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Posted by
Lourdes on
Oct 5th, 2009
(World Teachers’ Day, October 5, 2005)
Happy World Teachers’ Day to everyone!
Amidst the turbulent waters of educational crisis,
Poverty and the trying times, we can still choose to be happy;
Paragons of righteousness and proper values...
Posted by
journaliz on
Oct 1st, 2009
Upon overhearing my sister Dolour say “rent-a-friend,” my ever-curious mind was instantly triggered. I can’t get my head off of the thought. It even haunted me during bedtime.
My fingers were itching to write.
I know houses are...
Posted by
journaliz on
Sep 29th, 2009
Flood water level came up one inch every 60 seconds as dams released 100 cubic meters of rain water per second; overflowed rivers ran 20-30 miles per hour; helpless people stuck waiting on their roofs, even the rich and the famous weren’t...
Posted by
journaliz on
Sep 17th, 2009
Tips in Feature Writing
1. Avoid Wordiness.
If you can express your thoughts in one or a few words or phrases the better. This would make your feature story more profound and would avoid the “elementary” and running-round-the-bush effect. Prefer...
Posted by
journaliz on
Sep 12th, 2009
The design of the 1st rice field art in Thailand
One Friday night as I was watching the news over GMA 7, I came across a headline about Thailand’s rice field art — an art of strategically planting different colors of rice showing amazing...
Posted by
journaliz on
Sep 11th, 2009
It was my niece Thea Louralei’s 2nd birthday. After church at 4 p.m. everyone was busy in the kitchen. Her mommy Dolour prepared some spaghetti, macaroni salad, and home-made ice cream. Her Auntie April cooked special fried chicken – a recipe...
Posted by
Lourdes on
Sep 10th, 2009
Source: Secondary Schools Handbook in Campus Journalism
By: Dr. Lourdes D. Servito
1. Headlines are telegraphic or short cut, basically because space on newspapers is highly considered. So some words can be substituted by punctuation marks.
Example...
Posted by
journaliz on
Sep 8th, 2009
Some 1,600 campus journalists joined the 2009 Campus Journalism Workshop at PNHS.
A huge crowd of 1,600 high school students and language teachers attended the 2009 Division Training Workshop for School Paper Advisers and Campus Journalists held...
Posted by
journaliz on
Sep 3rd, 2009
This is very interesting.
My sister Dolour’s laugh was contagious. I was immediately drawn to what she was chuckling about — a video on youtube. Ever heard of the “Word of the Lourd?” It is a compilation of video clips by...