The Associated Press Guide to News Writing Chapter 5 Review
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.
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