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what is readinglike what is literature the question what is reading seems at first to have an obvious answer when you read you look at a bunch of
what is literaturewhat is literature its a question that few people would have asked 20 years ago literature was what you read in english class--in
brainstorming and prewritingtest administrators will tell you how much time you will have to write the essaymost state assessments are 90 minutes
persuasive writingwhat is the persuasive writing assessmentpersuasive writing for state assessment tests focuses on two aspects of thinking and
censorshipthe first amendment states congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech or of the press with rare exceptions the first
what is the pointlets say youre a high school student youve decided that you want to be an engineer maybe a computer programmer or you want to be a
legal issues in journalism libel what is libellibel is a broad term used to describe damage to reputation known legally as defamation that is caused
what is dash parenthesis hyphen colon and semicolondash a dash represented as a long dash or as two short dashes -- occurs mostly in informal writing
editorials and biasfrom the editorials you can also get a sense of the publications overall bias after all no publication is completely free from
writing editorialswhats an editorialmost newspapers and news magazines as well as online news services and broadcast news programs contain editorials
what are the commasthe comma is one of the most widely used--and misused--punctuation marksrules for using commas1 use a comma to separate items in
quotation marks are used to set off direct speech from the rest of the words in a sentence rules for using quotation marks1 quotation marks
how to show that a sentence is finishedend marks are the punctuation you use to indicate that the sentence is finished the end marks are the period
what are predication errorsa predication error is when oopsi just made onea predication error occurs when the subject of the sentence does not match
create good relationships by planning ahead as a journalist or researcher you need not only to know how to get and write up an interview but also how
what is parallel constructionwriters must use consistency of form when constructing sentences this is especially important when the sentence
writing featuresa feature isgenerally speaking a feature is anything other than an actual report of a hard news event features can still refer to
writing news storieswhat is newsthis might seem like a silly question at first but if you want to be a news reporter you first have to be able to
whats a run-on sentencea run-on sentence occurs when two or more sentences are joined together without appropriate conjunctions or punctuation
writing the leadthe summary leadthe lead or the introduction is the key to writing an effective news report the way you write a lead depends on the
whats a sentence fragmenta sentence fragment is an incomplete sentencethe most frequent type of sentence fragment error occurs when a writer attempts
what is a compound-complex sentencea compound-complex sentence is made up of two or more independent clauses and at least one subordinate
journalistic style and techniques how journalism is like other writingmany of the writing issues in journalism are similar to those youll find in
what is a subordinate or dependent clausea dependent or subordinate clause is a group of words that has a subject and verb but cannot stand alone as
introduction to journalismjournalism and storytellingreporters often like to say that theyre storytellers that might sound like theyre making things