{"id":33546,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/the-formula-for-writing-a-straight-news-story-2"},"modified":"2017-08-16T06:19:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:19:50","slug":"the-formula-for-writing-a-straight-news-story-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/the-formula-for-writing-a-straight-news-story-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The formula for writing a straight news story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Writing a News Story<\/p>\n<p>Write a straight news story (about some kind of science preferably). The formula for writing a straight news story is a simple one to follow. Once you decide on the 5 <\/p>\n<p>W\u2019s and the H.<\/p>\n<p>Writing the Lead<\/p>\n<p>Write no more than two sentences or 35 words, with the first sentence no longer than 10 words.<br \/> Answer the five journalistic questions ( who, what, when, where, how ).<br \/> Use an active verb as the main verb; use passive voice only if necessary.<br \/> Start with the answer for \u201cwhat\u201d and then the answer for \u201cwho.\u201d<br \/> Place the when answer near the verb for past events.<br \/> Place the when answer at the end of the lead paragraph for future events.<br \/> Writing the Body<\/p>\n<p>You may answer the why \/ how questions in the body if there was not room in the lead.<br \/> Order the information from the most IMPORTANT to the least<br \/> ( inverted pyramid organization ).<br \/> Write paragraphs that focus only on one idea and areno longer than 60 words and\/or 1-3 sentences.<br \/> Writing the Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>Have the least IMPORTANT information at end to allow for cutting the length of story if necessary.<br \/> Reread for clarity and correctness; run Style and Grammar Check.<br \/> Submit each story in a separate Word document.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing a News Story Write a straight news story (about some kind of science preferably). The formula for writing a straight news story is a simple one to follow. Once you decide on the 5 W\u2019s and the H. Writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/the-formula-for-writing-a-straight-news-story-2\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}