Comparacion De Ariculos En Ingles

Advance Writing Skills
Writing Project

Introduction
There are newspaper articles that report on global issues such as economics or politics; these articles discusses about a certain situation in a country or worldwide. Moreover there are writings that deals with particular stories, one fact that has happened and for some reason has been highlighted by different communication media.
Ihave chosen a Social Issue that has crossed borders. The disappearances are ongoing today around the world.
In Spain there are even web pages to report new cases of disappearances. In some cases the specific person appears, but not always alive.
Overview
This article is based on real events.
On February 26 Austin Taylor Bice, California exchange student aged 22, disappears at night, returninghome from a nightclub in Madrid.

Bice´s family provided help with a team of California investigators. Furthermore the disappearance was announced through posters by Austin friends .

Ten days later its body was found by the police in the River Manzanares, Madrid, near the place where he was last seen.

The signs of death have not been notified by the coroner yet. However officials said thestudent had no marks of violence on the body.

Choice of articles and sources

The first article have been taken from CNN (Cable News Network). Tuesday, 8 March 2011, Al Goodman, Police find body of U.S. student missing in Spain. www.cnn.com

The second one have been taken from FOX NEWS. Tuesday, 8 March 2011. Associated Press, Missing US student found dead in Madrid river. www.foxnews.comI have chosen CNN for the reason that it is the most reliable website. Since its launch CNN has been one of the best information channels, the first website providing all kinds of news 24 hours, including international news.
My second choice was FOX News because it has prestige and also provides news from all over the world.

Analyze and summarize articles
Summary

FOX
This textredacts the death of an American exchange student in Madrid named Austin Bice. The body was pulled out from a river, about 500 meters away from the night club where he was last seen, 10 days after he disappeared, yet had no sign of violence. The cause of the death is not known yet; although it is said by interviewed known relatives that he looked unwell the night before he went out. Bice is described,by the university’s exchange department, as a popular young man with lots of friends. To find out the facts of his death an autopsy will be carried out on Tuesday.
CNN
This text deals with the apparition of the body of Austin Taylor Bice an American student 22 years old who was recently carrying out his studies in the university Carlos III, in Madrid.
The body was found in the Rio Manzanares bythe Spanish police 10 days after his disappearance. It was found near the nightclub where Bice was last seen. As the police said, there was no indication of violence or theft; therefore an autopsy will be made to establish the facts of its death.
His family and other members supported the investigation and even hired a California investigation service making them travel all the way to Madrid tomake a more professional research.
Analyze
The headlines chosen of Police find body of U.S. student missing in Spain are the words that the writer of CNN wrote. In contrast FOX reporter chose Spain: Missing US student found dead in Madrid.
The two headlines were written to attract the reader attention. For this reason, the writers omitted articles like "a"(find a body in) or “the” (the Police)in CNN news.
Additionally the writer changes the verb forms. Using the simple present to refer that the history is happening right now (find), or the gerund (missing) inn CNN. On the contrary the writer of Fox uses the participle and omitted auxiliary verbs to shorten the sentence.
The headlines are very objective. However the CNN writer avoids to write “the student was found dead” by...