Journalism is the act of writing about news related subjects for all mediums, print and non-print. It is also the complicated process of taking information and sifting through it, editing information, and giving it context.
48. Average sentence length in
words that fits an audience
reading skill.
Very easy -8 or less
Easy -11
Fairly easy -14 or less
Standard -17
Fairly difficult -21
Difficult -25
Very difficult -29 above
67. “Corazon Amurao
walked a dozen steps
from the witness stand
here today, pointed her
right hand at Richard
Franklin Speck, and
said, “This is the man.”
68. “There was absolute
silence in the courtroom.
Not a soul stirred as the
words rang out in a clear
girlish voice tinged with
the soft Spanish accent
of the tiny Filipino
nurse.”
69. “Her extended fingers
did not touch Speck, the
murderer of eight of her
classmates at the South
Chicago Community
hospital nursing school.
But in that dramatic
moment, they did not
waver.”
71. Four hours, Miss Amurao
re-counted the events of
July 13 which led to the
death of eight girls, two
of them Filipinos like
Corazon. At one point…
72. “Her voice broke. She
struggled to regain her
composure, but failed. Finally
she gave in to the tears that
wracked her small body and
flushed her face. She buried
her face in the handkerchief
and cried and cried, a silent
grief that was more sensed
than heard.”