Final Review

       

 FINAL REVIEW

     Here are the terms you need to know for the final exam. Please create a new blog and title it "Final Exam Review" - type in or copy and paste the terms below and in your own words, try to describe what the word(s) mean from a journalistic perspective. This should help you the most on the test.


MULTIPLE CHOICE:

1. Timeliness:
How recent the story is, like in the newspaper you want to hear about a recent story

2. Proximity:
Where the event in the story happened and how it can relate to you, how close it it to us

3. Human Interest:
The topic/subject of the story that people find interesting, make people want to read it

4. Prominence:
How important the subject of the story is, make sure it's relevant

5. Conflict:
A problem or issue, two sides of a story

WORD BANK:

6. Interviews:
When a reporter meets with a source to ask them questions about a subject

7. Research:
Looking at sources to find information about a subject, preparing for an interview

8. Quotations:
The exact words the interviewee said, what you get from a source, what did they say

9. Yes-no question:
A question that can only be answered with yes or no

10. Follow-up question:
When something is asked, the answer sparks another question, elaboration

PAIRING:

11. Objective writing:
Writing just the facts with no opinions

MULTIPLE  CHOICE:

12. Transition paragraph:
In between quotes, links sentences/quotations together

13. Hard news story:
Timely and breaking news

14. Soft news story:
Not really as timely, not as important/breaking

15. Inverted Pyramid:
The writing structure for a hard news story

16. Third-person point of view:
No using "I" and "me/my," no opinions, using "he," "she," "they"

17. 5 Ws and H lead:
Who, what, when, where, why, and how

18. Editing:

Prepare (written material) for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it

WORD BANK:

19. Attribution:
The source

20. Paraphrase:
When you take someone's words/ideas and write it in your own words, giving them credit

21. Fragmentary quotation:
Not real (see partial quotations)

22. Direct quotation:
A word for word, exact quote, changing nothing of what a source said

23. Partial quotation:
Only quoting a couple words, keyed within sentence

24. Uses of quotations: 
To convey feelings and emotions

25. When to use quotations:
When you need to know what someone said

26. When quotations are unnecessary or not desired:
If they're facts that you could write in a transition statement instead

WORD BANK OR TRUE/FALSE:
27. Editorial:
The opinion of a newspaper on a particular subject as a whole, always 3rd person

28. Editorial page:
Where all the opinions in a paper appear

29. Columns:
Written by one person, and it's their point of view on a particular topic

30. Editorial that criticizes: 
The writer criticizes an event and says why

31. Editorial that explains:
The writer explains the subject/topic, and maybe why they think that way

32. Editorial that persuades:
Writer trying to persuade reader to agree with them
33. Letter to the editor:
A reader would write a letter to the editor, the general public