Friday, 23 January 2015

6F - Journalistic Writing

6F have been looking at the features of journalistic writing by creating newspaper reports of a fictitious burglary. Here is the end of Anish's article:




It is thought that the thief had planned to sell it to buyers as the collection was worth, on average, £210,000. It was well known that Mr. Smith had a large collection of priceless stamps dating back to Victorian times because he would often show people his continuously-growing collection. He was outraged that someone would take his collection with no consideration.

Mr. Smith is currently staying with friends as the police are still searching his property for evidence. For the neighbourhood, it has made them consider their own safety as well as where they leave their belongings. Burglaries are on the rise, like a crime wave breaking over a city, because of government cut-backs on police. As a consequence, thieves are taking advantage of this and more people are becoming victims of crime. 





6 comments:

  1. Well done for including a range of sentence types in your writing.

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  2. Wow Anish! Great Journalistic Writing. I like the words continuously and advantage.
    Your classmate,
    Owen :-)

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  3. Well Done Anish! I really liked this newspaper article.
    I like the drop-in-clauses for extra information, such as: on average. I also like the metaphor:Burglaries are on the rise.

    Your classmate
    Hilary

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  4. well done Anish!
    There were lots of facts/statistics in it. as well as lots of good adjectives like: priceless and continuously-growing.
    from Anish

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  5. Well done Anish! These piece of writing (newspaper report) is very intresting.
    By using more facts, you have given more information.
    Keep up the good work.
    From Mathusha! :) ;)

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  6. Well done Anish! I like your use of sophisticated openers such as it is thought that. I also like the way that you used the metaphor "burglaries are on the rise".
    Your classmate
    Melanie:)

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