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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. Stories that include many important subtopics often deal with these by
2. The advantages of the hourglass story structure are that it
3. If there is humor in a news story, it should be apparent
4. A focus story lead is often
5. If a news story reports on a controversy in which one person has made accusations against another, the reporter should
6. A news reporter writing a narrative style story writes as a playwright or a novelist would by
7. A good transitional sentence
8. Writers can use words or short phrases to move a story from one topic to another. Five common types of transitional words are
9. One way reporters can explain large numbers—millions, billions and trillions—is by
10. A focus story lead is often
11. The advantages of the hourglass story structure are that it
12. The primary advantage of the inverted-pyramid organization is that it
13. A news reporter writing a narrative style story writes as a playwright or a novelist would by
14. The primary advantage of the inverted-pyramid organization is that it
15. Stories that include many important subtopics often deal with these by

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