Roy Peter
Clark
Special to the Digest
We call lots of things "stories" in American journalism, but very few of them are true narrative storytelling. Most journalistic accounts are reports, whose primary purpose is to pass along information to readers. Reports require certain writing strategies to help readers figure things out: the telling quote, the revealing statistic, the deep explanation, a piece of jargon translated for the general reader. Readers use the information in their roles as citizens, consumers, residents and parents.
- Tags:
- Finding the Narrator,
- Writing,
- Quoting Sources