Typhoon Ondoy’s Outrage...
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 spared; some perilously clang on to trees or held tight...
Tips in Feature Writing #2...
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 words or phrases that are featurized and concise....
How about a rice field art in the Philip...
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 patterns as the rice plants grow months later. Aside...
Thea Louralei’s 2nd Birthday...
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 of her own, while her Grandma and Grandpa had birthday...
Tips in Headline Writing...
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 1: 800 mentors and students participated in the writing...
1,600 studes, mentors attend division tr...
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 at the Pangasinan National High School (PNHS), Lingayen,...
“Filipinos” chocolate...
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 a guy named Lourd, which tackle intriguing and thought-provoking...
Servito speaks at Campus Journalism Work...
Dr. Servito discussing tips in Feature Writing.
KSS Consultant/Campus Journalism Trainor, Dr. Lourdes D. Servito, discussed some tips on writing features during the Division Campus Journalism Seminar-Workshop held Sept 1, at Lingayen I Central School (LICS), Lingayen, Pangasinan.
Some 1,600 kids —...
