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Technology And Language Resources For Journalism And Communication

Week 3

NEXT WEEK
H, DH and QUIZ
HOMEWORK
Goal: to become familiar with the concept of guidelines and to learn journalistic writing techniques in English.
What to do?
Read Reuters Guidelines for Basic Writing. The text is long so please concentrate on practical points only such as the inverted pyramid method, the ten keywords approach, how long before you reach a crucial word, count the words in your first sentence.
Write one paragraph to summarize.
Where?
http://handbook.reuters.com/index.php/Reporting_and_Writing_Basics

Click on TEXT
Then click on Reporting and Writing Basics

DEEP HOMEWORK
Answer TOEIC questions 101 to 140; starting on page 17

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