COM-225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Style Guide, News Values, Abbreviation

• School: University of Tampa
• Department: Communication
• Course: COM-225
• Professor: Novak

Document Summary

Ties into fact errors, can"t even be off by 1 word! People won"t believe it if it isn"t accurate. Few people in the field want to be false. Even if you disagree or it makes you sick. No complex terms no fancy words to sound smart. Original purpose of writing is to communicate ideas. Anything that draws away from content is ineffective. Avoid piling adjectives and phrases on top of each other. Wording that only sounds right in a particular group or socioeconomic area. Special meaning to a certain group of people. Set the stage; pull the readers into the world of the story. Don"t assume the readers know about the story. Not written in chronological order, but the time sequence must be clear. For clarity sake some facts may be repeated, not usually. Inverted pyramid used in newspaper and web, in some broadcasting. Info should be presented in order of importance, priority 1 goes in 1st paragraph.