Final Exam Review

1. Timeliness: The facts that are the newest.

2. Proximity: A story that is written about an event that occurred near the reader.

3. Human Interest: A story that is written about the happenings of other people

4. Prominence: A story about an individual, organization, or a place that is worth sharing to the public.

5. Conflict: Two opposing sides clashing either physically, verbally, or emotionally.

6. Interviews: When a news reporter has a conversation with someone who relates to the story.

7. Research: Searching for background information to better understand a topic

8. Quotations: Phrases that a person being interviewed says for supporting evidence

9. Yes-no question: A question that doesn't give the interviewer a specific answer, just yes or no.

10. follow-up question: A question that requires the person being interviewed to deeply explain their answer.

11. Objective writing: Objective writing is fact based, does not include the writer's opinion.

12. Transition paragraph: Paragraphs that help keep the story flowing, connect thie wo

13. Hard news story: A story reported immediately

14. Soft news story: A story about human interest

15. Inverted Pyramid: The writing structure of a hard news story.

16. Third-person point of view: A writing perspective not using personal pronouns

17. 5 Ws and H lead: The first paragraph that introduces the story including Who, What, Where, When, Why and the only H - How.

18. editing: correcting a rough draft to a final draft

19. attribution: Giving credit to a source

20. paraphrase: Summarizing the main idea of a sentence, or paragraph in your own words

21. fragmentary quotation: An uncompleted quote

22. direct quotation: The exact words of an interviewee in the story

23. partial quotation: uncomplete quote

24. Uses of quotations: when the main subject said something in the story.

25. When to use quotations: When adding an interviewee's words into the story

26. When quotations are unnecessary or not desired: Able to use as a fact (indirect quote)

27. Editorial: An opinion writing

28. editorial page: A page where people state their opinions

29. columns: The form that a news story is written in.

30. editorial that criticizes: An article that criticizes a product, person, or place. 

31. editorial that explains: An article that explains something

32. editorial that persuades: An article that persuades the reader to agree with the opinion of the story
33. letter to the editor: A letter to an editor or publication