NEWS ITEM
Definition and Purpose According to the Oxford English Dictionary, news item text is a text which inform readers about events of the day. News item is one type of text in English that is used if you want to learn to be a good journalist. Structure and Language Characteristics In news item text, there are three parts of the linguistic structure, namely: The main event is the main part that tells the event or the main news that you want to discuss Elaboration or event background contains an explanation of the main event part. Source is about the source of the news, and this also includes comments and things given by the source The following are the linguistic characteristics of other text news items: Brief information contained in the headline Focus on an incident Dominant uses saying verbs, such as reported, quoted, said, preached, and so on. Generally use action verbs, which are verbs that show activity Often use auxiliary...