible lead… or high in the story: A second house fire in the same area around the
same time- with an angle about folks coming home afterwards…
-maybe try to make a composite
-fire brigades were kept busy with 2 fires in the western suburb, and 2 women narrowly escape
with their lives
-dont write it for yourself
-write it as for someone else to read
-add a link
Structure for feature story
-Lead
-Body- of the story gives: supporting facts to fill out/ clarify what happened
-Subsidiary information-
-Next important idea, authenticate and illustrate, with maybe use of direct quotes here, giving the
emotion.
Police Said: “
-facts
Writing Style in News
-definition of style- attitude you show towards what you are writing
-in news, flair plus care, impression plus detail
-awareness
-sentence strucure: basic S-V-O
-complex sentences have independent clauses with one or more dependent clauses (compound
sentences put together independent clauses)
-Tense- simplified in english language (present, past, future, timeless present)
-Voice- active
-Clean Copy- points of grammar, as verb and subject to agree in number, spelling, pronouns,
punctuation, prepositions, clear and clean
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Document Summary
Lead tells what is new, (or a new aspect of a continuing story), or the most imposing part go for rescue from danger of two women- one frail aged . Another possible lead or high in the story: a second house re in the same area around the same time- with an angle about folks coming home afterwards . Re brigades were kept busy with 2 res in the western suburb, and 2 women narrowly escape with their lives. Write it as for someone else to read. Body- of the story gives: supporting facts to ll out/ clarify what happened. Next important idea, authenticate and illustrate, with maybe use of direct quotes here, giving the emotion. De nition of style- attitude you show towards what you are writing. In news, air plus care, impression plus detail. Complex sentences have independent clauses with one or more dependent clauses (compound sentences put together independent clauses)
