Purpose text of News Item :

To inform the reader or listener. Clear objectives News Item is to inform the news to the readers or listeners . Purpose you read the news or not to obtain information from sources that clearly.

The generic structure of news item :

Correspondence

Newsworthy events :

Recounts the event in summary form

Background events :

Elaborate what happened, to whom, in what circumstances.

Linguistic features :

 Action Verbs.

 Verbal Verbs.

 Mental Verbs.

 Temporal Circumstances.

 Spatial Circumstances.

 Specific Participants.

Structure of the text consist of three parts :

 Core write news or events that are considered important

 Write the background or the cause of the event

 Write a news source, usually contains about quotes from the usual resource witness, or senior official associated with the event.

To distinguish the type of news item text and other text that is easy for news item has a unique feature that is preceded by a city or place. Another characteristic that is the excerpt from the resource persons.