Final Exam Review

1. Timeliness - How recent the event was.
2. Proximity - How close the event was.
3. Human Interest - How interesting the event is to the readers.
4. Prominence - How important/famous the event is.
5. Conflict - The problem that takes place in the story or event.
6. Interviews - The action of asking people questions to get quotes for a news story.
7. Research - The background knowledge attained about the topic that wasn't received by the interviewee.
8. Quotations - The exact words that an interviewee says in a news story.
9. Yes-No question - A non-depth question that is to be avoided in a journalistic interview.
10. Follow-Up Questions - Questions that an Interviewer asks in response to what the interviewee says, not necessarily scripted on a Question sheet.
11. Objective Writing - A news story based on strictly facts, no emotional persuasion or taking sides.
12. Transition Paragraph - A paragraph that is between two quotes to give background information and facts that explain the next quote.
13. Hard News Story - A story that is informational and strictly facts.
14. Soft News Story - A story that tries to entertain or advise the reader. ex, tips.
15. Inverted Pyramid - The structure of a news story that puts the most important information at the top and the least important information at the bottom.
16. Third Person POV - The perspective of the story, without any personal thoughts or first person pronouns.
17. 5W's and an H lead - The beginning of a news story that explains the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of the situation.
18. Editing - The changing of grammatical errors that you made in your first draft.
19. Attributions - The difference between research and plagiarism when gathering facts for a story.
20. Paraphrase - Rewriting someone else's words or ideas into your own structure.
21. Fragmentary Quotation - A part of a quote.
22. Direct Quotation - The exact words that a person says.
23. Partial Quotation - Giving a person reference in a story, but not using their exact words.
24. Uses of Quotations - Where a person is quoted in order to tell the story or get the point across.
25. When to Use Quotations - The appropriateness of using quotations.
26. Editorial - A feature story in a newspaper
27. editorial page - Where the editorials are located in a newspaper
28. columns - How the stories are organized in a newspaper
29. Editorial that criticizes - an opinions piece; gives a strong side to a situation
30. Editorial that explains - A story that just tells the story, nothing special or opinionated about it
31. Editorial that persuades - A story that tries to convince the reader to do or say something.
32. Letter to the Editor - A letter written with ideas and revision for past and future stories; the reader's opinion