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3. Pollution May Be
Irreversible!!
Alert!!!

4. An Editorial from
manila Bulletin, 1990

6. What is an Editorial?

8. • An editorial is an opinion
piece written by the senior
editorial staff or publisher
of a newspaper or magazine.
Editorials are usually
unsigned and may be
supposed to reflect the
opinion of the present time.

9.  Keep the topic relevant. Finding
editorial topics and getting ideas can
be among the largest challenges
facing any writer, but with editorials
the process is often a bit easier than
for other types of writing.

10.  Use personal opinion. The
main difference between an
editorial and a news story is that
there is room to try to persuade
readers with your personal
opinion.

11.  Feel free to use emotion, but
in a limited manner. An editorial
written out of anger or another
strong emotion is not going to
hold the persuasive power of a
good article.

12.  Use persuasive
language. Persuasive
writing is one of the key
elements of a good
editorial

13.  Get your facts straight.
While there is a limited
protection afforded by opinion
pieces, there is still a chance
of your piece being construed
as libel.

14.  Try to be entertaining.
Keeping all of the above steps
of clarity, relevance and fact-
checking in mind, there is still
room to write in an
entertaining manner.

15. An Editorial from
manila Bulletin, 1990

16.  Inmany industrialized
cities, you can drink the water
but not breathe the air. In
Manila, tap water is not safe to
drink and the air may be unfit
for human inhalation.

17.  Rachel Garson warned, “The
contamination of
air, earth, rivers, and sea… is
for the most part
irrevocable.” Let us not get to
this point.

18.  WithinManila, we still see
smoke stacks fouling the air
of the entire metropolis. And
Metro Manila is now under a
canopy of polluted air.

19.  Men will learn either to live in
harmony with nature or
become extinct for this planet
will be unfit for human
habitation.

20.  Pollution
may be the issue that
can unite all Filipinos. If we can
get together on one issue, then
we can be one in solving others
and eventually, all national
problems.

21.  Pollution
has killed more
people than all the typhoons
and earthquakes combined.
Typhoons come and go.
Earthquakes are rare…

22. “But pollution is with us 365
days a year.”
-Manila Bulletin, Sept. 10, 1990

23. Prepared by: Ganimid D.
Alvarez, Jr.

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