FREE LET REVIEW

MAJORSHIP
Area: ENGLISH
Focus: Campus Journalism
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LET Competencies:
Apply the principles and strategies in writing the va...

usually written on top of the page. This is also found in the other pages.
2. Masthead – The editorial box containing the ...

• Student journalists should be familiar with the laws of libel and contempt of
court which exist in their country and sho...

TRAIT 1
Good writers see the world as their journalism laboratory, a storehouse of story ideas. If
they can get out of the...

nearness of kinship or interest.
• Prominence – Some people are more prominent than others by reasons of wealth,
social po...

succeeding paragraphs. The story breaks logically at every paragraph;
thus enabling the reporter to cut or lengthen it as ...

Some examples of these grammatical beginning leads are:
• Prepositional phrase lead – The phrase is introduced by a prepos...

The next step is to explain and elaborate in the body each of the features in the
order in which they are in the lead. In ...

A sidebar to a story explores an idea that, while interesting, fails to fit into the main story
because it remains tangent...

health, medical and other social welfare services; population education, rural electrification,
nutrition education, sport...

consistency, only one kind should be adopted by a newspaper. Common among these are
illustrated and briefly explained as f...

9. Write numbers in figures or spell them out depending upon your needs for your unit
counts.
10. Use any of the following...

A few pointers as regards punctuation of headlines should be observed. As a rule, headlines,
just like titles of editorial...

Reclaimed banks cause of
recurrent floods
21
17
36 Caslon 2
Dope upsurge 12½ 30 Cheltenham
in community, 11½ 1
school note...

argue nor criticize, but merely presents both sides of an issue and leaves the
judgment to the reader. It merely interpret...

Godofredo Rivera of the Graphic.
4. The gossip column – Caters to the inherent interest of human beings in human
beings. U...

Action Structure Story
• It may be of any length – from a short human interest story to a rather long magazine
article.
• ...

WRITING THE INTERVIEW
Interview Defined
An interview is an art of asking questions to obtain information. But technically ...

Qualities of a Good Sports Writer
Aside from a working knowledge of the medium he is going to use in writing his story, th...

• Swimming – tanker, naiads, aquabelle
PREPARING THE COPY AND COPYREADING
Preparing the Copy
In preparing the copy, the re...

N. Avoid “armpit” placement – a headline directly under a multicolumn head.
O. Take good care of the bottom of the page by...

to take in picture and caption at a glance. This explains why the caption should
be underneath the picture when there are ...

Monday, September 19, 2022