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Lecture Eight News Report Writing Course Outline Sentence Pattern 7 News Report Writing Assignments News Report Writing Activity 2: Classroom Discussion Sample Analysis Writing Principles Self-revision and Group Interaction * Adverbial Clause Followed by an Absolute Construction “Even as she was falling asleep, head bowed over the child, she was still aware of a strange wakeful happiness.” – Katherine Anne Porter Assignment: Open with an adverbial “as” clause followed by an absolute construction describing the image of a person. As he sat before the doctor, his mangled hand dripping with blood, the fluorescent light accented the pallor of his skin and the fear in his eyes. As they courageously crawled toward the crest of the crag, their feet festering from fatigue, the climbers collapsed from exhaustion. Activity 1: Pre-writing Watch the video below and write a news report about what you have seen to your university broadcasting station or a local newspaper in any way you think appropriate within 5 minutes. Discuss the following news report within your group and try to find its good points and problems by considering the following questions:a) What is the purpose of writing this news story? Is the writing purpose clear? Can you add a proper head to the news story? b) What is the relationship between the writer and the reader? Is it close or distant? c) Is it to be read or to be spoken? What is the mode of the writing? d) What are the necessary semantic elements and optional elements? Why do you think so? e) What are the common language features in news report writing? What social functions do they realize? News Report Writing March 3. Huzhou Zhejiang. People will go back working place and wait for training for 40 hours. Many people sleep in the train station. What’s worse, they got headack. After Spring Festival, workers will come back working place. They went to train station to wait their trains. These days, it is snowy and trains couldn’t work. The