NEWS WRITING

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 423.

UNIT 6

Written task (writing a news story)

Task 6

Task 5

Task 4

Task 3

Task 2

Task 1

1. Intertextuality; 2. Discourse practice; 3. Intereventness; 4. Time.

1. The inverted pyramid; 2. The narrative; 3. The hourglass.

1. Catchall paragraph (or back up); 2. Sales message (or impact); 3. Lead; 4. Background paragraph.

1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10.

1 – c; 2 – e; 3 – a; 4 – b; 5 – d.

1 - c; 2 - d; 3 - a; 4 - f; 5 - b; 6 - g; 7 - e.

Criteria:

1. Following the structure (3 points)

2. Observing linguistic peculiarities (3 points)

3. Representation of key discourse categories in the story (4 points)

Take away the newspaper – and this country of ours would become a scene of chaos. Without daily assurance of the exact facts – so far as we are able to know and publish them – the public imagination would run riot. Ten days without the daily newspaper and the strong pressure of worry and fear would throw the people of this country into mob hysteria – feeding upon rumors, alarms, terrified by bugbears and illusions. We have become the watchmen of the night and of a troubled day…

Harry Chandler

Being a journalist means to be able to work in different Mass Media: radio, television, on-line journalism and, of course, print media – newspapers and magazines.

This unit is devoted to newspapers, to be more exact, to writing news articles for newspapers in English.

Different journalistic cultures have different traditions. So, it concerns the British, as well as the American journalistic tradition. After studying this unit

you will know about

· the peculiarities of the content of news stories (representation of certain discourse categories in news items);

· the structure of news stories;

· the language of news stories;

· the interview as a method of gathering information for news stories (types of an interview, its structure and tools, ethics of conducting an interview);

· some careers in the sphere of print media;

· ethics of print media;

you will be able

· to analyze the representation of discourse categories in news stories;

· to write separate components of a news item;

· to write complete news stories.