Shared knowledge in headlines continued. Journalistic genres. Texts 8 and 9.

25 Outubro 2021, 11:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Shared knowledge in headlines: discussing examples of headlines that are related to specific cultural references continued.

Journalistic genres: Straight news stories/reports and features. Direct and delayed leads; the inverted pyramid style and the narrative style; nut graphs.

READING MATTERS TEXT 8 ("How journalists write") and TEXT 9 ("Features").

Online tutorial.

20 Outubro 2021, 10:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Online tutorial: individual meetings with students to clear doubts they may have about their forthcoming oral presentations.

Press review guidelines and rubric. Shared knowledge in headlines.

19 Outubro 2021, 11:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Individual press review (The Week in Review: Your Pick of Stories) - instructions explained; rubric (assessment criteria); tips on how to organise an oral presentation.

Crash blossoms: ambiguity in headlines.

18 Outubro 2021, 11:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Reading and discussion of READING MATTERS TEXT 6 - "Crash blossoms". Syntactic ambiguity in headlines: analysing examples of garden-path sentences or crash blossoms. Doing the exercise “Ambiguous headlines" (p. 22-23) and checking the answers.

Online Tutorial: "Nobel Peace Prize for journalists ..."

13 Outubro 2021, 10:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Reading and discussion of the article "Nobel Peace Prize for journalists serves as a reminder that the freedom of the press is under threat" (Nieman Journalism Lab ) by Kathy Kiely, Nieman Foundation, October 11, 2021.