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Learn how reporters around the world write their news items and you will instantly learn the techniques of putting ideas into words. How does a news writer start a news report?
He or she uses an 'Inverted Pyramid'. It means, the most important part goes first. Then comes the details.
If you have any doubt, check today's newspaper. The headline gives you a good idea what the news is about. Then read the first line of the news item and you get a fairly good idea about the event being reported. If you don't want to go to the second paragraph, no problem. That is what inverted pyramid is about:
Read my own article on inverted pyramid (I wrote in in 2007):
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid
Your exercise: Write down the first two sentences of any news item you see in today's newspaper.
In Lesson 1, you learned how to dig ideas for an article
In Lesson 2, you learned how to dig out even more ideas with keyword research
In Lesson 3, you learned to convert ideas into simple sentences
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