СОДЕРЖАНИЕ

ARTICLE 4

News Articles 4

Feature Articles 5

Other types of articles 6

ELEMENTS OF AN ARTICLE 6

NEWS STYLE 8

Overview 8

Terms and structure 9

Inverted pyramid 14

FEATURE STYLE 16

Feature story 17

ASSIGNMENTS 18

ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ

В настоящем издании представлены в основном аутентичные англоязычные тексты, взятые из сети INTERNET на ресурсе http://en.wikipedia.org/. Тексты содержат обширный материал по форме и стилистике подачи информации, принятые в современной англоязычной журналистике. Отметим, что материал достаточно сложный и предназначен для курса специализированного английского языка для студентов старших курсов специальности «Журналистика» и «Международная журналистика». Пособие также может быть использовано на старших курсах филологического факультета по специальности «Русский язык и литература». Целью данного курса является изучение специальных текстов, освоение специальной лексики по заданной тематике. В процессе аудиторной и самостоятельной работы студентов над данными текстами настоятельно рекомендуется читать тексты, проверяя произношение слов по словарю, выписывать новые слова в специальный тематический словник и тщательно их заучивать. Способствовать лучшему пониманию текстов призваны также небольшие коммуникативные задания к ним, цель которых состоит в том, чтобы ориентировать читателя в поиске новой информации, а также стимулировать к применению в дальнейшем новой усвоенной лексики в собственной устной или письменной речи.

Article

Read the text below and say: What is the main difference between news articles and feature articles?

An article is a stand-alone section of a larger written work. These nonfictional prose compositions appear in magazines, newspapers, academic journals, the Internet or any other type of publication.

Articles can be divided into two main categories: news and features. Straight news stories deal with the timeliness and immediacy of breaking news, while feature articles are news stories that deal with human-interest topics or which offer the opportunity for providing more breadth or depth, context of history or other explanatory background material.

News Articles

What is there specific to your mind about news articles? What is the inverted pyramid style?

A news article is an article published in a print or Internet news medium such as a newspaper, newsletter, news magazine or news-oriented website that discusses current or recent news of either general interest (i.e. daily newspapers) or on a specific topic (i.e. political or trade news magazines, club newsletters, or technology news websites).

A news article can include accounts of eyewitnesses to the happening event. It can contain photographs, accounts, statistics, graphs, recollections, interviews, polls, debates on the topic, etc. Headlines can be used to focus the reader’s attention on a particular (or main) part of the article. The writer can also give facts and detailed information following answers to general questions like who, what, when, where, why and how.

Quoted references can also be helpful. References to people can also be made through written accounts of interviews and debates confirming the factuality of the writer’s information and the reliability of her source. The writer can use redirection to ensure that the reader keeps reading the article and to draw his attention to other articles. For example, phrases like "Continued on page 3” redirect the reader to a page where the article is continued.

While a good conclusion is an important ingredient for newspaper articles, the immediacy of a deadline environment means that copy editing often takes the form of deleting everything past an arbitrary point in the story corresponding to the dictates of available space on a page. Therefore, newspaper reporters are trained to write in inverted pyramid style, with all the most important information in the first paragraph or two. If less vital details are pushed towards the end of the story, the potentially destructive impact of draconian copy editing will be minimized.

Feature Articles

Try to find Russian equivalents to the names of the enumerated feature articles from the text below:

Feature articles are nonfiction articles that intend to inform, teach or amuse the reader on a topic. The topic centers around human interests. Feature stories may include conventions found in fiction such as dialogue, plot and character. A feature article is an umbrella term that includes many literary structures: personality sketches, essays, how-to's, interviews and many others. The following are examples of feature articles:

Column — A short newspaper or magazine piece that deals specifically with a particular field of interest, or broadly with an issue or circumstance of far-reaching scope. They appear with bylines on a regular basis (daily, weekly, etc.). They may be written exclusively for one newspaper or magazine, they may be marketed by a syndicate, or they may be self-syndicated by the author.

Essay — A short, literary, nonfiction composition (usually prose), in which a writer develops a theme or expresses an idea.

Evergreen — A timeless article that editors can hold for months and publish when needed. They need little or no updating.

Exposé — These articles use in-depth reporting with heavy research and documentation. Used to expose corruption in business, politics or celebrities. Also called the investigative article.

Filler — Short non-fiction items, usually just under 300 words, used to fill in small spaces on a page of a magazine or newspaper page.

How-to — How-to articles help people to learn how to do something. They provide step-by-step information for the reader.

Human interest story — An article that involves local people and events and can be sold to daily and some weekly newspapers. Human interest elements, such as anecdotes or accounts of personal experiences, can support ideas in magazine articles as firmly as facts or statistics. Also called "true-life" stories.

Interview —This feature story type article includes the text of the conversation between two or more people, normally directed by the interviewer. Interviews are often edited for clarity. One common variation is the roundtable — the text of a less organized discussion, usually between three or more people.

Op-Ed — Articles that run opposite the editorial page. They are a response to current editorials and topical subjects. Political op-eds are the most common, but they don't have to be limited to politics. They should, however, reflect items that are current and newsworthy.

Personal experience — An article in which the writer recounts an ordeal, process or event he has undergone.

Personality Profile — A personal or professional portrait — sometimes both — of a particular individual.

Seasonal — An article written about a holiday, a season of the year or a timely observance. This kind of article will be submitted months in advance of the anticipated publication date.

Service Article — An article about a consumer product or service; it outlines the characteristics of several versions of the same type of commodity. The aim is to help a potential purchaser to make the best selection possible.

Sidebar — A short feature that accompanies a news story or magazine article. It elaborates on human interest aspects of the story, explains one important facet of the story in more depth or provides additional factual information — such as a list of names and addresses — that would read awkwardly in the body of the article. Can be found in a box, separated from the main article on the side or bottom of the page.

Travel literature — Travel articles inform and enlighten the reader through facts about a region's landscape, scenery, people, customs and atmosphere.