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| Article list News writing and columns are vulnerable to plagiarism if you are not careful (March 7, 2007) Plagiarism can sneak up on you if you drop your guard when sourcing from published material. Boston Globe sports reporter Ron Borges learned the hard way. How to write follow-up articles for a news outlet - 3-step guide (February 6, 2007) One of the best ways to make your mark as a journalist, apart from knowing how to write, is to produce timely articles. How to write articles for your local paper - 4 things you must know (February 4, 2007) If you want to write for a newspaper as a freelancer, there are some rules you should know about. Can a news agency bite the hand that feeds it? (January 31, 2007) Global news wire AFP has signed a deal to put their content on the Asian Football Confederation website. Does this mean AFP must now go easy on controversial football stories? The Inverted Pyramid is a hollow system for writing articles (January 30, 2007) The Inverted Pyramid system for news writing that is taught in colleges and universities is a weak model to use as a reference. It is also alien to what is being used in the majority of newsrooms around the world. Horror writing - exaggeration can be disastrous (January 24, 2007) Is "horror" your favourite sports team losing heavily in an important game or is "horror" seeing your house and possessions being washed away by killer floods? Subordinate clauses - treat them as second-class citizens in your articles (January 18, 2007) Using a subordinate clause to start your article is a good way of losing your readers quickly. Unfortunately, many journalism rookies, when they learn to write, are rarely taught this basic rule. Writing error - the general consensus being that an opening gambit is superfluously redundant (January 13, 2007) Writers should cringe when they read or listen to one of their own coming up with phrases such as "opening gambit". This is an example of redundant, or superfluous words that are too common an occurrence in modern writing. Vijay Singh or Lee Chong Wei? - they're all the same to sports journalists (January 9, 2007) You have a choice between an all-expense paid trip to Fiji on business class to interview golfer Vijay Singh only days after he set a US PGA Tour record OR cover the early rounds of the Malaysian Open badminton tournament. What would any normal person do? Harlem Knight - you wanna be a hero? (January 5, 2007) What is it they say about journalists launching heroes into orbit and then shooting them down? Well, here's a prime candidate. Hail Wesley Autrey, the man who saved a 19-year-old from the train tracks of the 137th Street/City College station in New York. |