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An article is a written work published in a print or electronic medium. It may be for the purpose of propagating news, research results, academic analysis, or debate.

A news article can include accounts of eyewitnesses to the happening event. It can contain photographs, accounts, statistics, graphs, recollections, interviews, polls, debates on the topic, etc. Headlines can be used to focus the reader's attention on a particular (or main) part of the article. The writer can also give facts and detailed information following answers to general questions like who, what, when, where, why and how.

Elements of a news article:

• A headline is text above a newspaper article, indicating its topic.
• A subordinate headline, known as a subhead, is a standard feature of news texts.
• A byline gives the name and often the position of the writer, along with the date.
• The objective of the lead (sometimes spelled lede to distinguish it from the soft metal) sentence is to capture the attention of the reader and summarize the main ideas of the story.
• For the news story, details and elaboration are evident in the body or running text of the news story and flow smoothly from the lead.
• The conclusion, or in news terms, “the shirttail”, is a brief addendum at the end of a news article that sums up everything within the article.
• Authorship

Other types of articles:

• Academic paper - an article published in an academic journal.
• Blog - some blog articles are like magazine or newspaper articles; others are written more like entries in a personal journal.
• Encyclopedia article - in an encyclopedia or other reference work, an article is a primary division of content.
• Essay some overlap with academic paper.
• Marketing article - an often thin piece of content which is designed to draw the reader to a commercial website or product.
• Portrait - a portrait of a person (article).
• Scientific paper - an article published in a scientific journal.
• Spoken article - an article produced in the form of an audio recording, also referred to as a podcast. A podcast is an episodic series of spoken word digital audio files that a user can download to a personal device for easy listening.

In grammar, articles are part of a broader category called determiners [限定词]. "a", "the", "some", "this", "each", "my" etc are determiners. "the" is called the definite article; "a" and "an" are called the indefinite article.

六级/考研单词: electron, medium, propagate, graph, poll, headline, subordinate, seldom, summary, elaborate, journal, blog, encyclopedia, overlap, website, audio, podcast, episode, digit, download, tentative, indefinite