How do broadcast stories and print stories differ in terms of structure?

What will be an ideal response?


Broadcast writing tends to follow less of an inverted-pyramid structure than print or Web writing, primarily because of the way in which audience members consume the content. Audience members who are told stories are used to chronological stories instead of those written in descending order of importance. It also tends to take on a “circle” approach, in which the content is provided to the viewers in a way that alerts them to important content, grabs their attention with the material, and then brings the story full circle at the end.

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After a year of friendship, Parker told her friend Stella her most closely-held secret, one she had shared with very few people in her life. Parker and Stella's relationship has reached the _______ stage.

  a.  exploratory-affective   b.  affective   c.  stable   d.  depenetration

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If the standard deviation is 0, what percentage of scores falls within one standard deviation of the mean?

a. 68% b. 95% c. 50% d. 100%

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 Which mode of delivery discourages audience analysis and detailed preparation? 

A. Memorized B. Manuscript C. Impromptu D. Extemporaneous

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All of the following are true statements about transparencies EXCEPT

A) The speaker has to turn her back to the audience to use them. B) You can add immediacy to your presentation by writing on the transparency while you are showing it. C) If you are running out of time, you can eliminate one of your transparencies. D) You can add features by stacking transparencies. E) Transparencies show up well in light-flooded rooms.

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