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WRITING
By : Rojas, Xandra
P.
BSEd IV-A
• Columns are the most personal of all
newspaper writing. They have a very
personal appeal, an authoritative influence,
and very useful contribution to make in
spreading news and opinions.
• They’re written to inform, to influence, or to
entertain readers.
• They’re high in reader-interest for they
stimulate public discussion of the day’s
affairs.
VARIETIES OF COLUMNS
Round-about-school and community columns
Discussive articles
Columns on various topics
Food-for-thought Columns
Feature columns
Humor columns
How-to-do-it columns
Exchange Columns
Critical Report Columns
Book Reviews
PURPOSE OF THE COLUMN
• The main purpose of the column is to inform,
interpret, and to a large degree, to fiscalize.
3. Business Column
- contains materials about economy, trade
commerce and industry
4. Sports Column
- deals exclusively about sports.
5. Art Column
- deals mostly on painting, architecture, flower
arrangement, paper mache, ikebana, and the
like.
6. Women’s Column
-concerns itself about the latest fashion, beauty
tips and anything about homemaking.
7. Entertainment Column
- all about music, theater, cinema, and the
people involved in them.
10. Reviews
-review of an article, a book, a movie, a drama
or a painting.
According to content
1. The “opinion” column
Resembles an editorial in form but, in contrast
with the editorials impersonal and anonymous
approach, carries the personal, stamp of the
writers own ideas.
2. The hodge-podge column
Where the author lumps together odds and
ends of information, a poem here, an
announcement there, a pointed paragraph, a
modernized proverb, a joke, or an interesting
question.
3. The essay column
Is a legacy from a more leisurely age when
writers could seat and scribble an muse in light
or purple prose.
4. The gossip column
Caters to the interest of human beings.
5. The dopesters column
Written by the columnist who also has his
eye to the keyhole but with a more serious
purpose.
TIPS
• Don’t be imitative of the style and
techniques of known columnists. Try your
own methods.
• Go everywhere for facts and materials.
• Study and interpret rather than moralize.
• Apply all the principles of good writing.
• Have intriguing titles for your columns