Unit 3: The importance of the evolution of languages

Unit 3: The importance of the evolution of languages

LET'S MAKE A REVIEW OF CONCEPTS...

What is important when writing a

Newspaper opinion piece ?

Multiple Select

What elements do you need to bare in mind in a newspaper piece?

• consider genre, audience, purpose and style.

• exaggerate in order to generate an opinion

• entertain by making readers recognize an everyday issue

• The tone of the opinion piece.

Multiple Choice

What does GAPS stand for?

• it refers to genre, audience, purpose and style

• It refers to what type of text you be written

• it refers to the purpose of the text

• It makes a reference to whom is reading your text

So in detail...

what GAPS really is?

GENRE

AUDIENCE

Characteristics of an opinion column

•Newspapers and magazines often have columnists who write for them. Columnists may be very outspoken in their opinions. Nevertheless, their opinions are in tune with the readership of a particular magazine or newspaper. Furthermore, their opinions are newsworthy, meaning that they both comment on the hot topics of the day, and their opinions are worthy of publication.

now, according to what you studied the last lesson...

what are the most important characteristics of a newspaper opinion column?

Multiple Select

What are the most important characteristics of an opinion column?

• It talks about any kind of events , it talks in a formal way to the reader, It gives real or fake opinions and it appeals to persuade your readers with logic information.

• It talks about events that the writer wants , it talks indirectly to the reader, It gives real opinions and it appeals to persuade your readers with imaginary information.

• It talks about relevant events , it talks directly to the reader, It gives real opinions and it appeals to persuade your readers with logic information.

Characteristics of an opinion column

• a. Newsworthy: The relevance in an event to be written and be told and comment to the rest of the people.

• b. Call to action: talk directly to the reader to become involved an issue.

• c. Hard facts: are the references to conclusions about studies, percentages and numbers. Always remember to make a reference about the source you took the information.

• d. Logos: to appeal to logic and reason to persuade your readers and to demonstrate your opinion is really true.

"Hard facts"

in simple words... what are hard facts to you? can you give a answer without having so much knowledge on this?

Poll

Why are “hard facts” important in an opinion column?

• This aspect gives the opinion column credibility

• This aspect helps to persuade the readers

Hard facts :

This aspect of newsworthiness gives an opinion column credibility. For Example: when you give the projected population growth for 2050 and quotes a senator's tweets.

1.   Even if climate change proves less catastrophic than some fear, in a world that is forecast to grow from 6.7 billion to 9.2 billion people between now and 2050, more and more of whom will live like Americans, demand for renewable energy and clean water is going to soar. It is obviously going to be the next great global industry

What are the things you need to write an appropriate opinion column?

Here you can see 10 points that will help you a lot!