It was a great opportunity for the
students of GGIS to learn valuable points of report writing from the wonderful
staff of NIE pune on 28th November 2013. Medha Srivastava of class
12th and Tanya Jaiswal of class 11th attended the
workshop organised by The Times Of India – ‘The Times NIE Newsmakers Meet’. It
highlighted the art of writing a Report on topics like Crime, Sports, Education
etc. Miss Priyanka from the TOI staff started with the introduction of report
writing whose main feature and requirement is the 4 ‘W’ and 1 ‘H’. Then a
discussion started about the positive features of the NIE newspaper which has
most precise and apt information for school students providing them with every
possible information about the world. She then described the salient features
of the newspaper like 60-40 ratio of news and advertisement in the paper.
Students were also introduced to another Edition called ‘Rio + 21’ the theme
being conserving water. Then the students were given a sheet to write a report
on any unique activity being organised in their respective schools or any
achievements made in their schools along with four questions of general
knowledge. After an hour of interesting session, Annie Thomas, editor of NIE
times taught the students about skill of writing a news report by giving an
example of report on German Bakery blast that shocked the peaceful city of pune
in February 2010. She made the students write the report disintegrated into 5
main sub headings like what had
happened, where the incident took
place, when the explosion took
place, who was behind the attack and
how it took place. After the Report,
the Editor explained the students about the inverted pyramid feature of the
report writing which describes the pattern of writing a report. The uppermost
level of pyramid constitutes the most important information that includes ‘W’s
and ‘H’, the second level includes body of the story and the last level is the
tail of report or in other words conclusion of the report. At the end of the
workshop, the students were given snacks and a small trophy as a token of
participation. This seminar definitely helped all the students to improve their
report writing skills.
