Hello everybody. I have been reading some of your blogs; they are fantastic. A suggestion that I have for you all is to edit your posts before you publish them.
Also, I need two students from each class to assist me in editing the school paper. This project will be done during class time.
Below is a list of terms that you be quizzed on. The quiz will be Friday for all classes.
1. newsspeak - language that distorts, confuses or hides reality.
2. sound bite - the videotaped quote in television news.
3. Euphemism -a milder word used instead of another word that might be offensive.
4. Profile - feature story about a person.
5. Stet - a term meaning let it stand.
6. Retraction - a printed correction of an earlier error in the paper.
7. Label Head - a headline without a verb ; to be avoided.
8. Editorializing - inserting the writer's opinion into a news story, which should be written objectively.
9. Cutoff test - reporter's check that final paragraphs are not essential to story.
10. Center of visual interest - the dominant item on a page - usually a photo.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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