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News Writing: The Body of a News Story MCQs
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News Writing: The Body of a News Story MCQs
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1. Writers can use words or short phrases to move a story from one topic to another. Five common types of transitional words are
2. The advantages of the hourglass story structure are that it
3. The focus style story includes a nut graph, which
4. One way reporters can explain large numbers—millions, billions and trillions—is by
5. A news reporter writing a narrative style story writes as a playwright or a novelist would by
6. The second paragraph of an inverted-pyramid story should
7. A good transitional sentence
8. Which of the following is NOT one of the errors beginning news writers commonly make in the second paragraphs of inverted-pyramid stories?
9. The primary advantage of the inverted-pyramid organization is that it
10. Descriptions help readers visualize people and places. The best descriptions use
11. If there is humor in a news story, it should be apparent
12. A focus story lead is often
13. If a news story reports on a controversy in which one person has made accusations against another, the reporter should
14. Stories that include many important subtopics often deal with these by
15. The three parts of an hourglass story are

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