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Text Features

Text Features. Identifying important parts of newspapers, magazines, textbooks and online sources. Basic Text Features. Headline: text at the top of a newspaper article, indicating the nature of the article below it.

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Text Features

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  1. Text Features Identifying important parts of newspapers, magazines, textbooks and online sources

  2. Basic Text Features • Headline: text at the top of a newspaper article, indicating the nature of the article below it. • Dek: A phrase, sentence or several sentences near the title of an article or story • Subheading: Generally used to provide information about specific aspects of a story; used throughout

  3. Text Features, cont. • Masthead: a list, usually found on the editorial page of a newspaper or other periodical, listing the publisher, editorial board, advertising rates, etc • Nameplate: the title of the newspaper i.e. The Greenville News, usually includes establish date, today’s date and subheading • Bold-faced words: key words that may be new or important vocabulary

  4. More text features • Quotes: direct quotes that lend credibility to an article or entry • Italics: important words, references • Underlined Words • Byline- author’s name and credentials • Photos- pictures of events and people listed in news stories • Captions- give information about photo

  5. Practice with this paper. How many text features can you identify?

  6. Skimming v. Scanning • Skimming: a reading technique that can help you to: - read more quickly - decide if the text is interesting and whether you should read it in more detail • Skimming is a fast reading technique. Use it to obtain the gist of a piece of text (i.e. to quickly identify the main ideas in the text).

  7. Skimming v. Scanning • How do you skim read? • Don't read the whole text word-for-word. Use as many clues as possible to give you some background information. There might be pictures or images related to the topic, or an eye-catching title. Let your eyes skim over the surface of the text and, whilst thinking about any clues you have found about the subject, look out for key words.

  8. Skimming Tips 1. Read the title, subtitles and subheading to find out what the text is about.2. Look at the illustrations to give you further information about the topic.3. Read the first and last sentence of each paragraph. 4. Don't read every word or every sentence. Let you eyes skim over the text, taking in key words.5. Continue to think about the meaning of the text.

  9. Skimming v. Scanning

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