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    The document provides information about writing effective photo captions, including: - Captions should give basic information to understand the photo in a clear, accurate, and concise manner. - There are different types of captions such as identification bars, cutlines, and summaries that include varying levels of details about who, what, when, where, and why. - Professional captions should include identification of people, place, and date in the first sentence and relevant details in the second sentence to help readers understand the photo.

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    The document provides information about writing effective photo captions, including: - Captions should give basic information to understand the photo in a clear, accurate, and concise manner. - There are different types of captions such as identification bars, cutlines, and summaries that include varying levels of details about who, what, when, where, and why. - Professional captions should include identification of people, place, and date in the first sentence and relevant details in the second sentence to help readers understand the photo.

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    The document provides information about writing effective photo captions, including: - Captions should give basic information to understand the photo in a clear, accurate, and concise manner. - There are different types of captions such as identification bars, cutlines, and summaries that include varying levels of details about who, what, when, where, and why. - Professional captions should include identification of people, place, and date in the first sentence and relevant details in the second sentence to help readers understand the photo.

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    CAPTION

    Uploaded by

    Syifa Kamilah
    The document provides information about writing effective photo captions, including: - Captions should give basic information to understand the photo in a clear, accurate, and concise manner. - There are different types of captions such as identification bars, cutlines, and summaries that include varying levels of details about who, what, when, where, and why. - Professional captions should include identification of people, place, and date in the first sentence and relevant details in the second sentence to help readers understand the photo.

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    CAPTION

    A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words

    Caption

    Writing a
    Grammar
    Caption

    Content Rules
     A photo caption gives readers basic
    information to understand a photograph.
     It should be clear, accurate, and complete.
     It is often called as a cutline, but shorter with
    only titles or sentences of one-line length.
    Writing a Caption

    Make a Give Write a


    relevant
    title for information photo
    the about the credit.
    photo. photo.
    KINDS OF CAPTION
    There are some kinds of captions, (quoted from  brainly):
    1. Identification bar: This caption only mentions who is in the picture.

    2. Cutline: This caption mentions who is in the picture and what she/he does.

    3. Summary: It consists of who the person is, what she/he does, the time, the place
    and the reason of doing that. (who, what, when, where and why)

    4. Expanded: This caption is more complete than Summary. It consists of how and
    quotation.

    5. Group identification: This caption is the same as Identification bar but there are
    more than one persons in the caption.

    6. Quote: It consists of someone’s saying related to the picture in the caption.


     
     
    CONTENT OF PHOTO CAPTIONS

    Professional standard photo captions should include:

     the identification of the people, the place of the event, and the date
    when the photograph was taken in the first sentence; and

     relevant information in the next sentence to help readers understand


    the picture.
    RULES OF WRITING CAPTIONS
    When you write a photo caption, there are some rules that you have to follow:

     Supply specific information which answer 5WH-questions.

     Use the present tense to describe action in the photo.

     Write captions in a complete sentence—mostly a declarative sentence.

     Clearly indentify the people and location that appear in the photo.

     For photograph of more than one person, identify from left to right. In case of large
    groups, identify only the notable people.

     Never include personal feelings and descriptive terms which interpret them such as
    beautiful, scary, sad, lovely.
    GRAMMAR IN ACTION
    PUNCTUATION

     Captions normally begin with a capital letter.


     Captions should not be in italics, unless that also occurs in the main story.
     All sentences and any sentence fragments in that caption should end with a
    period.
    TASK 1
    1. Please give the type of the captions above.
    2. Please find your own examples of the types of captions.
    Do this in your exercise books. We will discuss them next week.

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