The Mark of A True Journalist

A doctor's professionalism is characterized by his success or failure in performing a surgery and how reliable the prescriptions he gives his patients are. On the other hand, a politician's professionalism can be seen in interviews and how he handles the press with their many accusations against them. For a journalist, good grammar is the key to their professionalism.

A journalist's job is to tell stories to the people, but it is not in the messages and stories that he tells where his mastery of the profession is seen. It is seen in the words and symbols that they uses in order to deliver that message.

It is whether or not they know whent to put a ',' before or after the independent clause that starts with an 'and', ot the simple spelling of 'you're' and 'your'. It is very important to know how to use grammar correctly because that is where the professionalism of a journalist shines through.

Since the start of elementary school, students have been taught the different figures of speech. It starts with the simple nouns and its kinds. The pronouns, verbs and adjectives are next to help us construct our sentences. With sentence writing comes the proper capitalization and use of punctuation marks. It is a cycle of figures of speech until the student reaches high school. By the time they graduate, a student must be equipped with the right grammar to help them get by essays and literary analyses.

As it has been shown, all students are eqquiped with the basics, and so it can be said that everyone has been taught proper grammar. However  to the handful that are called to become journalists, the need to develop their grammar a step higher is necessary.

Every morning, millions of people open their newspapers to read nothing but proper news. To not know how to use grammar correctly would be a big mistake not onlu for you but also for the company you work for. To produce work that is not examplary will be embarassing for you. The medium of a journalist is through the words that are printed on the newspaper for the whole country to read.

Having grammar that is above the mediocore status is the standard, and it will show the true profesionalism of a journalist. It was everybody expects to see as they open the pages of Manila Bulletin, the Philippine Star and the Philippine Daily Inquirer.