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The Writing Traits of A News Report

When writing a News Report for this assignment, be certain your writing has these traits.

Ideas

  • The response is related to the picture and the headline. The facts and details must be imagined based on connections you can make to the picture and headline. The details you make up should be reasonable, but do not have to be accurate or true.
  • Be aware of the differences between a reporter and a promoter. Write a news report, not an advertisement for what is happening in the photograph.
  • Include imagined statements from people pictured in the provided image. Imagine you had interviewed them immediately after the photograph was taken about the event described in the headline.

Organization

  • The paragraphs are short (just one or two sentences long).
  • The first paragraph is called the “lead” and describes what the news report is about by answering the questions: when, who, what and where.
  • The body paragraphs provide further details about who, what, where, how and why.

Voice

  • News reports are written in a formal, serious voice.
  • News reports are written in the past tense.
  • News reports are written in the third person.

Word Choice:

  • News reporters try to use clear descriptive language. The goal is to be accurate and avoid confusion. 

Sentence Fluency:

  • In order to ensure clarity, news reports usually have short, one or two sentence long paragraphs. Each paragraph provides additional details about the event.

Conventions:

  • Check your work for errors to ensure that it can be easily read. 
  • It does not have to be perfect. Use words that you can confidently spell correctly and straightforward sentence structures that are easily read. 
  • Use quotation marks correctly to identify the quotes you’ve invented.

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Here are a couple of lessons that might help you.

Task: Write a news report based on the headline and picture below. 

  • You will have to make up the facts and information, to answer some or all of the following questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
  • You must relate your newspaper report to both the headline and the picture.

Purpose and Audience: to report on an event for the readers of a newspaper

Task: Write a news report based on the headline and picture below. 

  • You will have to make up the facts and information, to answer some or all of the following questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
  • You must relate your newspaper report to both the headline and the picture.

Purpose and Audience: to report on an event for the readers of a newspaper

Task: Write a news report based on the headline and picture below. 

  • You will have to make up the facts and information, to answer some or all of the following questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
  • You must relate your newspaper report to both the headline and the picture.

Purpose and Audience: to report on an event for the readers of a newspaper

Task: Write a news report based on the headline and picture below. 

  • You will have to make up the facts and information, to answer some or all of the following questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
  • You must relate your newspaper report to both the headline and the picture.

Purpose and Audience: to report on an event for the readers of a newspaper

Task: Write a news report based on the headline and picture below. 

  • You will have to make up the facts and information, to answer some or all of the following questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
  • You must relate your newspaper report to both the headline and the picture.

Purpose and Audience: to report on an event for the readers of a newspaper

Task: Write a news report based on the headline and picture below. 

  • You will have to make up the facts and information, to answer some or all of the following questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
  • You must relate your newspaper report to both the headline and the picture.

Purpose and Audience: to report on an event for the readers of a newspaper

Task: Write a news report based on the headline and picture below. 

  • You will have to make up the facts and information, to answer some or all of the following questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
  • You must relate your newspaper report to both the headline and the picture.

Purpose and Audience: to report on an event for the readers of a newspaper

Task: Write a news report based on the headline and picture below. 

  • You will have to make up the facts and information, to answer some or all of the following questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
  • You must relate your newspaper report to both the headline and the picture.

Purpose and Audience: to report on an event for the readers of a newspaper

Task: Write a news report based on the headline and picture below. 

  • You will have to make up the facts and information, to answer some or all of the following questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
  • You must relate your newspaper report to both the headline and the picture.

Purpose and Audience: to report on an event for the readers of a newspaper

Task: Write a news report based on the headline and picture below. 

  • You will have to make up the facts and information, to answer some or all of the following questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
  • You must relate your newspaper report to both the headline and the picture.

Purpose and Audience: to report on an event for the readers of a newspaper