PLANNING YOUR PLANNING YOUR ARTICLEARTICLE

 

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WHICH GLOBAL TOPICS WHICH GLOBAL TOPICS INTEREST YOU?INTEREST YOU?

The audience you choose might alter the language and style that you use

Writing for people your age, you may want to be more informal

For a general audience, more formal language may be appropriate

WHO ARE YOU WRITING FOR?WHO ARE YOU WRITING FOR?

Do you want to inform or persuade?An article about Pakistan art may be

to informAn article about how youth are

wrongly portrayed in the media may be to persuade

WHY ARE YOU WRITING?WHY ARE YOU WRITING?

WHAT THE STUDENTS WROTEWHAT THE STUDENTS WROTE

Topic: Truck Art in Pakistan

Audience:Young people in London

Purpose: Writing to inform

EXAMPLEEXAMPLE

This is a simple way of choosing the four things that you want your audience to know

Do all your research first and then think about what those four points might be

CHOOSING PARAGRAPHSCHOOSING PARAGRAPHS

Para 1 An introduction to truck art Para 2 Origins of truck art and why

people have their truck decoratedPara 3 Some of the common designs

that people choosePara 4 How truck art shows a different side to Pakistan

EXAMPLEEXAMPLE

Use the internet or a libraryFind reliable sources

A custom search site has been set up for you at: www.is.gd/researchthenews

This only shows results from well known newspapers, TV and NGOs

RESEARCHING NEWS ARTICLESRESEARCHING NEWS ARTICLES

Topic, audience and purpose Research online or in the library All the notes you need to write your

article Title, standfirst and paragraphs Print outs of any pictures or

diagrams

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