HOW TO WRITE AN ARTICLE JOURNAL
The newspaper article is primarily a text that provides information about a story that tells a fact, trying to expose the largest number of elements necessary to understand it can be shorter or longer, depending on the importance of the story described, but should enable the reader clearly understand the subject.
Step 1. Location
A newspaper article is a complex structure, composed of several parts: the first to write a article must therefore decide which of these parts place.
In general the papers are divided as follows: _
Domestic politics: dealing with national political events: the clash between the parties, battles to pass laws, labor disputes, the appointment of heads of higher institutions of the State etc. .
_ Foreign policy: dealing with political events in other countries, and is generally prepared from the corresponding (resident in the foreign country) or by post (when traveling in a foreign country when an important event to follow) or by the news that is provided by news agencies.
_ Chronicle (Latin chronica, "Annals") is the record of the events recorded in their succession in time. In journalistic terms, refers to the statement of the facts of daily life of local, national or international issues of major importance. It is divided into white chronicle, that these events are important to citizens in economic, cultural, social etc. crime, which concerns crimes, crimes and acts of violence in general; judicial reporting that to the development of processes and investigations; gossip, which reports on celebrity news, gossip , which deals with news of sentimental and touching; local news, which will display various information about city life, including information in the public interest.
_ Culture: contains news about the cultural world, the articles of literary criticism, interviews with novelists, philosophers, artists, academics, debates on issues of scientific, historical, sociological, etc.. But short extracts of books, short stories or poems. In the past, cultural issues were addressed in third page, so that part of the newspaper who is dealing with is called "Third page" or even "literary articles," which was the editorial page of the cultural and was composed with an elegant character, coined by the Dutch printer Elzevier.
_ Sciences : describes the technological innovations and scientific discoveries.
_ Sport: lists the various sports events, given the importance of sport in modern society, the sports pages have an ever more extensive.
_ Shows: reports innovations in the world of entertainment, cinema, theater, music on television. It is in these pages that find the list of television programs, the reviews, that the opinions on drama, film, theater and music, which serve to guide the choices of readers, but also influence their preferences.
_ Economics and Finance: report the facts of economic and financial world, the most significant events that relate to banks and major corporations, the trend in production, the share prices and exchange rates of foreign principalimonete.
Step 2. Newsgathering
sources from which journalists take the information institutions, law enforcement, businesses. Many news items are gathered by news agencies, but to deepen the argument, the journalist should carry out research, surveys and investigations. In the case of a school test, the information must be inferred from the text in history, from documents, from the research (on encyclopedia, Internet), from interviews and books (literature, history, philosophy, economics, geography, sociology, etc...)
Step 3. Preparing for the lineup
After gathering information, preparing an outline of issues to be addressed in order to clarify the issue, putting them in the order you want to present the reader with a logical sequence that links the various points between them. You should prepare two different types of ladder: one on the structure of the article, a relative the real deal. The order of the structure of the article should adhere to the classical scheme,
divided into three parts:
1. the beginning (also called "attack" or leads, namely the introduction),
2. Development
3. the conclusion, or "closing".
to ) connection or introduction of the topic : statement of facts that can sum up the meaning and to highlight the relevance of the topic. The introduction should lead the reader to have an interest in the topic and then continue reading the article. It is therefore necessary that the first few sentences are clear, attractive and able to present the argument succinctly.
addition to the news, the introduction might include the reasons for tackling the subject.
b) Development of the theme : it is the real discussion of the topic, which puts the player in a position to know all the events relating to it
c) Conclusions: The final summary may contain personal views of those who write the proposals, a forecast of possible developments or putting in light of the various implications of the fact.
Conduct
In the text that is built to develop the argument, there should be a clear distinction between the presentation of the facts and the opinions and different points of view on the subject. It is very important, in fact, that the opinions of those who wrote the article to be as separate as possible from the facts in order to allow the reader to obtain a complete picture of the event. On the other hand, all the papers express a policy which is that the director or head of property and this affects the display of certain facts. Moreover, it is not always easy to segregate their views by writing the material: often it takes only an adjective, underlining, highlighting a greater or lesser elements in order to reflect their views on the subject.
There is no impartial and objective narration: But if we take into account the different aspects of a problem and the different points of view, we can provide the most complete presentation of the subject, so that the reader can form their own personal opinion . It should also be aware that a subjective view of the facts can be very interesting, as greater involvement and participation, provided it is based on objective evidence and documented.
1. Presentation of the facts
Articles should report the facts in a clear and comprehensive. According to the classical model, derived from the Anglo-Saxon journalism, the article should contain, from the beginning, responses to the five W's initials on the following words
English, corresponding to particular questions:
- Who? (Who?): Who are the characters involved?
- What? (What?): What happened?
- Where? (Where?), Where there was the fact?
- When? (When?): When there is the fact?
Why? (Why?): What are the causes that have caused or contributed to the fact?
You can observe this instruction in a flexible way, bearing in mind that the answer to these questions can be placed precisely on the subject and the reader immediately clarify its entirety essential. The construction of the article must be based on a clear logical sequence of process steps and not just a list of information (or knowledge) put in a row one after another. It is important, therefore, build a schedule that respects the chronological order or causal (cause-effect
). To build the article should identify key phrases, ie those that define the explanation / presentation of the topic and that are deduced from the material on which there is documented. You can proceed in various ways:
- highlighting key words and phrases from the documentary material;
- building a list of key points, to be treated titoletti as many paragraphs of text to be prepared;
- making a brief summary of the documentary material and following
this track to develop the topic.
After drafting of the text is making the correction to control:
- spelling errors;
- verb tenses: you can choose the historical present, presenting the past events as taking place in the present or the past tense, past tense , imperfect, may be used also for the future, in reference to events that have taken place, but from the time we can ideally be considered.
- complete;
- the logical sequence between the various parts (temporal, causal, consecutive, adversative
etc...)
2. Presentation of the views
To understand more thoroughly the implications of a fact which should highlight the different views that you may have about it. The views may be included within the course or at the end: just that it is always clear that this is a comment, it is necessary to clarify the source, that the person who formulates it. A newspaper text may state the views of the writer is the case of prestigious journalists whose articles are read just to see what the author thinks about that particular topic.
The ability to see the events from different points of view and express their thoughts and comments demonstrates a critical and analytical skills. If we construct an article about a historical event, you must report back to the source, namely the document from which we took the different points of view which is critical and may indicate the quotations, which are always placed in quotation marks.
Step 5. The choice of title
title is given the task to immediately understand the subject matter and encourage the reading of the article: it is therefore an important element, which pay much attention. Because of its graphic evidence, the title immediately obvious and should therefore give a brief idea of \u200b\u200bwhat is contained in the text. It should also help the reader in the search for a specific news, so it must be clear and compelling at the same time, contain all the information necessary to illustrate the argument, but at the same time submit an original and attractive. It must be short,
denotation and connotation.
The title is usually preceded by 'eye and followed by Bolt ( TOC), which can complement the information content of the title (location, people involved, time frame etc.).. Under the title there is usually a summary, consisting of several lines, which has the task of clarifying the subject matter, showing at a glance the most important information contained in the article.
The choice of title is made generally to article concluded, when they are clear of all elements of the text, to be quite sure that the title matches what you have written.
To attract the reader's attention, the title should be emotionally involved.
is why in many cases the articles do not merely inform, but try to whet the interest with effect sentences that leverage on the mood of the reader. One can thus make a distinction between titles cold, purely informational, and hot titles, which arouse feelings and emotions.
