NEWS ITEM

HUAAAAHHHH!!!! finally I'm back after took very longgggggg break. I'm so dizzy lately. And have no moods to post anything >,< *sorry*


Today, I'll post about MY PRESENTATION :-) 
It's NEWS ITEM!!!


by the way, do you know what is it?
and, maybe do you think, is it important to us to know about News? If yes, what are the benefits???
Let's check out this.....


I. DEFINITION

News item is a text which informs readers, listeners, and viewers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important.

II. THE GENERIC STRUCTURE

•Main event / Newsworthy events (tells the event in a summary form)

• Elaboration / Background events (elaborates what happened, explains what caused the incident

• Sources / Resource of Information (comments by participants, witnesses, authorities, and experts involved in the event)

III. THE LANGUAGE FEATURES

•       Information on the use of headlines

•       Use action verb

•       Use Saying Verb

•       Use Passive Sentences

•       Use Adverbs

•       Focused at man, animal, or certain object

•       Past Tense

•       Specific, detail information e.g. badly injured

IV. SIGNIFICANT GRAMMAR FEATURES

1. Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline

2. Generally using simple past tense

3. Use of material processes to retell the event

4. Using action verbs

5. Using saying verbs

6. Focus circumstances

7. Use of projecting verbal proces in sources stages

V. HOW TO WRITE A NEWSPAPER HEADLINE?


The one thing that can make or break a newspaper article is the headline. A good newspaper headline is concise, informative and, at times, entertaining. When you write a newspaper headline, your goal is to hook the reader into reading the article. Writing a headline for your article is easy, if you follow these steps.

1. Reread your article; identify the underlying theme.
2. Express the theme in an active voice using as few words as possible. Active verbs lend immediacy to a story. If a reader sees a headline written in a passive voice, he or she might glance right over it.
3. Keep your headline in present tense.
4. Keep it simple. A headline is a short, direct sentence without extra adjectives or adverbs.
5. Provide enough information in the headline to give the casual reader an impression of the entire story.

VI. THERE ARE SOME RULES THAT CAN HELP TO MAKE NEWSPAPER HEADLINES MORE COMPREHENSIBLE, THUS ARE:

1)      It is unusual to find complex forms, generally the simple present form is used

2)     The present progressive tense is used usually to describe something that is changing or developing, but the auxiliary verb is usually left out

3)      To refer to the future, headlines often use the infinitive

4)      Headlines are not always complete sentences

5)      The passive voice is used without the appropriate form of "be"

VII. TIPS AND WARNINGS!!!

•       Don't try to be overly witty.

•       Make sure you don't misrepresent the story by choosing a headline that doesn't cover the main subject of your piece.

•       Make sure the headline can stand on its own.

•       Always lead with the latest information, even if the story happened yesterday. This also lends a sense of immediacy to the story.

VIII. RANDOM FACTS ABOUT NEWS ITEM

1. Introductory paragraph usually answer the questions who, what, when, and where.
2. The newspaper report may end with an ending statement or comment on the events reported.
3. Sometimes, there is a photograph that shows who or what the newspaper report about.
4. The headline of the newspaper is usually short, simple and catchy.
5. The photograph in a newspaper is usually accompanied by a caption.
6. There is a series of short paragraphs that provides the details of the events.
7. A newspaper report may contain quotes that are comments made by people involved in the event.
8. The date tells us when the newspaper report appeared in the newspapers.

IX. EXAMPLES

TEXT

(First Paragraph) Moscow – A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear catastrophe, which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town.

(Second Paragraph) Yelena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people who witnessed the explosion of a nuclear submarine at the naval base of shkotovo – 22 near Vladivostock.The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl disaster, spread radioactive fall-out over the base and nearby town, but was covered up by officials of the Soviet Union. Residents were told the explosion in the reactor of the Victor-class submarine during a refit had been a ‘thermal’ and not a nuclear explosion. And those involved in the clean up operation to remove more than 600 tones of contaminated material were sworn to secrecy.

(Third Paragraph) A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy.

PS:


1. The first (1st) paragraph is Newsworthy Events
2. The second (2nd) paragraph is Background Events
3. The third (3rd) paragraph is Sources

   

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