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About Me
- Pete
- Springfield (Ill.), United States
- I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.
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It is good to visualize a martini glass when organizing a journalistic story. By this, I mean, you start with a general lead, and work your way to more and more detailed analysis.
The inverted pyramaid. The most important stuff you put in the beginning and towards the end you put the less important details.
The inverted pyramid is a style of writing a news story where the most general details are the first thing in the story along with the lead. It becomes more detailed and specific as the story continues.
The martini glass starts like the inverted pyramid where at the beginning the most general information and the lead are present. Next the nut graf becomes more detailed and then forming the base of the "martini glass" is a summerization of the story.
i think the inverted pyramid and the martini glass are both good guidlines to writing a news story. they both illustrate the importance for having a lot of info and developing it into a story and then wrapping it up
The main thing to start off in a good jornalistic story is to have a good lead. Start with the most important pieces of the story. Then add in your minor details.
You would either use a inverted pyramid of the lead at top and the less important going down.It helps to prioritize what work you will be doing .
Nut graphs are often used in conjunction with delayed ledes on feature stories. A feature story may begin with a delayed lede, often featuring description or an anecdote, that can last several paragraphs. it then follows the main points of the story and so on and so forth.
I remember the inverted pyramid and martini glass to a T. They are basically the same but being a college student the word martini helps you remember it a bit better. Also the Kabob
Yea, Yea! The martini glass! We learned about the martini glass in "Editing for Publication" class. This specific term is basically a pretty name for the inverted pyramid because all of the most important info is at the beginning of the story, and the less important details go towards the bottom. If you can catch the reader's attention with the vital details, they may still be reading the story when its over.
Like my classmates have already stated, it is working from the broad to the narrow, starting with the pertinent info first (not like us ADD Americans can make it through an entire news article anyway, right?;)
I mostly remember the inverted pyramid. This news writing style places the most important information at the very beginning. This is to catch the attention of the reader and also to make sure the main point was captured if the reader only glances at it for a moment.
The "inverted triangle" technique is the most effective method used when developing an article. You begin with the most broad informaiton to draw in your reader then you continue with the details.
The inverted pyramid is writing the most important information of the story first followed by the least important information. The inverted pyramid helps the reader gather information quickly.
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