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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