Ok before we start to flog my tired of catchphrase..what up my blog reading enthusiasts ?
So if you read my earlier post you’ll see it’s another news report on the effects snow have had on various public services around the good old city of Lincoln . This difference is from the one I did last week that this one I’ve done in the style of the national newspaper The Guardian. To adhere to this I’ve followed done the following things:
- For my quotes I’ve imbedded them into the copy. An example would as follows- Solicitor Kelly Taylor said "There is no such thing as a free day off to frolic in the snow".
- The normal wiritng age for a paper is 12, however since The Guardian as is slightly upper end I was able to use slightly more complex vocabulary like ‘procedures’ since the paper’s target audience could be considered slightly more intellectual since their in the ABC1 catergory.
- In terms of structure the Guardian seems a little more comfortbale with using small paragraphs ranging from two long setences to bigger paragraphs from three to four sentences.
- I also used digits instead of writing numbers which is consitent with a normal Guardian artilce.
- However I did think the subject like covering the ST John Ambulance service fit into the niche angle The Guardian tends to look for.
Now for the things which I know aren’t consitent with a run of the mill Guardian artilce.
- I realise the subject of the artilce is way to local or even for a national paper the term ‘mirco local’ may apply.
- The length itself my be inconsistent with your standard Guardian artilce as mine only measures upto about 300 words (but I found this was limit before it became a tad overstrecthed) while most Guardian artilces are least 500 words or more.
This is very good work. You are really beginning to manage self criticism very well.
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