Structuring News stories
Mode od address simply means how a media text communicates with or addresses the audience. It is expressed in three words:
Either Direct or Indirect
Either Formal or Informal
A third adjective : Another word to describe how test 'talks' to the audience. It might be aggressive, friendly, hostile, humorous, serious, sensational... or any other descriptive word
Purpose: What is the intention of the story and how does that impact the structure? Is it to give an overview of a story to tackle it in depth, to give an opinion, to provide a balanced point to introduce it?
Audience: Who is the story for? Particularly in terms of age, socioeconomic group interests and level of education? How does that impact the complexity, content and length of story
Context: What happened previously in the story and around the key people in the story? Is it the beginning of a news arc, the end, somewhere in the middle or an overview of.
Online news changed the gameplan by linking older stories to the new stories.
Use of speech- how is speech used in the article? is it key component of the story? Is it directly quoted or paraphrased?
Paragraph and sentence structure- How complex and long are the paragraphs and sentences? do they challenge the reader or are they easy to understand? How does the focus change between sentences? Does each paragraphs have a different focus?
Either Direct or Indirect
Either Formal or Informal
A third adjective : Another word to describe how test 'talks' to the audience. It might be aggressive, friendly, hostile, humorous, serious, sensational... or any other descriptive word
Purpose: What is the intention of the story and how does that impact the structure? Is it to give an overview of a story to tackle it in depth, to give an opinion, to provide a balanced point to introduce it?
Audience: Who is the story for? Particularly in terms of age, socioeconomic group interests and level of education? How does that impact the complexity, content and length of story
Context: What happened previously in the story and around the key people in the story? Is it the beginning of a news arc, the end, somewhere in the middle or an overview of.
Online news changed the gameplan by linking older stories to the new stories.
Use of speech- how is speech used in the article? is it key component of the story? Is it directly quoted or paraphrased?
Paragraph and sentence structure- How complex and long are the paragraphs and sentences? do they challenge the reader or are they easy to understand? How does the focus change between sentences? Does each paragraphs have a different focus?
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