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U N I T 4
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE STRUCTURE
1. Read and remember structural and linguistic features of a newspaper article.
A Newspaper article usually consists of the following structural elements:
1)
article
title
:
the purpose is to grab the reader’s attention and brief the contents of the article;
2)
dateline:
it shows when and where the story was written;
3)
byline:
a line at the beginning of an article in a newspaper that gives the writer’s name;
4)
article lead (opening paragraph):
the lead of an article answers the “5 W’s” and
“1 H” questions:
Who? What? When? Where? Why?
How?
;
5)
body paragraphs:
body paragraphs explain the lead in greater detail and provide
information from primary resources such as quotes, statistics, and document citation.
The text of any article displays a multitude of linguistic features that are used by the
writer for a number of reasons. You have to remember that, probably, you will hardly find all
the features in any one article but you have to be able to find all those that are there.
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