Senin, 30 April 2012

News Item

News Item Text - Explanations and Examples


.News items are one type of "text" that can lead us into a reliable journalist. By studying this text, we at least have been training to be able to write like a professional news writers. Therefore, do not be lazy if the teacher told my friend to do the task of creating a text message in English, okay? Well maybe one day my friend can be a high profile journalist :)
However, if my friend has not fully understand the text of this news item, it goes buddy grieve; hopefully by reading this article my friend could be smarter than the father / teacher friend in writing a news item text :)

    
Definition News Item

    
Generic Structure of News Item

    
What Makes a News Item

    
Example News Item

Definition News Item
News item is a text about the which informs readers events of the day. Considered The events are newsworthy or important. (News item is a text that gives information about the incident / event daily. Daily event is considered to be news worthy or [could say] important)
That is, if there is a significant event that should be known by many people, then it deserves to be a news event. Well, it was called a text message with the news item. However, if there is an inappropriate event is known by many people, the event certainly did not deserve to be news.
Generic Structure of News Item
There are three common arrangement in writing a news item, here is a generic structure of the News item:

    
Main Events: The main event which deserves to be news.
    
Elaboration: A description of the background of the event; the people involved in the incident; where events occurred, and others ..
    
Resource of Information [Source]: The source of news; comments of the witnesses; opinions of experts, and others.
For the first point, the main event should really newsworthy. Do not let there be a scene as an important ga news entry, will be the readers / viewers do not like the news story. For example: Mr. momod Go to Market to Buy Rice .. whoa who tuh pack momod .. :)
What Makes a News Item
There are so many common traits news item text; most prominent feature of the language is concise and straightforward. A few more of them:

    
Frequent use of action verbs
    
Dominant use of saying verbs
    
Many use the adverb of time, adverb of place, adverb of manner.
Note:

    
Action verbs are verbs that show the activity. (Read more clearly: Dynamic Verbs)
    
Saying verbs such as "reported, said, quoted, saying, preach, quoting".
    
Read adverb: adverb type

Example News ItemPamekasan student wins math contest in Romania
Alyssa Diva Mustika, a student from Pamekasan Junior High School, East Java, won the gold medal at the International Mathematics Contest held in Romania Between March 22 to 29, Antara news agency reported.
news itemSpeaking to Journalists, Diva said she was glad That she had been Able to win the competition, the which she said had been very tight. "Thank God I won. I will study harder, "she said.
Indonesia sent 10 students to the competition in Romania. Diva is not the first Pamekasan student to win an international science competition. Oktavian Latif, a student from SMA Negeri 1 Pamekasan won gold at the International Physics Olympiad in 2006. Another student, Shohibul Maromi, won the same award in 2010.
"I thank Diva for giving a good name to Indonesia and Pamekasan on the international stage," Pamekasan Regent Kholilurrahman said as quoted by Antara.
Example News Item analysis above:
First paragraph: Main EventsSecond & Third paragraph: Elaboration
Fourth paragraph: Sources.

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