This document discusses news item texts. It defines a news item text as informing readers about newsworthy or important events of the day. The purpose is to inform about these current events. A news item text generally has the following generic structure: a recounting of the newsworthy event, background information, and sources which include comments from people involved in or knowledgeable about the event. Language features include focusing on circumstances using action verbs and material processes, and using short, telegraphic information in headlines. An example news item text is provided to illustrate these parts of the generic structure and language features.

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News Items Text
Social Function
Generic structure
Language Features

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Definition of News Item Text
News items is a text which informs readers
about events of the day. The events are
considered newsworthy or important.

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Purpose/ Social Function
of News Item Text
To inform readers, listeners or viewers
about events of the day which are
considered newsworthy or important .

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Generic structure
• Newsworthy event (recounts the events
in summary form)
• Background event
• Sources (comments by participant in,
witnesses to and authorities expert on
the event)

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Language Features of News Items
• Focusing on circumstances
• Using material process
• Short, telegraphic information about
story captured in headline
• Use action verb

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Untuk lebih jelasnya silakan anda pahami contoh dari identifikasi News Item Text berikut !
Generic
Structure
Teks News Itemss
Newsworthy
events
Moscow – A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear
catastrophe, which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town.
Background
Events
Yelena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people who witnessed the
explosion of a nuclear submarine at the naval base of shkotovo – 22 near
Vladivostock.
Sumber
Informasi
The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl disaster, spread
radioactive fall-out over the base and nearby town, but was covered up by officials
of the Soviet Union. Residents were told the explosion in the reactor of the Victor-
class submarine during a refit had been a „thermal‟ and not a nuclear explosion.
And those involved in the clean up operation to remove more than 600 tones of
contaminated material were sworn to secrecy.
Sources A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history
of the Soviet Navy.