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Popular vs quality press: Comparing and contrasting two news stories on the same event.

2 Março 2023, 09:30 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Popular vs quality press: in-class group activity: comparing and contrasting the language features and overall style of two news stories reporting on the same event - TEXT 11 "Pride of Britain Awards 2011 ...", Daily Mirror; TEXT 12- "Pensioner prevented jewellery raid ...", The Guardian (groups will report on their findings on Monday, 6th March).

Press review guidelines and rubric. Shared knowledge in headlines. Features.

27 Fevereiro 2023, 09:30 • 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.

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

Reading “How to write journalism: Features” (TEXT 14).

Headlines continued: "Gheads you win" and "Crash blossoms".

23 Fevereiro 2023, 09:30 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Headlines continued: Reading and discussion of TEXT 9 - "Heads you win" and TEXT 10 - "Crash blossoms".

Syntactic ambiguity in headlines: analysing examples of garden-path sentences or crash blossoms.

A response or reaction paper. Headlines continued.

16 Fevereiro 2023, 09:30 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

A response or reaction paper: (a) how to organise a response paper; (b) style guidelines; (c) reaction paper rubric (assessment criteria).

Headlines: deducing the language features of headlines (syntax, commonly used short words, and other headlinese rules).

HOMEWORK: First writing assignment, a response paper, due on 27th February 2023; instructions were sent by email.

Front page graphic images: discusion of TEXTS 3, 4, and 5.

13 Fevereiro 2023, 09:30 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Discussion of three newspaper articles related to Front Page shocking images: students' oral reports and comments on their assigned text.

(a) "Are newspapers correct to use such shocking images on their front pages?" (TEXT 3);

(b) "Photo Editors' Notebook: What makes the image of Omran Daqneesh extraordinary?" (TEXT 4);