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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 on time be knowledgeable in style

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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 Delgado July 16, 2012 GJC Audio-Visual Room

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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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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, instead of judgement enrolment, instead of enrollment

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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., govt, and other abbreviations. The abbreviations Jr. and Sr. are allowed in names. Remember: Engr. Emmanuel Delgado; Engineer Delgado 12 Dimagiba St.; Dimagiba Street

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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 in capital

letters. Example: GJC

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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 (UP)

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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-Verb Agreement Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement (agreement in gender and number) Articles (a, an, the)

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he said and not said he; Aquino said and not said Aquino Remember: three-day training and not three-days training. Trained for three days and not trained for three-day.

Remember:

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is used at the end of declarative and imperative sentences. It is used in abbreviations such as p.m., a.m., Jr., Sr., Pres., Sen., Rep., Gov., Gen., Capt., Dr., Fr., Atty., 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 Burayag, 17, sophomore BSIT student

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Do not use commas: to separate the abbreviation Jr., Sr., or III from the name. Ex: Emmanuel Delgado 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. Arturo Guina, President; Atty. Ferdinand Dumlao, Vice President; Dr. Narciso V. Matienzo, Secretary; and Dr. Poyen Pini, Treasurer.

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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. Lets 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

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Apostrophes

are used in the possessive form of the noun. Ex. the teachers table the teachers meeting In contractions of words Ex. Im (am) youre (you are) (Avoid using contractions except when quoting sources)

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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:
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Ws and 1 H Quotations Details One paragraph, one sentence