20165-25英美报刊选读Thefeaturestory.ppt

The feature story Forms of journal English Roughly, three types: news, features and opinion writings. 1) News? Usually, news is placed as the most important position in journalistic? report. It is one of the most extensive and? the most in common using report forms. Under this kind of form, the majority of news is covered by dispatches. Dispatches, it refers to a news reported ,which spread by a kind of tele-communication tool between the national correspondent and news agency. Its obvious character is the dateline which lies at the beginning of the news. I will give you an example to explain the manuscripts‘ background. News also has three types of forms based on Its contents. A. News in brief Briefs?? As common, News in Briefs have very simple headline, structure and news form. Almost, it only has several sentences, sometimes, only one. And its articles language is vivid ,just told you an event, not having any details or comments. B. Daily news?? China daily, a very common daily news newspaper was included all of the important international events of a day. In general, daily news dont have strict words limit, two hundred to three hundred words. It is one of the basic forms of news .On some of affairs report, maybe it have some background date, comment, and so on. So, the length of daily news will be longer. C. Follow-up stories follow-ups?? Follow-up stories is a kind of consecutive report to the recent continues affairs?or any person records in a certain period. So, it is applicable for a very important developing affairs. Commonly, the reporter should report the whole affairs from a new angle, in order to attract the readers attention. Follows-up has the following features: a. The journalist should report the latest condition of an affair which didnt exist in the original news;b. In the original news, there was no cause and motions of the affair.c. The following report should have the storys development, results and influence