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Skills
Changing the Order
Use Copy
and Paste for this exercise which shows how easily items can be
rearranged without retyping. Copy the following list to a new word processing
file in the order it appears here, then rearrange in correct number order.
When
writing a newspaper article:
9. Leave your least important facts at the end.
4. Write about WHO is involved.
1. Write a headline of not more than six words.
8. Write about HOW it happened.
5. Write about WHY it happened.
2. Write a first paragraph which expands upon the headline.
7. Write about WHERE it happened.
6. Write about WHEN it happened.
3. Write about WHAT happened.
This is a really useful skill when used to rearrange your
own work. You can write things in draft form then rearrange and edit them
later.
In the example
below, imagine you are a journalist. You have written a news item, then
more news comes in. Instead of starting a completely new item you can
adapt the original to bring it up to date.
Editing a Newspaper Story
Set margins
to a narrow column width.
Type out story A, update it using information from B, to make your own
story C. This exercise shows how easy drafting is on a word processor.
Story
A
HUNDREDS KILLED IN CHINA QUAKE
It was reported from China today that hundreds of people have been killed
in Yunnan Province.
The Prime Minister, Mr Li Peng, has urged Chinese government departments
to do all they can to help local officials. He has also asked the United
Nations to give aid to the stricken province.
Copy this
story before going on to B.
Information
B
(You need not copy or type out the whole of this. Use the information
in any way to update story A, rewriting as necessary.)
*
1,200 lives now believed lost.
* The earthquake registered 7.6 on the Richter scale.
* Thousands of houses have been demolished in Kunming.
* Roads in Yunnan are now impassable.
* The British Government has offered tents, medical supplies, and technical
assistance.
* Mr Major has sent a personal message of sympathy to Mr Peng.
Your revised
story C should now have all the up to date and correct information and
should make sense!
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