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1. EDITORIAL WRITING 2. The EDITORIAL PAGE of any newspaper is the voice of the editorial staff and the readers. It expresses the opinion of whatever the management of the publication feels in relation to the present occasion. 3. To explain and interpret the news. To put it in on its proper perspective. To analyze it To draw conclusions from that analysis. To persuade the readers To follow a course of action that the newspaper believes is for the public good regardless of party interests involved 4. Functions of an Editorial Writer 5. Explaining the news Filling the background Forecasting the future Passing moral judgment 6. TYPES OF EDITORIAL 7. • Explain or interpret • Criticize • Persuade • Praise 8. EXPLAIN or INTERPRET Editors often use these editorials to explain the way the newspaper covered a sensitive or controversial subject. School newspapers may explain new school rules or a particular student-body effort like a food drive. CRITICIZE These editorials constructively criticize actions, decisions or situations while providing solutions to the problem identified. Immediate purpose is to get readers to see the problem, not the solution. 9. PERSUADE Editorials of persuasion aim to immediately see the solution, not the problem. From the first paragraph, readers will be encouraged to take a specific, positive action. Political endorsements are good examples of editorials of persuasion. PRAISE These editorials commend people and organizations for something done well. They are not as common as the other three. 10. Elements of an Effective Editorial 11. A clear and specific idea that the writer is trying to address, and anyone who read the piece could agree on what that core idea was. Writer finds a way to make the topic relevant to the average reader, no matter how obscure it might at first seem. The piece offers a distinctive contribution to the conversation, bringing in new information, new ways of thinking about it, or new stories that might reshape how others see the matter. The writer asks questions that prompt further exploration and discovery about the topic. If the writer wants to see a change, they offer specific ideas for how to make it happen. 12. Controversial or uncommon statements of fact, they're backed up with references that can be verified. The piece uses as few words as is necessary to get the point across. Writer makes it personal somehow, showing us why this topic matters to them in their life. 13. Asking a simple question that could easily have been answered (or working from an incorrect premise that could easily have been debunked) with a little bit of research Attacking or insulting another person for their views, instead of addressing the views themselves Highly prescriptive and full of absolute imperatives for how other people must think and/or act Employing one or more logical fallacies.
