about Book

This PDF workbook was designed with the purpose of highly enhancing the learners' capabilities in terms of analyzing and summarizing news clippings. It offers a systematic approach that will effectively pull out the best and personal insights into current events to make it easy to pull out the key information within the news article and further articulate the summary of the news articles. In essence, the overall conception of this workbook very well laces clear, comprehensive explanations with a great mixture of practical exercises thus making this indispensable to any student looking to develop their media literacy and critical thinking skills to the highest levels.

The workbook has been structured and categorized, with intention, into two main sections.

Explanations : This section introduces the basic procedures for analyzing news clippings, including how to identify such elements as headlines, lead sentences, main points, and supporting details. It gives students guidance about the relevance and reliability of sources of news, as well as the parts of a news article.

Workbook Exercises: The overall goal of the workbook is to involve the students in clipping exercises on news, which is essential for the development of many skills. For this purpose, a set of news articles or extracts is created on various topics, and the task of the students is to summarize the most important points extracted from those documents. Alongside summarizing, the students should stress key facts and critical information and also answer a set of questions directly connected with articles presented. So this exercised activity very carefully composed is especially aimed at developing reading comprehension, critical analysis, and an effective summary of all kinds of new stories so that students may master material more consciously. This work is designed for those students and teachers of this topic interested in practicing the skills of reading and making sense of news. As such, it might be found useful either inside or outside the classroom as a guide to developing media literacy and skills for news analysis.