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Kipling's
Poem, My Six Servants |
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of a short news article |
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«My Six
Servants»
I keep six honest serving-men
They taught me all I knew;
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.1
Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936
(follows "The Elephant's Child")
Analysis of a Short News Story
Rudyard Kipling's
six servants
have always played a great role in journalism. An easy way to
remember the
six servants'
preeminence is to place them in "The Inverted Pyramid," a tool
used by news reporters.
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The most important questions words
who
and
what
are
at the top, followed by the others. In news reporting, people are
mostly interested in
who
did
what.
Therefore, writers begin by treating those questions words first, and
why,
when,
how
and
where
afterward. That's one of the most favourite ways of writing a news
article.
Access the inverted pyramid. 
The "six servants" can be also used to analyse the content of a news report. By finding the answers to the question words, we can get the most important information contained in a news article. Once we know the essential messages contained in a news article, we can summarize the article easily.
Links to newspapers online
The texts presented on the Internet
by news agencies and newspapers offer a great choice of topics, themes
and centres of interests to realize the ESL programme objectives.
Since news change every day, it becomes continuous resources of
information and learning. To learn more about the importance of News on
the Internet, reading the following web reference will give you more
ideas on the topic. Go to
News and Journalistic Sources.
A great selection of news sites can
be accessed on the WEB. Here is a list of descriptions and links
to the most common ones. You may, of course, add your
favourite sites.
Go to the links
Here is an example of a news article followed by its analysis. Reading it will lead you into a successful web site exercise and evaluation.
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1 J.M.
and M.J. COHEN, Dictionary of Quotations, Bloomsbury Books,
London, 1991, p. 223.
2 Dr. Hugh PARTLOW. Learning
from Newspapers, Revised Edition, Canadian Daily Newspapers
Publishers Association, Toronto (Ontario), P. 10-12.
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For more references : go to Works Cited.
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