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Directed Writing - Article: Notes

The document provides tips for writing a directed article. It states that an article has only two components: 1) a title and 2) the writer's name. It recommends modeling the layout after a newspaper or magazine article by centering the title in capital letters and underlining it. The byline can be placed after the title or at the end of the article. An article should provide an overview of the topic before discussing the main aspect and can be structured like a newspaper article. Interesting titles are also suggested to capture attention like publications use.

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Directed Writing - Article: Notes

The document provides tips for writing a directed article. It states that an article has only two components: 1) a title and 2) the writer's name. It recommends modeling the layout after a newspaper or magazine article by centering the title in capital letters and underlining it. The byline can be placed after the title or at the end of the article. An article should provide an overview of the topic before discussing the main aspect and can be structured like a newspaper article. Interesting titles are also suggested to capture attention like publications use.

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NOTES

Directed Writing Article

Article is by far, the least complicated essay in terms of format as it has only 2
components:

1. title

2. writers name

Additional tips:

1. Imagine what an article in a newspaper or magazine would look like in terms of


layout and you will roughly have an idea of how to position the title as well as the by-
line.

Typically, the title is written at the top of the page in the centre with capital
letters and underlined.
For example,

The Title of This Article


The by-line can be written either right after the title of the article or at the end of the
article on the right.

For example,

The Title of This Article


Written by Adrian Ng

(essay)

or

The Title of This Article


(essay)

Written by

Adrian Ng
NOTES

2. Much like a speech, an article often revolves around a particular aspect of a topic,
be it the causes, effects, advantages etc. As such, an article should start off with a
general overview of the topic before going into the main aspect being discussed. Again,
newspaper and magazine articles are great examples of how we should go about
structuring the content of an article.

3. Another trick that we can learn from newspaper and magazine articles is the use
of interesting titles. In real life publication, this is used to capture readers attention. In
an exam, this can help to bring up ones overall language marks.

For example,

You recently attended a leadership camp organised by your school. At the camp, one
of your friends was chosen as best camper. You have been asked to write
an article about your friend for your school magazine. (SPM 2008)

Standard title Best Camper


Interesting title Today Camper, Tomorrow Leader

*While the aim is to be interesting, titles should still be relevant to the topic of the
essay and not just blindly dramatic.

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