Final Exam Review

1.  Timelines
A-  How recent a written story is.
2.  Proximity
A-  How close an event in a story happened to where it was published.
3.  Human Interest
A-  The appeal for a human to read the story.
4.  Prominence
A-  How important the story is.
5.  Conflict
A-  A story about a problem between two forces.
6.  Interviews
A-  A way for a journalist to gather information in order to write a story based off facts.
7.  Research
A-  Search done for facts about the topic of the story, so that the journalist can base it off of more than interviews.
8.  Quotations
A-  Something used in a story to repeat exactly how a person said something.
9.  Yes-no question
A-  A question that should not be asked during a review--it does not end up giving much information to the writer to work with.
10.  Follow-up question
A-  A question made to pursue a topic that the person being interviewed brings up.
11.  Objective writing
A-  Writing not influenced by personal feelings, opinions, or prejudice (bias).
12.  Transition paragraph
A-  A paragraph made to move from one topic in a story to another.
13.  Hard news story
A-  A news story based entirely off fact.
14.  Soft news story
A-  A news story with fact (because it is a news story), but also includes emotions and opinions of the people interviewed.
15.  Inverted pyramid
A-  A strategy to organize a story by level of importance.
16.  Third-person POV
A-  Writing without the use of personal pronouns.
17.  5 Ws and H lead
A-  A lede for a story made to explain who, what, when, where, why, and how.
18.  Editing
A-  Going back over something to make sure every thing is factually and grammatically correct.
19.  Attribution
A-  Something that adds to the story, makes it better.
20.  Paraphrase
A-  Summing up a quote or idea into one sentence or small paragraph (no quotations).
21.  Fragmentary quotation
A-  A quoted incomplete sentence.
22.  Direct quotation
A-  Putting down exactly what a person said inside of quotations.
23.  Partial quotation
A-  Using part of what a person said in quotations (such as in the middle of a sentence).
24.  Uses of quotations
A-  They're used to repeat the exact words of someone.  They're also put around unusual words of phrases that have been used be someone.
25.  When to use quotations
A-  Use quotations when you want to back something up in a story with words from an interview.
26.  When quotations are unnecessary or not desired
A-  Quotations should not  be used in two consecutive paragraphs.  Quotes should not be embedded into paragraphs.
27.  Editorial
A-  A piece written by a chosen person to convey the ideas or opinions of the newspaper staff.
28.  Editorial page
A-  A page of the above definition.
29.  Columns
A-  A recurring author giving their opinion.
30.  Editorial that criticizes
A-  The opinion of the staff that goes against or critiques something.
31. Editorial that explains
A-  The staff coming together to try and help readers understand something (such as a why, or a how).
32.  Editorial that persuades
A-  The staff coming together to try and convince the readers of something.
33.  Letter to the editor
A-  A letter sent to a publication about issues or concerns from its readers.