Cour Outline
Introduction
This cour is offered as a subject Journalism for cond year or third year, and also available as an elective to other students. Although the content is the same, Journalism students must complete an additional asssment task.
Subject Descriptionchildren怎么读
The purpos of this subject are to develop news reading and writing skills for the print media, and help to understand the difference between English news and Chine news.
Students will be introduced to a range of core themes, including identifying story ideas, news writing style, lecting and reporting the news, writing according to a traditional inverted pyramid approach, and writing specialized types of stories.
Asssment is built around the development of fundamental reading and writing skills, including the ability to convey often complex information in a conci way, the ability to analyze news written by different news agency. Students will be expected to submit a range of stories and other writing tasks for
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Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to:
1.Understand the basic principles of news writing.
2.Identify story angles in news events/issues.nationality是什么意思
3.Be able to rearch stories and conduct interviews that add significa ntly to a story’s
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4. Write news stories that will appeal to a broad readership.
Attributes
In meeting the objectives, students will develop skills relevant to the following: 1. A commitment to continued and independent learning, intellectual development, critical analysis and creativity.
2. Self-confidence combined with oral and written skills of a high level.
3. A capacity for, and understanding of, teamwork.
4. An ability to analyze issues logically, as well as to evaluate different options and
viewpoints and to implement decisions.
5. An appreciation and valuing of cultural and intellectual diversity and the ability to function in a multicultural or global environment.
Chapter 1:
Format and Style
Overview
News reporter have developed a very different format and writing style so as to express all kinds of information to the reader clearly and accurately. The rules are so important and basically ud that students in this field should master it before they begin their reporter careers.
In this chapter, we will learn:
1. Start your news story with the news format, though it can finely vary between one newspaper and another;
2. U special editing-symbols listed here to correct all the errors after you finished the news story;
3. Double check the accuracy of every fact reported in the news stories you write, make sure that there are no more name, number, place and other spelling mistakes;
certificate craze4. Avoid xual and other stereotypes in your news stories.
Content
ⅠFormat And Style
Although most newsrooms no longer contain typewriters, students must still learn the traditional news story format and copy-editing symbols, for a number of reasons:
1. Newspapers that have not installed the electronic equipment continue to u the traditional format and copy-editing symbols and to employ some typetters.
怀疑2. Reporters and editors may have to handle some typewritten copy from free-lance writers, public relations agencies and a variety of other sources.
3. The traditional format and copy-editing symbols are still ud by some magazines, book publishers and advertising agencies.
老友记电影版ⅡNews Story Format
Reporters have developed a unique format for their stories, and each story you write should follow the guideline suggested here.
renee1. Type each news story on parate 8 by 11-inch sheets of paper
2. Type your name, the date and a slug line in the upper left-hand corner of the first page.
Example:
Slug line can help reporters identify and keep track of stories that are being prepared for publication. It also provides a quick summary of each story’s topic.
A. Slug line should not exceed two or three words and should be as specific as possible, but not vague slug line.
Example:
Mayor’s Speech (good)
School Fire
Speech (vague，might be confud with each other) Fire
B. Avoid jokes, sarcasm and statements of opinion that would cau embarrassment if the slug line were accidentally published, as sometimes happens.
Example:
A reporter in California was asked to write about a party given by veral prominent women. He slugged it “Old Biddies”
Example:
A writer at the Boston Globe wrote the slug line to criticize a speed given by President Carter，so the lead editorial published the next morning bore the headline, “ Mush from the Wimp. ”
3. Begin each story one-third to one-half of the way down the first page. The space at the first page provides room for your byline, a headline and special instructions to your paper’s typetters.
4. Newspapers place a dateline at the beginning of the first line of each news story to indicate the story’s geographical source.
A. Dateline includes the name of the city, printed entirely in capital letters and followed by a comma, the abbreviation for the state in upper/lower ca and a dash.
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Example:
LEXINGTON, Ky.----
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B. Some major cities such as Boston, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, are ud alone, without their state.
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C. Local news do not add the name of the state, u only name of other cities,
