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More 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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