Blog Post Learning Logs Meeting 6

 

About me:

                   Hello friends, My name is Mewpov. I was born in Tangerang . I am a student of Muhammadiyah University of Tangerang and I majored in English Education. I'm in semester 6 right now. I live in Moch Toha street Pasar Baru Tangerang. I come from a small family of 4 members in one family. I have a sister and I am the youngest in the family. My hobby is listening to music cause I think my voice is very sweet. I listen to a lot of songs from western and kpop. I'm not fixated on genres, I listen to all genres of music. My daily life is a student of the faculty of education. Right now I'm also helping to teach a few children in my place. The reason that I create this blog is to share some learning logs in journalism courses. If you want to contact me you can visit my Instagram on @meyl*****.

My opinion of news writing and as a citizen journalist

                   As citizen journalists, we can learn to use websites such as blogs, podcasts as well as social media, and YouTube to disseminate information. Citizen journalism can use the platform to write news writing. Using platforms such as bloggers can help citizen journalism in writing news writing. Blogger can be used easily with various features in it such as there is a comment feature that makes it easier for readers to provide feedback to the author. Make it easier for citizen journalism to reach their news writing access to a larger readership. Create news writing by collecting credible, accurate, and objective information. News writing is based on facts without bias. For the information shown to be accountable, as a citizen journalism must conduct news gathering first before writing news writing. News gatherings can be done such as conducting interviews and background research. Write news that becomes informative and valuable to the readers. Make good use of existing platforms in the stage of improving writing skills.

 

My language learning logs

Student Pseudonym Name: mewpov 

Date: 27 October 2023

Session Material: Meeting 6

Number of the meeting tasks	Topic of the meeting	Sources	Vocabulary usage (New vocabulary words or phrases encounteres during the session material: The word, its definition, part of speech, and an example sentence)	Example taken from the text	Grammar
Meeting 6 Task	Associated Press style and APA Style references: Common types examples	Lecturer’s Note	Abbreviations:singkatan (noun)	Some widely known abbreviations are required in certain situations, while others are acceptable but not required in some contexts.	Active voice Present tense
			Substitute: pengganti (noun)	If the age is used as an adjective or as a substitute for a noun, then it should be hyphenated.	Active voice Present tense
			Apostrophe: apostrof (noun)	Use the letter s but not an apostrophe after the figures when expressing decades or centuries.	Active voice Present tense
			Abbreviate: menyingkat (verb)	Capitalize days of the week, but do not abbreviate.	Active voice Present tense
			Differentiate: membedakan (verb)	Unless they are part of a direct quotation or are needed to differentiate between people who have the same last name.	Active voice Present tense

Reflection

            Previously, I questioned how to start writing good news starting from knowing associated press style and APA Style references. Because I do not yet know about this knowledge, I will now need to read more about this topic because it is a useful topic for me. Having learned this knowledge I now know that associated press style and APA style references become an important start of a news story. I have developed my knowledge of this material that AP style provides consistent guidelines for such publications in terms of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and language usage. It aims to maintain consistency, clarity, accuracy, and brevity while avoiding stereotypes and offensive language. I have developed my understanding of this knowledge regarding common style guidelines relating to associated press style and APA style. This knowledge is important to me in the workplace because it can train writing skills, the ability to write according to the structure, and how to make our writing attract readers interest.

Summary

            According to the lecturer’s explanation and lecture note in their article titled “Associated Press style and APA Style references: Common types examples,”  it was stated the associated press style provides guidelines for news writing in newspapers, magazines, and public relations offices across the United States. It aims to maintain consistency, clarity, accuracy, and brevity while avoiding stereotypes and offensive language. The Associated Press Stylebook provides an A-Z guide to issues such as capitalization, abbreviation, punctuation, spelling, numerals, and other language usage. Abbreviations and acronyms are required in certain situations, while others are acceptable but not required in some contexts. Addresses should always use figures, abbreviate Ave., Blvd., and St., and spell out other words. Ages should use figures, and apostrophes should be avoided when describing an age range. Quotations should be used around the titles of books, songs, television shows, computer games, poems, lectures, speeches, and works of art. However, they should not be used around the names of magazines, newspapers, the Bible, or books that are catalogs of reference materials. In summary, the AP style provides consistent guidelines for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and language usage in newspapers and mass media.