Social Function / Purpose
To inform readers, listeners or viewers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important?
Generic Structure:
- Newsworthy Event(s): recounts the event in summary form
- Background Events: elaborate what happened, to whom, in what circumstances.
- Sources: comments by participants in, witnesses to and authority’s expert on the event.
- Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline.
- Use of Action Verbs to retell the event.
- Use of Saying Verbs in Sources stage.
- Use of conjunction of cause and effect.
Example of News Item Text
Another migrant worker dies of alleged torture in Malaysia
An Indonesian migrant worker Munti Binti
Bani has died on Monday after being hospitalized for several days due to
alleged torture by her employees in Selangor, Malaysia.
Antara state news agency has
reported that Munti had been treated at Tengku Ampuan Rahimah hospital
since last Tuesday and died on Monday at 10 a.m, local time.
“We express our deep condolences as there
is yet another worker who was tortured and passed away at the
hospital,” Indonesia’s Ambassador for Malaysia, Da’i Bachtiar said in
Kuala Lumpur on Monday.
Munti’s body will be sent tomorrow to her
hometown in Pondok Jeruk Barat village of Jombang, East Java after
undergoing autopsy at the hospital.
“The Embassy will arrange for all compensation, including insurance, she deserves to receive,” Da’i said.
He added that Munti’s employees Vanitha
and Murugan had been detained and were undergoing questioning at the
local police office.
“We hope the police can uphold justice and punish them should they be proven to be involved in the case,” he said.
The Text Taken from: http://www.thejakartapost.com
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