3.4.

CAPTION
MEANING
SOCIAL FUNCTION
GENERIC STRUCTURE
LANGUAGE FEATURES
EXAMPLE

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MEANING
Caption text is brief description,
heading, or title that identifier or
introduces a document, graphic,
photograph, or table.

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 FUNCTION
The Function of caption are:

Helping readers or
viewers to
understand more
information that
might not be in
photos or videos.
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Generic Structure
A good caption has the following
structures

• The title
• The lead
• Section Heading
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 Language Features
The following are the language features of caption

• Exclamation
• Question
• Adjective Phrase
• Personal Phrase

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 Kinds of Caption

• Identification bar (who is someone in the picture)

• Cutline (who is the person and what’s happening )
• Summary (5w)
• Expanded (5w 1H, Complete caption)
• Quotes
• Identification group

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 Rules and How To Write a good caption
Rule of Writing a caption?
How to a write caption text?
• Supply specific information
(Answering 5W1H Question) • Observe the picture or
• User present tense on the first video you will give the
sentence caption
• Caption are written in a complete • Find out the message that
sentences will be sent from the picture
• Clearly identify the people and before you write caption
location in the photo
• Write sentence or phrase
• Identify the person from left to under the picture
right

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 BIG IMAGE

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Example of simple caption 8
 AstraZeneca is developing a COVID-19 vaccine with Oxford University and is among the front runners in the global vaccine
race, which according to a Reuters report, could provide early analyses of data from their various large trials over the next two
months. (Shutterstock/siam.pukkato)

This article was published in thejakartapost.com with the title "Indonesia aims to secure more vaccines from UK". Click to read:
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