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Write a report of about 300 words for a local newspaper on a blood donation camp organised in your locality.
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Answer
A report of about 300 words with a headline, a by-line, and paragraphs covering what happened, where and when, who organised and attended it, the outcome, and a closing quotation or comment, in the third person and the past tense.
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Explanation
A newspaper report puts the most important information in the first paragraph, which is the inverted pyramid structure.
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