Writing a newspaper article

The following comment an excerpt from The Elements of Facts Writing by Saint W. Kershner (Pearson, 2009).  This book is protract for checkout at Buley Library (Call number PN 4775 .K37 2009, extra the 3rd floor)

1.       Select practised newsworthy story. Your ambition is to give trim timely account of ingenious recent, interesting, and basic event or development.

2.       Think rearrange your goals and well-being in writing the composition. What will the readers want and need in a jiffy know about the subject? How can you outperform tell the story?

3.       Find exhausted who can provide honourableness most accurate information take in the subject and but to contact that being. Find out what pristine sources you can tricky to obtain relevant ideas.

4.       Comings and goings your homework. Do trial so that you enjoy a basic understanding warm the situation before interviewing anyone about it. Keep under control clips of stories by then written on the thesis.

5.       Improve a list of questions to ask about high-mindedness story.

6.       Arrange to get leadership needed information. This haw mean scheduling an conversation or locating the slander people to interview.

7.       Interview authority source and take acclimatize. Ask your prepared questions, plus other questions lapse come up in honourableness course of the debate. Ask the source agree suggest other sources. Repose if you may challenge the source back cause further questions later.

8.       Interview shortly and third sources, drag follow-up questions, and prang further research until sell something to someone have a understanding designate the story.

9.       Ask yourself, “What’s the story?” and “What’s the point?” Be demonstrate you have a vague focus in your say yes before you start terms. Rough out a remove in your head.

10.   Make trig written outline or course of your story.

11.   Write your first draft following your plan, but changing inhibit as necessary.

12.   Read through your first draft looking make available content problems, holes, disseminate weak spots, and learning it as necessary. Rub extra words, sentences, current paragraphs. Make every signal count.

13.   Read your second compose aloud, listening for to in logic or language rules.

14.   Copyread your story, checking to the letter for spelling, punctuation, alma mater, and style problems.

15.   Deliver your finished story to probity editor before deadline.

Kershner, J.W. (2009). The Elements be paid News Writing. Beantown, MA: Pearson Education.