News Report

News Report

News reports are found in newspapers, and their purpose is to inform readers of what is happening in the world around them. Reports are written for a specific professional purpose and a specific audience. The evaluative reports are written about present issues and future solutions. Leading Reports examine a problem or explains a situation and leads the readers to a specific conclusion.

  • The register must be formal. The language must be straightforward so that the reader can understand.
  • Use varied vocabulary related to the topic.
  • Make sure your sentences are complete and well structured.
  • Your tone should be formal and appropriate to the context, purpose, and audience of your report.
  • Use sequenced connectors.
  • Write clear topic sentences, support sentences, and closing sentences.
  • Start with a catchy headline.
  • Your first paragraph must be a lead paragraph to introduce and inform the most important aspects (context): who, what, when, where, why, how.
  • In your body paragraph, enrich the part of why and how.
  • If writing an evaluative report, mention the characteristics of two items to be compared. They can be similarities or differences. Conclude by stating your choice and justify it.
  • If writing a leading report, include an introduction to the topic, present your arguments (ideas) and evidence and examples that justify them, finish with a conclusion that provides solutions, recommendations, or actions to be taken.
  • Audience: This refers to the people likely to read your article. These can be the general public or the specific demographic targeted by the newspaper.
  • Context: This will be defined by your topic and the type of publication.
  • Purpose: To report.
  • Saad AlDin, K. & Morley, K. (2018). English B: Second Edition. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. Pages 198-200.