MC 111: ELEMENTS OF JOURNALISTIC STYLE PAST QUESTION
UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA
FACULTY OF ARTS, DEPARTMENT OF MASS COMMUNICATION
2010/2011 SESSION
MC 111 ELEMENTS OF JOURNALISTIC STYLE
Instructions: answer question 1 and any other two questions (i.e. three questions in all)
1. Point out the sexist connotations in the popular use of the following terms:
- Adonis and nymphet
- Eligible bachelor and spinster
- Witch and wizard
- Call boy and call girl
- Man’s world
- Bachelor and Master of Arts,
- Good husbandry
- Fair sex
- Weaker sex
- Officers and men.
2. Explain the meaning of “Sob sister roles” and “sinecures” in relation to media portrayal and placement of women.
3. identify five guidelines that can help a writer exhibit fair and equal treatment of both genders in his/her work.
4. Add punctuation marks to this passage
If ever a contest is held to pick the most consistent truants in UNN Rubena and Diara Second year students of Mass Communication would be the undisputed winners Why do I say so These bomb shells as they call themselves don’t know the first thing about being undergraduates A rundown of their activities will convince you they hardly attend lectures they don’t submit assignments on schedule and last semester they were absent in half their exams
For friends, they keep company with thugs from God’s own stage Abia who no surprisingly dropped out of this university several years ago Afterall birds of a feather they say flock together What a shame
5. Distinguish between the following punctuation marks, using, at least, one sentence to illustrate the proper use of each.
6. Apostrophe and inverted comma ii. colon and semi-colon iii. dash and hyphen
7. Outline, with examples, ten items that you would be expected to capitalize on while writing
