Final Review

1. Timeliness: having to do with something that happened recently, if it is old, then its not "news"

2. Proximity: happened near where the story is being printed, if you are printing in Austin, you wouldn't want to print about a new school in Dallas

3. Human Interest: stories that catch the interest of many people, usually "heart-warming"

4. Prominence: if something is important and happened recently

5. Conflict: something that other people disagree on

6. Interviews: asking someone a series of questions to get a better understanding of what happened for your story

7. Research: doing background on whatever topic you are writing about so that you can have a better interview and a better story

8. Quotations: something that someone else said that you include in your story to make it more in-depth

9. Yes-no question: a question that can be answered with a yes or no, these are not questions you should ask, because you couldn't use them as quotes.

10. follow-up question: a question that you ask after an initial question in hopes of getting a more descriptive answer

11. Objective writing: writing neutrally, and you do not show your opinion at all, it is purely facts

12. Transition paragraph: a paragraph that goes after a quote to describe the quote that comes afterwards; it also usually introduces a new topic

13. Hard news story: stories composed entirely of facts

14. Soft news story

15. Inverted Pyramid: the order in which your story should go, it goes from most important to least important

16. Third-person point of view: not using I, me, we, us.

17. 5 Ws and H lead: a lede where you describe everything that your story is about, it includes who, what, when, where, why, and how.

18. editing: you go through and make changes to incorrect parts of your story.

19. attribution:expelling the cause and behavior and their effects

20. paraphrase: you take what someone said and put it in your own words without copying anything that they said

21. fragmentary quotation: a quote that is not a complete sentence

22. direct quotation: you quote exactly what a person said, you don't paraphrase it

23. partial quotation: a quote that is not introduced into the story with a transitional paragraph

24. Uses of quotations: to go into more depth and have a first hand experience of what occurred to include in your story, also if you have an expert it can be a reliable way to show more information

25. When to use quotations: when there is a lack of information, or if the text is about a person, you would need to interview that person

26. When quotations are unnecessary or not desired: embedded into text

27. Editorial: an opinion piece about a well known issue

28. editorial page: a page of editorials instead of hard news stories

29. columns: an editorial that reoccurs in a newspaper

30. editorial that criticizes: an editorial that constructively criticizes a controversial issue

31. editorial that explains: an editorial that explains why a newspaper covered a controversial issue

32. editorial that persuades: an editorial that tries to sway a persons opinion  over a controversial issue
33. letter to the editor: a letter that a reader sends to address issues they have with the newspaper