Final exam review

1. Timeliness- recently happened  

2. Proximity- how close the story is to us

3. Human Interest- appeals to us 

4. Prominence- importance of someone or something

5. Conflict- two sides who are fighting

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6. Interviews- talking with others to get information

7. Research- looking for information for the interview

8. Quotations- what you get from a source (indirect and/or direct) 

9. Yes-no question- questions that can be answered with yes or a no

10. follow-up question- question that is asked after to get more out from the previous question. 

11. Objective writing- no editorial in it

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12. Transition paragraph- links the quotes together

13. Hard news story- timely and breaking news

14. Soft news story- happened long ago or is going to happen 

15. Inverted Pyramid- writing structure for a hard news story

16. Third-person point of view- she, they

17. 5 Ws and 1 H lead- who, what, when, where, why, and how

18. editing- making adjustments to a story

19. attribution- give credit to person who gave you information

20. paraphrase- rewriting something someone said and then giving them credit for it.

21. fragmentary quotation- when more words are added before quote
22. direct quotation- word for word quote

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23. partial quotation- gets no comma or colon

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24. Uses of quotations - feelings and emotions, should not be facts

25. When to use quotations-  someone else's words

26. When quotations are unnecessary or not desired- unnecessary when 

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27. Editorial- is the opinion  of the paper 

28. editorial page- where all the opinion appear 

29. columns- one persons perspective on a perticular object

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30. editorial that criticizes - judgement of the editorial stance 

31. editorial that explains- explanation of the story or news line

32. editorial that persuades- persusion of the writter of teller

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33. letter to the editor- come from the general public