An article or piece is a written work published in a print or electronic medium, for the propagation of news, research results, academic analysis or debate.
15-418: An editorial , or leading article (UK) or leader (UK), is an article or any other written document, often unsigned, written by the senior editorial people or publisher of a newspaper or magazine , that expresses the author(s)'s opinion about a particular topic or issue. Australian and major United States newspapers, such as The New York Times and The Boston Globe , often classify editorials under
30-457: A screen instead of printing them (thus saving paper and the space required to store the printed copies). However, using electronic documents for the final presentation instead of paper has created the problem of multiple incompatible file formats . Even plain text computer files are not free from this problem—e.g. under MS-DOS , most programs could not work correctly with UNIX -style text files (see newline ), and for non-English speakers,
45-483: Is a document that can be sent in non-physical means, such as telex , email , and the internet . Originally, any computer data were considered as something internal—the final data output was always on paper. However, the development of computer networks has made it so that in most cases it is much more convenient to distribute electronic documents than printed ones. The improvements in electronic visual display technologies made it possible to view documents on
60-419: Is an important ingredient for newspaper articles, the immediacy of a deadline environment means that copy editing occasionally takes the form of deleting everything past an arbitrary point in the story corresponding to the dictates of available space on a page. Therefore, newspaper reporters are trained to write in inverted pyramid style, with all the most important information in the first paragraph or two. If
75-559: Is called the op-ed page and frequently contains opinion pieces (hence the name think pieces ) by writers not directly affiliated with the publication. However, a newspaper may choose to publish an editorial on the front page. In the English-language press, this occurs rarely and only on topics considered especially important; it is more common, however, in some European countries such as Denmark , Spain , Italy , and France . Many newspapers publish their editorials without
90-473: The 21st century they have also become common as online versions of articles that also appear in printed journals. The practice of publishing of an electronic version of an article before it later appears in print is sometimes called epub ahead of print (particularly in PubMed ), ahead of print ( AOP ), article in press or article-in-press ( AIP ), or advanced online publication ( AOP ) (for example, in
105-1386: The VoR then makes reference to the erratum or corrigendum for clarity's sake. The other class of changes is that if an author in the byline has had a legal name change since the VoR was published, the byline of the electronic VoR may be updated to show their current name, depending on each publisher's stated policy. The term electronic articles can also be used for the electronic versions of less formal publications, such as online archives, working paper archives from universities, government agencies, private and public think tanks and institutes and private websites. In many academic areas, specialized bibliographic databases are available to find their online content. Most commercial sites are subscription -based or sell pay-per-view access. Many universities subscribe to electronic journals to provide access to their students and faculty, sometimes other people. An increasing number of journals are now available with open access, requiring no subscription. Most working paper archives and articles on personal homepages are free, as are collections in institutional repositories and subject repositories . The most common formats of transmission are HTML , PDF and, in specialized fields like mathematics and physics, TeX and PostScript . Electronic document An electronic document
120-417: The context of CrossRef ). The version of record (VoR) represents the definitive form of the article. Electronic VoRs remain largely stable, although a few types of changes may be made: most importantly, errors in the VoR, whose corrections are announced by errata or corrigenda , are often corrected within an electronic VoR itself, so that readers of the VoR will not be unnecessarily confused or misled, and
135-561: The field of fashion publishing , the term is often used to refer to photo -editorials – features with often full-page photographs on a particular theme, designer, model or other single topic, with or (as in a photo-essay ) without accompanying text. Article (publishing) A news article discusses current or recent news of either general interest (i.e. daily newspapers ) or of a specific topic (i.e. political or trade news magazines , club newsletters or technology news websites). A news article can include accounts of eyewitnesses to
150-466: The happening event. It can contain photographs, accounts, statistics, graphs, recollections, interviews, polls, debates on the topic, etc. Headlines can be used to focus the reader's attention on a particular (or main) part of the article. The writer can also give facts and detailed information following answers to general questions like who, what, when, where, why and how . Quoted references can also be helpful. References to people can also be made through
165-422: The heading " opinion ". Illustrated editorials may appear in the form of editorial cartoons . Typically, a newspaper's editorial board evaluates which issues are important for their readership to know the newspaper's opinion on. Editorials are typically published on a dedicated page, called the editorial page, which often features letters to the editor from members of the public; the page opposite this page
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#1732779525725180-556: The less vital details are pushed toward the end of the story, then the potentially destructive impact of draconian copy editing will be minimized. Types of news articles include: Electronic articles are articles in scholarly journals or magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission. They are a specialized form of electronic document , with a specialized content, purpose, format, metadata and availability – they consist of individual articles from scholarly journals or magazines (and now sometimes popular magazines), they have
195-412: The name of the leader writer. Tom Clark, leader-writer for The Guardian , says that it ensures readers discuss the issue at hand rather than the author. On the other hand, an editorial does reflect the position of a newspaper and the head of the newspaper, the editor, is known by name. Whilst the editor will often not write the editorial themselves, they maintain oversight and retain responsibility. In
210-537: The purpose of providing material for academic research and study, they are formatted approximately like printed journal articles, the metadata is entered into specialized databases, such as the Directory of Open Access Journals as well as the databases for the discipline, and they are predominantly available through academic libraries and special libraries , generally at a fixed charge. Electronic articles can be found in online -only journals (par excellence), but in
225-399: The written accounts of interviews and debates confirming the factuality of the writer's information and the reliability of his source. The writer can use redirection to ensure that the reader keeps reading the article and to draw her attention to other articles. For example, phrases like "Continued on page 3" redirect the reader to a page where the article is continued. While a good conclusion
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