The Structure of a News Article

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 355.

TASK 1

Now you can practice your skills in analyzing news stories from the point of view of the representation of the discourse categories in their content. You are offered to get divided into small groups or if you wish you may work in pairs and find any news story in American or British newspapers (or their e-versions in the Internet). Read these stories and identify how the above described discourse categories are reflected in these particular articles. Present your analysis to your groupmates.

Every newspaper genre has a particular structure which helps organize the information of the story in a certain way, logically and thus make it familiar for the readers to read and comprehend the article.

• Do you like writing articles? Would you like to devote your career to print media?

· Have you ever thought about writing stories in English? Where could you print your own stories?

The text “Story Structure” written by Jim Hall [1] will give you some useful information about the ways of writing news stories. While reading the text define these ways and then together with your groupmates discuss both advantages and disadvantages of all the ways how to write news items described in this particular text. Think which way of presenting information you personally choose.