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Must have a nose for news
Must be able to tell the truth
Must not be afraid of people
Must be able to finish articles on time
Must be knowledgeable in style
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It is a distinctive form or a way of doing
something.
In journalism, it refers to the fact thatevery time a certain term appears in a
newspaper, they are spelled the same
way.
It also covers the use of abbreviations,
titles, punctuations and how time is
mentioned.
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Mr. Antonio Delgado
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The numbers 1 9 are written in words
while the numbers 10 and above are
written in figures.Example:
nine students
13 children
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EXCEPTIONS:
dates, address: always in figures.
proper nouns: may be written infigures/words
beginning of sentence: always in words
events: 1st 9th is allowed
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Here in the Philippines, American English
is used, not British English.
Ex: color, not colour If a word has more than one accepted
spelling, the shortest one is preferred.
Ex:judgment, instead ofjudgementenrolment, instead ofenrollment
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The first letter of the sentence is always
capitalized.
Proper nouns are capitalized, commonnouns are not.
Ex: singer
Regine Velasquez
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Small letters are usually used for title or
position.
Ex: Dr. Noemi Villanueva, the president ofGJC, delivered the opening remarks.
Titles are capitalized when they appear
right before a name:
Ex: President Noemi Villanueva, Ph.D.
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Spell out Dept.,govt, and other
abbreviations.
The abbreviationsJr. and Sr. are allowedin names.
Remember:
Engr. Emmanuel Delgado;Engineer Delgado
12 Dimagiba St.; Dimagiba Street
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A title or position of a person may be
abbreviated if it appears before the name
but not if simply used in the sentence:Ex: Sen. Recto filed another taxation bill
yesterday.
The senator filed another taxation
bill yesterday.
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Acronyms are usuallywritten in capital
letters.
Example:
GJC
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When an acronym appears for the first
time in a news story, it is written after its
meaning and it is enclosed inparentheses.
Ex: University of the Philippines (UP)
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The first sentence of a paragraph is
indented.
In news stories, the rule is one paragraph,one sentence only.
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Check for errors in:
Tenses of Verbs
Subject-Verb Agreement
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
(agreement in gender and number)
Articles (a, an, the)
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Remember: he saidand not said he;
Aquino saidand not said Aquino
Remember: three-day training and notthree-days training.
Trained for three days and not
trained for three-day.
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It is used at the end of declarative and
imperative sentences.
It is used in abbreviations such as p.m.,a.m., Jr., Sr., Pres., Sen., Rep., Gov.,
Gen., Capt., Dr., Fr., Atty., Corp., and
Inc.
Acronyms of schools, organizations and
offices do not need periods.
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Use commas:
to separate the month and day from the
year.
to separate the street, barangay, town
and province in an address
to separate facts.Ex:Jolas Burayag, 17, sophomore BSIT
student
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Do not use commas:
to separate the abbreviation Jr., Sr., or III
from the name.
Ex: Emmanuel Delgado Jr.
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Use colons when presenting a series of
information and use semicolons to
separate components of the series.Ex. Elected officers of the Board of Elders
are: Dr. Arturo Guina, President; Atty.
Ferdinand Dumlao, Vice President; Dr.
Narciso V. Matienzo, Secretary; and Dr.
Poyen Pini, Treasurer.
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Use hyphen:
in most compound nouns
Ex: editor-in-chief, officer-in-charge
in fractions
Ex: two-thirds, three-fourths
in numerals
Ex: twenty-two, fifty-nine
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Quotation marks are used in direct
quotations. Indirect quotations do not
need them.Ex. I forgot it, he said.
He said he forgot it.
Periods and commas are written firstbefore closing quotation marks.
Ex. Lets go to SM, the boy said.
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Quotation marks are used to set off titles
of events, shows, movies, books, etc.
Ex. We watched The Titanic.Quotation marks are used to set off an
alias or nickname.
Ex. Ramon Bong Revilla JuniorJuan Chua also known as
BoySingkit
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Apostrophes are used in the possessive
form of the noun.
Ex. the teachers tablethe teachers meeting
In contractions of words
Ex. Im (am)youre (you are)
(Avoid using contractions except when
quoting sources)
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Watch out for jumbled letters, words and
paragraphs.
Delete editorializing words/phrases.
Ex. The very beautiful and intelligent
principal
The cops were right in arresting
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Check for redundancies (recurring
words/phrases/paragraphs, synonymous
or redundant terms).Ex. the concert the concert ended
at the back of the rear
advance planningasked a question
repeat again
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POINTERS:
5 Ws and 1 HQuotations
Details
One paragraph, one sentence
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