Caption text part 2
hello readers, glad to be uploading again. How are you? I hope you are okay. so, this time my English assignment is about
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TIPS TO WRITE CAPTIONS
Summary:
1. Social Function
Describe or command on a picture, photograph, graph, chart
2.Text Structure
Can be:
- action/event/ activity
- people/thing that involved
- condition
3.Language Features
- Noun Phrase for a thing, a person, an animal, a location, etc. which is
focused on, with or without a, the, this, those, my, their, etc.
- Verb Phrase dealing picture/photograph/graph/chart
- spelling, punctuation, and handwriting
4. Tips to write caption:
• Do not begin with the words a, an, or the.
• Use present tense to describe action in a photo.
• Give readers information they cannot get from just looking at a photo.
• A caption should complete the photo. The reader should not have to look at the story, but should want to look at the story.
• Write captions so they go from specific to general or general to specific.
• Do not begin a caption with names.
• When identifying members of a group, write “from left,” not “from left to right.”
• “Above” and “pictured here” are unnecessary.
• Captions should not repeat information contained in the lead.
• Name people only if they are important to the picture.
Practise 1:
Look at the pictures below. Then match the caption on the boxes with the picture.
Write the caption beside each picture.
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A nurse takes a swab sample from a patient at the Tanah Abang district office in Central Jakarta on June 21. Swab tests, also called polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, use mucus samples taken from the nose or throat to detect COVID-19. (JP/P.J. Leo) |
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Wearing a hazmat suit, a member of a Transjakarta community holds up a sign with updated data on the number of COVID-19 cases in Jakarta to raise awareness on health protocols within the Harmoni bus shelter in Jakarta on July 17. (JP/Dhoni Setiawan) |
Part D
Practise:
Look at the pictures below. Write the caption beside each picture.
| tug of war competition at the Indonesian independence event which was held in the village of durian crumbs, (17/8/20**) followed by enthusiastic children |
Writing events in pictures ✔
Write down the participants involved ✔
Write down what you do ✔
Write down the atmosphere in picture ✔
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