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Understanding Captions and Their Purpose

Captions provide context and relevance for images, appearing below pictures, graphics, or tables. Captions can be short descriptions or multiple sentences. Good captions clearly identify the subject without stating obvious details, are succinct, and establish relevance to the surrounding text to draw readers in. Captions also include article headings in magazines and newspapers as well as on-screen text in movies and television to set scenes.

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Understanding Captions and Their Purpose

Captions provide context and relevance for images, appearing below pictures, graphics, or tables. Captions can be short descriptions or multiple sentences. Good captions clearly identify the subject without stating obvious details, are succinct, and establish relevance to the surrounding text to draw readers in. Captions also include article headings in magazines and newspapers as well as on-screen text in movies and television to set scenes.

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A caption, also known as a cutline, is a text that appears below an image.

Most
captions draw attention to something in the image that is not obvious, such as its
relevance to the text.
Captions can consist of a few words of description, or several sentences. Along
with the title, lead, and section headings, captions are the most commonly read
words in an article, so they should be succinct and informative.
Captions also include a short title or heading of an article in a magazine or
newspaper. Words shown on a cinema or television screen to establish the scene of
a story are also called captions. Captions can also be inserted below/above charts,
figures, graphics and [Link] are several criteria for a good caption. A good
caption clearly identifies the subject of the picture without detailing the obvious. It
is succinct. It establishes the picture’s relevance to the article, provides context for
the picture, and draws the reader into the article.
How to Write Caption?
Observe the selected photo or video (Observasi foto atau video yang telah dipilih)
Find out the message from the picture (Cari pesan yang ingin disampaikan dari
gambar)
Write concise phrase or sentence under the picture (Tulis frasa atau kalimat di
bawah gambar)

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