Journalistic Texts | News | ENGLISH 7 | QUARTER 3 | Week 4 | MATATAG Curriculum

Summary

This lesson delves into the essential elements of journalistic writing, covering topics such as diction, writing style, and techniques like quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing. It explains the importance of clear, concise, and accurate language in news writing, using the five W's and H to structure journalistic text. The video emphasizes the use of neutral tone, simplicity, precision, and brevity, ensuring that readers can easily understand the facts. The content also highlights how to use other people's words effectively, citing sources properly to avoid plagiarism.

Takeaways

• 📰 Journalistic texts deliver factual, timely, and relevant information about recent events using a clear and straightforward style.
• ❓ They focus on answering the 5Ws and 1H—who, what, when, where, why, and how—to ensure readers fully understand the story.
• ⏱️ Key features of journalistic texts include timeliness, accuracy, relevance, neutrality, and the use of the inverted pyramid structure.
• 🗣️ Diction in journalism involves choosing precise, clear, and appropriate words that match the intended tone and target audience.
• ✍️ Writing style in journalism prioritizes simplicity, precision, and brevity to ensure information is communicated efficiently.
• 🔍 Simplicity means using easy-to-understand words; precision means including exact details; brevity means removing unnecessary words.
• 💬 Quoting involves using someone’s exact words within quotation marks and properly identifying the source to maintain credibility.
• 🔄 Paraphrasing restates someone’s ideas in your own words while keeping the original meaning, and still requires proper citation.
• 📘 Summarizing condenses larger pieces of information into shorter forms while focusing only on the main points.
• 📊 Quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing each serve different purposes in journalism—direct accuracy, clarity in restating ideas, and brevity in conveying essential information.
• 🧭 Overall, good journalistic writing is factual, clear, organized, and ethical, helping readers easily understand important events.

Q & A

What is a journalistic text?

A journalistic text is a type of writing that delivers factual and timely information about recent events, providing essential details such as who, what, when, where, why, and how.

Why are the Five W’s and One H important in journalistic writing?

They ensure that the reader fully understands the key details of the story by identifying the people involved, the event, the time, the location, the reason, and the manner in which it happened.

What makes journalistic text unique compared to other forms of writing?

Journalistic text is written in a neutral tone, focuses on accuracy and timeliness, avoids personal opinions, and uses the inverted pyramid structure to prioritize essential information.

What is the inverted pyramid structure?

It is a writing structure where the most important information is presented first, followed by less essential details, allowing readers to grasp the key points quickly.

Why is diction important in journalistic articles?

Diction influences tone, clarity, accuracy, and the connection to the target audience. Choosing the right words helps make news clear, professional, and appropriate for readers.

What are the three key aspects of writing style in journalism?

The three key aspects are simplicity (using easy-to-understand words), precision (providing exact details), and brevity (keeping sentences concise and to the point).

What is quoting, and when should it be used?

Quoting is the exact repetition of someone’s words enclosed in quotation marks. It is used when the writer wants to present a speaker’s original statement accurately.

How does paraphrasing differ from quoting?

Paraphrasing involves restating someone’s ideas in your own words while keeping the meaning the same. Unlike quoting, it does not copy the original wording but still requires proper citation.

What is summarizing in journalistic writing?

Summarizing condenses a large amount of information into a shorter form, focusing only on the main points. It provides an overview without unnecessary details.

Why is it important to cite sources when paraphrasing or summarizing?

Citing sources maintains credibility, avoids plagiarism, and acknowledges the original author or speaker whose ideas are being used.

How do precision and brevity improve journalistic writing?

Precision ensures accuracy by providing exact details, while brevity removes unnecessary words, making the information clear, efficient, and impactful.