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Writing Like a Journalist

by Jim Stovall
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Good writing is at the heart of journalism.Journalists write for a living. They use words precisely and efficiently. They present accurate, verified information in a way that a mass audience will understand it by reading or hearing it only once.Such writing takes skill, discipline and practice.Writing Like a Journalist will give the reader some of the basic concepts of how journalists achieve good writing — writing that an audience can understand and will pay for.Chapters topics in this volume include:
  • The discipline of good writing
  • Mastering the language
  • Tools of writing: Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling
  • Why journalistic writing is different
  • The inverted pyramid structure
  • Headlines
  • Writing for audio and visual journalismThe book also contains a bonus chapter on the First Amendment with sections on each of the five freedoms protected by the amendment and a section on the history and development of the amendment.

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    • Release date

      August 17, 2015

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        • ISBN: 9781310358708

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        • ISBN: 9781310358708
        • File size: 773 KB

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    • Languages

      • English

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    • English