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Common Terms in school paper

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name of our school paper?

a)

Little Blue Stockings

b)

Little Blue Paper

c)

Little Blue Star

d)

Young Scholastican Journalists

2.

What collective noun refers to the members of a school paper?

a)

club

b)

staff

c)

team

d)

class

3.

What do you call the article that contains an expression of the opinion of the editor?

a)

editorial

b)

editorship

c)

editing

d)

editor-in-chief

4.

What term refers to the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own?

a)

copyright

b)

article

c)

authorship

d)

plagiarism

5.

The following are examples of what can be seen in a literary page, except one. Which is NOT?

a)

poems

b)

short stories

c)

crossword puzzle

d)

haikus

6.

what do you call a title or explanatory phrase accompanying a picture?

a)

capslock

b)

caption

c)

column

d)

card

7.

what do you call the process of means carefully checking a text for errors before it is published or shared?

a)

proofmarking

b)

prooftexting

c)

proofcorrecting

d)

proofreading

8.

What do you call an author's exclusive right of property for his works?

a)

authorship

b)

original work

c)

copyright

d)

penmanship

9.

It is a story in which the interest lies in some factor other than the news value, usually to entertain.

a)

editorial

b)

headline

c)

fun page

d)

feature

10.

These are the major questions answered in the lead of a well-written news story.

a)

who and what

b)

who, what, and when

c)

who, what, when, and where

d)

who, what, when, where, and how