Academic Studies English - Reading Comprehension: Journalism

Journalism is writing designed for publication in a newspaper or a magazine; in addition, the word is now applied to reporting in the electronic media - TV, radio, Internet. Ideally, this type of writing is meant to be a direct presentation of facts on subjects of current interest, free from all opinion or bias. This is called objective writing. When writing contains opinions, bias, or an interpretation of the facts, it is called subjective writing.

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For Love of Mother-Not - Alan Dean Foster

SUMMARY: He was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely campelling stare when Mather Mastiff first saw him an the auctioneer's block. One hundred credits and he was hers.For years the old woman was his only family. She loved him, fed him, taught him everything she knew -- even let him keep the deadly flying snake he called Pip.Then Mother Mastiff mysteriously disappeared and Flinx took Pip to tail her kidnappers. Across the forests and swamps of the winged world called Moth, their only weapons were Pip's venom . . . and Flinx's unusual Talents.

Bruno is nine years old, and the Nazis’ horrific Final Solution to the ‘Jewish Problem’ means nothing to him. He's completely unaware of the barbarity of Germany under Hitler, and is more concerned by his move from his well-appointed house in Berlin to a far less salubrious area where he finds himself with nothing to do. Then he meets a boy called Shmuel who lives a very different life from him - a life on the opposite side of a wire fence.

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The words a or an and the are called articles. Articles come before nouns.

There are two articles – a/an and the

The article a or an is called the indefinite article because it doesn’t state which person or thing we are talking about….

Read the following sentence:

    Hearing a loud noise, the boy woke up.

Here the word hearing qualifies the noun boy as an adjective does. It is formed from the verb hear and has an object – noise. The word hearing, therefore, has the properties of a verb and an adjective and is called a participle......