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EDITORIA
L WRITING
BRIDGING EDUCATION
A BOX FOR PACQUIAO
PLUGGING THE LEAKS
EDITORIAL
 Soul of the newspaper
 Brain of the newspaper

 Opinion
NEWS VS EDITORIAL
 NEWS
Pito ang patay at siyam ang sugatan matapos sumabog ang
isang bomba sa isang mall sa Cagayan De Oro City kaninang umaga.

 EDITORIAL
Nakapanlulumong isipin na sa gitna ng ipinagmamalaki ni PNoy
na pag-modernisa sa AFP at PNP ay bigo pa rin ang mga ito na
pigilin at sugpuin ang pagbomba sa isang mall sa Cagayan de Oro
City na kumitil ng pitong katao at nag-iwan ng siyam na sugatan.
NEWS VS EDITORIAL
 NEWS
After winning the top spot in the Regional Science Quiz
Bee, Shaira Alanis Soriano is bound to Tagaytay City on
February 5 to battle with the best Science whiz kids in the
country

 EDITORIAL
The victory of Shaira Alanis Soriano in the Regional
Science Quiz Bee is one proof that Regional Science High
School is still the home of top Science quizzers in the region.
NEWS VS EDITORIAL
 NEWS
Upang hubugin ang kakayahan ng mga manunulat sa
pamamahayag, isinasagawa ngayon ng Luna National High
School and dalawang araw na Campus Journalism Workshop.

 EDITORIAL
Dagdag-kaalaman sa paaralang pampahayagan ang
isinasagawang Campus Journalism Workshop ngayon sa Luna
National High School. Hindi lamang nito pinaghuhusay ang
kasanayan ng mga kalahok kundi sinisiguro din nitong
mamayagpag ang mga ito sa pandibisyong komperensya.
STRUCTURE: PILLAR
STRUCTURE
INTRODUCTI
ON

BODY

CONCLUSION
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HOW TO
WRITE THE
TITLE?
EDITORIAL TITLES
 Green shield (National Greening
Program)
 Clarion Call (DSPC’13 theme on

transparent governance
 Right investment (SHS Program)

 Ending bullying (Anti-Bullying Law)

A word or a phrase. Preferably the issue
or the solution of the problem
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HOW TO WRITE
THE
INTRODUCTION?
News Peg (Issue) + + Link + Reaction
(Stand)
The Department of Education (DepEd) is
shifting its gears in the implementation of
the Senior High School (SHS) Program
and the government has fueled the
preparation by allocating the lion’s share
of next year’s budget to the department.
Such investment will truly pay off in
spades in the future.
News Peg (Issue) + + Link + Reaction
(Stand)
Bullying has been a silent menace that has
plagued many children for a very long
time, but with the Anti -Bullying Act now
signed into law by President Benigno
Aquino III, schools nationwide are now
empowered to combat bullying and are
given a clear picture on how to curb the
early onset of the culture of violence
News Peg (Issue) + + Link + Reaction
(Stand)
 The Department of Education’s K to 12

Enhanced Basic Education Curriculum

implemented this school year is one
concrete response to reverse the steady
decline of quality education in the
country and to achieve the government’s
goal of long-term educational reform and
sustainable economic growth.
By Mitzi Love C.
Reaction (Stand) + Link + News Peg
(Issue)
It was a clarion call and its sounding is
most timely. In the observance of press
conferences this year, the Department of
Education (DepEd) is tapping young writers
nationwide to strengthen the legal right of
the people to information.
By Jamaica Ramos
The Excelsior Associate Editor, Champion, DSPC 2013
BODY
 Arguments be arranged
according to the degree of
importance
 Include reaction in every

paragraph
BODY
 Background of the issue
 Presentation of the other side of the issue
 Presentation of 1st argument + facts +
interpretation
 Presentation of 2nd argument + facts+
interpretation
 Presentation of 3rd argument + facts +
interpretation
 Counterproposition (proposed solution)
 Argument 1 + proof +
interpretation

History tells us how the power of the press became an effective tool
towards bringing about change. From the reform movement during the
Spanish time to the third quarter storm when the Marcos regime silenced
the press and hid vital information to the people. But the voices of Ditto
Sarmiento of the Philippine Collegian and Eman Lacaba of the The Guidon
of the Ateneo de Manila University sounded the loudest echoe and
trooped student-activists to Edsa to oust the dictator. A proof that the power
of campus journalism knows no limit– it can shatter even the strongest.
 Argument 2 + testimony +
interpretation

Today, their influences still ripple among us, the new

generation of campus journalists but our role has
turned differently – to deliver information that
the people have the legal right to know.
Education Chief Leonor Magtolis Briones told
in a press statement that this task may be too
heavy for some, but for a journalist who lives
with his mandate in RA 7079 or the Campus
Journalism Act of 1991, it’s just as simple as full
Counterproposition
Creating a culture of transparency, as what
Secretary Briones told, is an easy task. Rather
than wasting many spaces in the campus paper for
school routine activities, a news story of an official
meeting and contract entered into by the school, an
editorial or commentary about research findings,
and a three-wide-five-inches deep article on school
publication’s financial statement, PTA expenditures,
and School MOOE and local funds expenses matter
more. This is our share in strengthening people’s
right to know – too simple, yet exercises the highest
STRENGTHENING THE
ARGUMENTS
 Statistics
 Expert testimonies

 Evidences

 Examples

 Analogies
ENDING
 Tie up the arguments
 End it with a punch
Summary+ tie up + strike
Deped is banking so much on
us in strengthening freedom of
information
and with the power of the pen, we
can simply do what is expected of
us - just write the history of a
nation anchored on the highest
level of honesty and transparency.
After all, we are the nation’s
Summary+ tie up + strike
The Anti -Bullying Law is more than
just words; it is a promise to every
Filipino child. It is a declaration
that we will not condone
harassment, nor will we be
bystanders in the presence of
intimidation. For so many
schoolchildren across the country,
the law is a lifeline. But it will
Summary+ tie up + strike
The SHS program is the government’s
bold step in reversing the deteriorating
trend of Philippine educational system
for the past years. With the biggest
allocation to be received by the
education department by next
year, the picture of quality
Philippine education is made
clearer. It only takes DepEd to
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Poverty is a weapon of mass

 sustainabl
e
antipovert
y
programs
First Place Editorial Writing English, NSPC Kalibo 2006
 Introduction
It contains the The heartbreaking news of
news peg and Mariannet Amper, a 12-year old girl
the reaction. from Maa, Davao City who, at first
reported, committed suicide for
The absence of
losing hope that her family could
a reaction to rise from wallowing in the quagmire
an issue makes of poverty is a glaring proof that much
the article not has to be done beyond what this
an editorial but economic growth our government is
just an essay. drumbeating now.
 Body Fact 1
 It presents A study of the International
the factual Food Policy Research Institute
details (IFFRI) showed that 11 million
about the Filipinos are among the one
issue, which billion people in the world
include the
opinion or
living on less than one dollar a
principle of day, a state which the United
the Nations define as extreme
newspaper. poverty.
Body
Interpretation
Interpretation Mariannet family’s sad plight
should be mirrors the real scenario of
based on the the vast majority of the
statistics or Filipino people. The
facts economic boom of our
presented to country today maybe
substantiate
statistically true but it is
one’s stand on
hardly felt by those of the
a particular
issue. lower bracket of our society.
 Body Other side of the coin

State the Good that those who are in the

godly seats of the government are not
other side passing the blame of the miserable fate
of the issue of our countrymen to anybody, but
to observe themselves. It gives us the glimmer of
balance hope that our local and national officials
will stop their shameful bickering and
and to politicking and would focus not only on
avoid poverty alleviation but on long term
biases interventions to improve the quality of
life of their constituents.
 Body Fact # 2 and Arguments
Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey
Anchor your showed that self-rated poverty had been
opinion on relatively low range from 47 to 53
the facts percent since September 2006, down by
6 percent from December 2005 to June
presented
2006. This is an indication that our
in order to economy is in the right direction. But
influence sad to say, the benefits of our economy
public is not like the sting of “siling labuyo”
that could be easily felt by everybody
opinion. eating it. That is why there is a need to
fast track the implementation of these
 Body Fact # 3 and Arguments

Substantiat On top for the school program,

the barangay terminal,
e your “tindahan ng bayan”, “botika ng
stand with barangay” and others, the
facts to concerned government agencies
should give more focus on
convince
creating more jobs and
your increasing food production such
readers as poultry, livestock,
Conclusion
Unless these antipoverty
It presents a
programs are sustainable,
solution, a delivered efficiently and
thought- effectively and not designed for
provoking self-enrichment and “papogi”
question, points by many of our power
forecast, and media-hungry “trapos”
and possible (traditional politicians) for the
next election that we can truly
effects.
say there is hope for these 11