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Attributing quotes is an important thing in the news industry. Attributive verbs compliment the tone of a quote. In chapter 7 of Rene J. Cappon’s The Associated Press Guide to News Writing , he says the best attributive verbs are shot, clear, neutral, and unfailingly accurate. This week we will be looking at chapter 7 of The Associated Press Guide to News Writing: Pitfalls: Attributive Verbs and Loaded Words. Words have a time and a place and attributive verbs are no different. Cappon expresses the importance of good attributive verbs due to how they affect a quote. Cappon writes that attributive verbs must be plan and neutral. Loaded words are also something Cappon talks about in this chapter. Cappon explains that some words can carry news writers beyond what they intended to say and import value judgments into stories where they don’t belong. Certain terms and words can have a double meaning and can affect how sentence is portrayed. The readers of these sentences may interp

In writing it is hard to pick up tone, but phrases convey tone in writing. In Rene J. Cappon’s Associated Press Guide to News Writing chapter 6: Tone: The Inner Music of Words – Cappon goes into the importance of tone. This week we will looking at this chapter and see how well Cappon conveys his message and why he expresses the importance of tone. In the chapter Cappon explains that certain news stories have a certain kind of tone. Usually descriptive words can throw a meaning of the story off. One of the examples Cappon uses, “In 1917, when the czar got the boot…” A czar is forced from his phone, not boot or fired. While the meaning maybe similar to what happened, it is not accurate for the sake of the story. Cappon explains the necessity of having a transparent message in a news story because while a phrase may sound clever for your story it can throw the overall tone off. Overall this chapter was not a bad addition to Cappon’s guidebook. It tells you what you are learning,

A lot of genres have a sub-category and, in some cases, a sub-language. Like in sports you have sports talk. There are many variations of things like this and journalism is no different. Journalese is the so-called language of journalism as aptly put by Rene J. Cappon in his guidebook The Associated Press Guide to News Writing. This week we will be looking at Journalese, the fifth chapter in Cappon’s guidebook. In the chapter, Cappon talks about journalese. Journalese is an artificial language of news style used in popular media. In journalese, phrases that are not necessary to the story are often pushed in for dramatization. Cappon again inserts his overarching message of directness and simple writing. Journalese is used to get attention and Cappon believe it is not the best way to get it. Overall, this chapter was bit repetitive for explaining what journalese is and could have been trimmed down to be a shorter chapter.