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Column Writing 101

Effective column writing presents opinions and perspectives on current events and topics in an engaging manner. Columns are more personal than news articles and often use first and second person to directly address readers. They aim to inform, entertain, or influence readers by discussing issues and answering why and how questions. Columns have a clear structure including an attention-grabbing lead, supporting facts and analysis in the body, and a conclusion that restates the main points.

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Column Writing 101

Effective column writing presents opinions and perspectives on current events and topics in an engaging manner. Columns are more personal than news articles and often use first and second person to directly address readers. They aim to inform, entertain, or influence readers by discussing issues and answering why and how questions. Columns have a clear structure including an attention-grabbing lead, supporting facts and analysis in the body, and a conclusion that restates the main points.

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Effective

Column Writing
Presented by: PROMELO G. ASENJO PhD
COLUMN
source: University of Missouri/ Reviewed: March 2022
https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/cm360
• is NOT a news article, but IT IS A NEWS
• Generally answers WHY and HOW
• Often PERSONAL, using First & Second
Person (You & I)
• Often states an OPINION
• Said to be like writing an OPEN LETTER
CHARACTERISTICS of a Column
• MOST PERSONAL of all newspaper
writing
• Has very PERSONAL APPEAL, an
AUTHORITATIVE influence & very
USEFUL contribution to spreading news
• Article giving & opinions
OPINION/PERSPECTIVE from the
• High in Reader-interest for they
writer.
STIMULATE public discussion of the
• opinions of the Columnist is NOT
necessarily shared by the staff.
day’s affairs
• Approxiamtely 500-850 words
COLUMN
WRITING• Purpose (Why)
HOW DO YOU WRITE A
COLUMN?

• Audience (Whom)
• Content (What)
• Structure (How)
How to Write an
Effective Column
PURPOS AUDIENC CONTEN STRUCTUR
• Why are you writing?
• Whom are you • WhatTwill your TYPES OF COLUMNS:
• Is it to inform the community
of an event?
E E
trying to reach? column • E
Personal
• Does the editor or community • Question and answer
• Decide on your discuss?
want it? • New Ideas
• are entertaining, informing or audience. • How will you
educating?
• How-to-it pieces
• Do you seek an identity or discuss it?
exposure
• Explain the news

The Purpose of • Point how event will


affect or not affect the
Column readers
• Entertain, inform or
Writing influence readers
SOURCES of Materials
• Current news
• Observations
• Interviews
• Commendable reports
• Investigations
AUDIENCE
• Write in their language, at
their level, about things he
audience needs to know or
wants to know.
CONTENT
• Resembles an editorial in form BUT, in contrast
with the editorial’s impersonal and anonymous
approach, came personal and stand of the writers
own idea
• Remember, columns SHOULD be based on
FACTS & SHOULD BE ACCURATE.
• Names are crucial in personal columns.
STRUCTURE
• Column’s regular TITLE
• HEADLINE - try to (A) use some
ALLITERATION or anything WITTY or (B) use
of pun
• Kitang-kita (Money Matters)
• Kwento ng Kwenta (Silent session)
• SPEDtacular
• PROSTItution
• BY-LINE
STRUCTURE of a Column
• Lead/ Introduction (hook: clearly present the main point.)
A. SHOCKING STATISTICS
The Department of Education confirmed that public school
teachers' debt has reached P300billion. This is the accumulated value of
teachers' loan from GSIS amounting to P178 billion and Pag-Ibig Fund
with P120 billion excluding the loans from private lending institutions.
STRUCTURE of a Column
• Lead/ Introduction (hook: clearly present the main point.)

B. CONTROVERSIAL STATEMENT
Prostitution is evrywhere in Lucena City. What is more
shocking is that there are more males involve in this “trade” than the
females, ciy DSWD Office reported
STRUCTURE of a Column
• Lead/ Introduction (hook: clearly present the main point.)

C. RHETORICAL QUESTIONS
If we have forgiven the Japanese that easy, why can’t we
forgive Marcos too?
STRUCTURE of a Column
2. Body/Points, Proof and Analysis
2-5 supporting facts (each fact is on its own paragraph)
a. POINT - state of fact
b. PROOF - paraphrase or quote an external source/statement of same or
related incident
c. ANALYSIS- comment on fact and proof presented. Write about YOUR
OPINION on the facts you have included. Comment on each fact.
STRUCTURE of a Column
3. Conclusion

• conclude by creatively restating your main points


• finish with a statement linking to your lead (a call for action works
well)
When writing a column, DO:
1. Give the reader timely, helpful 2. Develop a structure and keep it. Write on
information a regular schedule.

3. Write SIMPLE and SHORT 4. In personal columns, use local names


sentences and paragraphs and places.

5. Let others speak of you by use 6. Learn the difference between a column
of qoutes and references. and a news story.
When writing a column, DON’T:
1. Use technical or complex words, 2. Talk in jargon or unfamiliar terms
UNLESS required; then explain
simply.
4. Include too much detail or material.
3. Talk abut one topic constantly. You should be stimulating interest, NOT
exhausting a subject.

5. Refer to yourself as a third person (this author, your reporter) or quote


yourself (Jimmy Jones said). Instead, use mine.
Huwag Tipirin ang Pagbangon
Ni Mark Lester Andrei Cruzet

Bilang bahagi ng rehabilitasyon ng Marawi City, naglaan ang


Department of Budget and Management (DBM) ng limang libong piso
ngayong taon. Malayong-malayo ito sa pahayag ni Marawi Mayor Majul
Usman Gandamra na nangangailanagn sila ng 90 bilyong piso. Kaugnay
nito, maling-mali na tila tinitipid ang pagbangon ng lungsod.
Kung sisipatin ang kalagayan ng Marawi matapos ang limang buwang
sagupaan sa pagitan ng Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) at Maute-
ISIS group, hindi maitatanggi na nawasak ang halos kabuuan ng siyudad.
Sa ganitong kalagayan, sadyang kulang na kulang ang halagang
ipinagkaloob ng DBM.
Malinaw na lahat ng aspeto ng pamumuhay ng mga taga-
Marawi ay nangangailangan ng rehabilitasyon. Kabilang na riyan
ang pagsasaayos ng mga nasirang kabahayan, mosque, paaralan
at iba pang gusali. Hindi rin dapat isantabi ang relief goods,
tulong pinansyal at pangkabuhayan ng mga apektadong
residente. Lubha rin silang nangangailangan ng matagalang
pagsasailalim sa ‘stress debriefing’

At ‘counselling’ lalo pa’t karamihan sa kanila ay dumaranas


ng matinding trauma particular ang mga bata.
Kataka-takang kakarampot lamang ang pondo ang ibinibigay ng
pamahalaan sa Marawi rehabilitation gayong maliwanag pa sasikat ng araw
kung gaano kalaki ang pangangailangan ng lungsod. Nakahahabag ang
kalagayan ng ating mga kababayan na tila nanlilimos ng awa sa mga lingcod-
bayan. Maihahalintulad natin ang pangyayaring ito sa pulubing nanlilimos sa
isang mayamang tao ngunit tanging sentimo lang ang ipinagkakaloob.
Gayunpaman, walang dudang Malaki ang halaga ng donsasyong
makakalap mula sa mga local na Non-Government Organization (NGO) at
banyagang bansa. Marahil ito ang rason kung bakit kampante ang gobyerno
kahit kakarampot lamang ang ibinigay nilang tulong. Magkaroon naman
sana ng kaunting kahihiyan na mas Malaki pa ang naitulong ng ibang mga
bansa sa ating kababayan kaysa sa mismong gobyerno natin.
Malaki rin ang posibilidad na maulit ang nangyari noong
panahon ng bagyong Yolanda kung saan ibinulsa ang ilang bahagi
ng pondo. Nakakapang-galaiti na katiting na nga lang ang tulong
ng pamahalaan sa Marawi ay posibleng manakaw pa. kung kaya,
nararapat tiyakin na mapupunta sa mga benepisyaryo ang lahat ng
pondo at hindi sa bulsa ng masisibang politico.

Sa kabilang banda, hindi lang naman sa gobyerno dapat iasa ang


tulong sa Marawi. Nararapat din tayong tumulong sa ating mga
kababayan, in-cash o in-kind donation man. Higit sa lahat,
ipagdasal natin ang agarang pagbangon ng mga kapatid nating
Muslim.
Sa huli, makabubuti kung kakalampagin ng Task Force
Bangon Marawi and DBM upang dagdagan ng sapat na halaga
ang pondo ng rehabilitasyon ng Marawi. Ang pagdaragdag ng
pondo ay hindi lamang dagdag tulong bagkus ay patunay rin ito
na sapat ang ating habag at malasakit sa muling pagtayo ng ating
mga kababayan.

Si Mark Lester Andrei Cruzet, tubong Imus Unida Christian School.


Siya ay limang taon ng kampeon sa kanyang rehiyon at dalawang beses
nang nanalo sa NSPC sa kategoryang pagsulat ng Editoryal.
POINTERS DISCOURSE
• PERSONAL is POLITICAL • The ability and power to
• Personal insights SHOULD BE connect seemingly unrelated
TESTED AGAINST FACTS matters.
• No such thing as “THIS IS MY ⚬ examples:
OPINION” ￭ Duterte and Hitler
• Even opinions SHOULD be based on ￭ Martial law and Hair
FACTS, NOT merely emotion Color Policy
• Column writing PROMOTES ￭ Heavy Traffic and Ants
DIVERSITY
Thank You!
WORKS CITED:
• Andrada Mykel, Ph.D. squeeze.ph.
• Rojas Xandra, slideshare.
• The coconut
• Philippine Daily Inquirer.
• Manila Standard.
• source: University of Missouri/ Reviewed: March 2022
(https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/cm360

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