The Associated Press Guide to News Writing Chapter 8 Review


As a reporter getting quotes from your interviews is imperative. In the eighth chapter of Rene J. Cappon’s the Associated Press Guide to News Writing: Quotes: Your Words or Mine? he goes over the importance of quotes and how to properly write them. This week we look over this chapter and review it.

Quotes are indispensable to reporters and Cappon makes sure you know that. When writing out quotes it is important to attribute quotes to the source that said and to enclose the captions around it.
In this chapter Cappon explains a lot of basics of quotes like when to quote, how to use them and where to place them. Cappon expresses that the importance of placing said properly and effectively.  In a way to avoid fragmented quotes, Cappon explains the importance of paraphrase and how it can save choppy quotes.

This chapter had more examples than explanations. Cappon goes on and on too much about the basics of quoting which hurts the flow of this chapter. This chapter becomes derivative in the sense that if anyone who is already reading this book has had experience in journalistic work so the basic of quoting is already common knowledge to them. Overall this chapter was rather dull and spent a lot of time on basics that journalists or journalist in training should already know. This was definitely the weakest chapter by far.

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