News reports vs news features continued. The 'human-interest' story.
31 Outubro 2016, 08:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
The week in review: A student's oral presentation. Working with British papers: looking for examples of both straight news reports and news features and analysing the structure of the two kinds of article including the kind of lead they display - direct lead or delayed lead.
The 'human-interest' story: "Supergran unmasked: Pensioner who saw off hammer raiders speaks out ..." (Mail online). HOMEWORK: Read Text 7 and Text 8 reporting on the same story and compare and contrast the particular language features of each article. Use the questions on page 26 of the Workbook (Popular press versus quality press) as guidelines for your analysis.