PPT-The 5W s and H of News Writing/Inverted Pyramid

Adapted from UIL website Nancy Gibson Journalism I The who lead   If the who is a person place or thing well known it is usually the feature of the lead The name alone attracts attention Unless one of the other elements is particularly outstanding the big name comes first. Writing a . News Report. Samples from 2010. Here are some samples of student work with grades from the 2010 OSSLT test..  . Please take some time to review the answers and the commentary on why . each student scored . savage. barbaric. bleak. eradication. defeat. victory. conquest. triumph. destruction. ruin. sad. exterminate. failure. aggressive. unfair. Words to describe the Indian wars.. In pairs, you are going to read through the words on the grid below. One person will read the words; the other person will put their hand up when the person has completed the reading.. Joslenne. Pena, Mary Beth . Rosson. College of Information Sciences & Technology. The Pennsylvania State University. Introduction. Technology is changing education. Instructors are constantly looking for new ways to engage students in an interactive environment. Dr Martin Hirst, News Reporting, AUT 2011. Beyond the inverted pyramid. Beyond the inverted pyramid. For the good journalist, writing news is first and foremost an exercise in intellectual . organisation. Writing for the ear instead of the eye of the audience. Have the courage to write simply.. -Merv Block. BROADCAST NEWS WRITING:. . Writing . for television and radio. . Keep . in mind. Listeners/viewers cannot “flip back” and review the information. And fun with other geometric shapes!. WHY is news reported?. Because people want to know what is happening. Journalists gather . info. rmation. . and summarize it. Collect it fairly and accurately. Present it in a simple format to audiences. Pyramid Speech Pillars. Directions. Choose four themes you want to work on when writing a new speech. Some examples are: Have a purpose, Communicate clearly, Educate, or Engage.. Write them in the triangle pillars on the next slide. . Evica Milchevski. . , . Avishek. . Anand. ★. and Sebastian Michel. . . University of Kaiserslautern . ★. L3S Research . Center. c. ontact. : . milchevski@cs.uni-. kl.de. Dating Portal. We will look at:. Commas ,. Inverted commas “. Apostrophes: omission (can’t) and possession (Will’s). Contractions I have I’ve. Commas. When would we use commas?. News Report. Samples from 2010. Here are some samples of student work with grades from the 2010 OSSLT test..  . Please take some time to review the answers and the commentary on why . each student scored . Sum it up, boil it down. Prioritize the five Ws (and an H). Rethink, revise, rewrite. Is it clear?. Is it active?. Is it wordy?. Is it compelling?. Is it news??????. Arthur Brisbane (. L.D.). “If you don’t hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.”. The Writing Centre Department of English 1 Your audience will greatly increase with the right lede for your newspaper article. Listed below are ways to improve your lede writing. What is a lede? A l What is . ap. ?. The . “. rulebook” . for newswriting. .. As AP says, . it’. s “part . dictionary, part textbook, part encyclopedia.. ”. Some guiding principles behind AP style are:. Consistency. WHEN TO USE INVERTED PYRAMID:. Breaking news stories . . N. ews . that is happening NOW or has just . happened. . Accidents. . Crime. . Fires. . Election . results. . Verdicts . in court .