ANNOUNCEMENT

Announcement is an important or official statement about something said, written, printed or molding to make other people known what has happened or something will happen.

Announcement stated publicly. It usually starts with an expression of gaining attention or salutation and sometimes ends with an expression of thanking (the oral’s announcement). It gives people information news. It is usually short so that people can remember easily what it is about. Announcement can finds by audio (radios), visual (newspapers), audio visual (television).

Announcement used simple present tense.

There are many kinds of announcement, such as graduation, wedding, birthday, death ( obituary ), to make a meeting, a competition, news a baby born, etc.

The announcement contents depend on the events and the announcer’s purpose. It can be commercial or non-commercial.

Announcement function are :

• Announce
• Communicate
• Information 

To make an announcement must keep the following points :

• The title / type of event
• Place
• Date / time
• Contact person / address 
  
  In the oral announcement, such as radio news and television news, newsreaders should pay attention to some elements. One of them is their tone. Therefore, the written form which the news-reader should use punctuation correctly and with care. The proper deployment of commas, semi-colons, dashes and full stops is a great help to newsreader, particularly when they are broadcasting something they haven’t had the chance to look at in advance.