Newswriting tips

I hate myself

Keep leads ______

short

Try to keep leads to ______

One or two sentences

Mosty leads start with ______

Who or what

Which words are attention getters?

The first five to ten

______________ makes a better story than the fact it did

What happened

_____ your sentence lengths

Vary

Avoid using several _____________ in a sentence

Prepositional phrases

Try to limit paragraphs to _________

60 words or fewer

Paragraphs should only contain _______

One idea

Avoid introducin gnew info at the ______ of a story

end

__________ words are nessecary

Transition

Weak transition words

“When asked” and “concluded”

Whenever possible omit the word _______

That

Correct order for writing when and where

time, day, place

Eliminate the words ____________

Next and last

The proper pronoun to refer to a group

Its

Use ___________ for verbs in lists or sequences

Parallel construction

These are preferable to like

as and such as

Eliminate ______ adverbs

Lazy

Eliminate ______ adjectives

Lazy

Use _______ words

Simple