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Must Must Must Must Must
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have a nose for news be able to tell the truth not be afraid of people be able to finish articles ar ticles on time be knowledgeable in style
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It is a distinctive form or a way of doing something. In journalism, it refers to the fact that every time a certain term appears in a newspaper, they are spelled the same way. It also covers the use of abbreviations, titles, punctuations and how time is mentioned.
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Mr.. Antonio Delga Mr Delgado do July 16, 2012 2012 GJC Audio-Visual Audio-Visual Room
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The numbers 1 – 9 are written in words while the numbers 10 and above are written in figures. Example:
nine students 13 children
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EXCEPTIONS: dates, address: always in figures. proper nouns: may be written in figures/words beginning of sentence: always in words events: 1st – 9th is allowed
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Here in the Philippines, American English is used, not British English. Ex: color, not colour If a word has more than one accepted spelling, the shortest one is preferred. Ex: judgment, Ex: judgment, instead of judgement judgement of enrollment enrolment, instead of enrollment
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The first letter of the sentence is always capitalized. Proper nouns are capitalized, common nouns are not. Ex: singer Regine Velasquez
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Small letters are usually used for title or position. Ex: Dr. Noemi Villanueva, the president of GJC, delivered the opening remarks. Titles are capitalized when they appear right before a name:
Ex: President Noemi Villanueva, Ph.D.
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Spell out Dept., gov’ Dept., gov’tt, and other abbreviations. abbreviations Jr.. and Sr. Sr. are allowed The abbreviations Jr in names. Remember: Engr. Engr. Emmanuel Emman uel Delgado; Delgado ; Engineer Delgado 12 Dimagiba St.; Dimagiba Street
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A title or position of a person may be abbreviated if it appears before the name but not if simply used in the sentence: Ex: Sen. Recto filed another taxation bill yesterday. The senator filed another taxation bill yesterday.
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Acronyms are usually written usually written in capital letters. Example: GJC
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When an acronym appears for the first time in a news story, it is written after its meaning and it is enclosed in parentheses. Ex: University of the Philippines Philippines (UP)
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The first sentence of a paragraph is indented. In news stories, the rule is one paragraph, one sentence only.
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Check for errors in: Tenses of Verbs Subject-V Subject- Verb Agreement Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement (agreement in gender and number) Articles (a, an, the)
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Remember: he said and said and not said he; he; Aquino said and said and not said Aquino Remember: three-day training and not three-days training. training. Trained for three thre e days and not trained for three-day .
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It is used at the end of declarative and imperative sentences. It is used in abbreviations such as p.m., a.m., a.m., Jr., Jr., Sr., Sr., Pres., res. , Sen., Sen., Rep., Gov., Gov., Gen., Gen., Capt. Capt.,, Dr., Dr., Fr., Fr., Atty., Atty., Corp., Corp., and Inc. Acronyms of schools, organizations and offices do not need periods.
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Use commas: to separate the month and day from the year. to separate the street, barangay, town and province in an address to separate facts. Ex: Jolas Ex: Jolas Burayag, 17, sophomore BSIT student
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Do not use commas: sep arate the abbreviation abbr eviation Jr., Jr., Sr S r., or or III to separate from the name. Ex: Emmanuel Delgado Jr. Jr.
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Use colons when presenting a series of information and use semicolons to separate components of the series. Ex. Elected officers of the Board of Elders are: Dr. Dr. Arturo Guina, President; Preside nt; Atty. Atty. Ferdinand Dumlao, Vice President; Dr. Narciso V. Matienzo, Secretary; and Dr. Poyen Poyen Pini, Pini, Treasure reasurerr.
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Use hyphen: in most compound nouns Ex: editor-in-chief, officer-in-charge in fractions Ex: two-thirds, three-fourths in numerals Ex: twenty-two, fifty-nine
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Quotation marks are used in direct quotations. Indirect quotations do not need them.
Ex. “I forgot it,” he said. He said he forgot it. Periods and commas are written first before closing quotation marks. Ex. “Let’s “Let’s go to SM,” the boy said.
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Quotation marks are used to set off titles of events, shows, movies, books, etc. Ex. We watched “The Titanic.” Quotation marks are used to set off an alias or nickname. Ex. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Junior Juan Chua also known as “Boy Singkit “Boy Singkit” ”
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Apostrophes are used in the possessive form of the noun. Ex. the teacher’s table the teachers’ meeting In contractions of words Ex. I’m (am) you’re (you are) (Avoid using contractions except when
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Watch out for jumbled letters, words and paragraphs. Delete editorializing words/phrases. Ex. The very beautiful and intelligent principal… The cops were right in arresting…
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Check for redundancies (recurring words/phrases/paragraphs, synonymous or redundant terms). Ex. the concert the concert ended
at the back of the rear advance planning asked a question repeat again
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POINTERS:
5 W’s and 1 H Quotations Details
One paragraph, one sentence
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