Final Exam Review

1. Timeliness: How new the facts are.
2. Proximity: How close the the event is to you.
3. Human Interest: The drama people have in an emotional struggle.
4. Prominence: How newsworthy the story is.
5. Conflict: Two or more opposing forces.
6. Interviews: Interviewing people for the news story.
7. Research: You look up the topic or issue for a news story.
8. Quotations: What a person said in quotes.
9. Yes-no question: A question that has the answer of yes or no.
10. follow-up question: Questions to show that we are listening.
11. Objective writing: Unbiased and neutral writing.
12. Transition paragraph: Transitions into a quote.
13. Hard news story: News that is in the front of a paper.
14. Soft news story: A news story that is background information or human interests stories.
15. Inverted Pyramid: A structure of putting the most important information in the beginning of the news story.
16. Third-person point of view: A point of view that doesn't use I or we.
17. 5 Ws and H lead: A lead that explains the 5 W's and H.
18. editing: Making corrections for a news story.
19. attribution: Identifying a sources first and last name.
20. paraphrase: Saying information in your own words.
21. fragmentary quotation: A quote that is incomplete.
22. direct quotation: Direct quotes of what a person said.
23. partial quotation: A quote that is incomplete.
24. Uses of quotations: Transcribes what someone says.
25. When to use quotations:After a lead or transition.
26. When quotations are unnecessary or not desired:
27. Editorial: An editors opinion on a subject.
28. editorial page: An editorial page on a newspaper.
29. columns: An opinion of the column writer.
30. editorial that criticizes: An editorial that shows a persons opinion on something.
31. editorial that explains: Editorial that explains a topic.
32. editorial that persuades: Editorial that persuades the reader.
33. letter to the editor: Write a letter to the editor.