COMM-200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Prior Restraint, Photo Caption, Ageism

• School: American University
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM-200
• Professor: Professor H

Document Summary

Conveys information, ideas, and feelings to the reader clearly but without overstatement. One of the most important forms of writing is the inverted pyramid structure of news writing - order of importance rather than chronological. All communicators must write a message before its sent to its intended audience. Breaking an audience into its composite groups is an important activity for people who need to communicate essential messages. Interviews, library and online research, other sources. Stage four: writing the message as you would tell it. Passive voice is formed by putting is or was in front of the past tense of the verb. Appositive phrases come after a noun and rename it. Information should be presented in order of its importance. A story should be written so that if it needs to be cut, it can be cut from the bottom without loss of essential facts or coherence.