Written to help aspiring writers become professionally competent in the field of print journalism, this volume provides guidelines for writing more interpretative and explanatory news stories.
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Those writers and editors I see on my Detroit visits will find some familiar lines in this memo and in those that follow. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
interest deadline, nutshell summary, misplaced part, nonrestrictive clause, suspended sentence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Detroit News, Stray Notes, Washington Post, New York Times, Portmanteau Islands, Nazi Germany, Tom Swifties, Louis Post-Dispatch, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, The New Yorker, Wilson Follett, Architectural Digest, Dashiell Hammett, Denver Post, John Jones, Livingston County, Northwest Orient, President Reagan, The Wiz New!
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Those writers and editors I see on my Detroit visits will find some familiar lines in this memo and in those that follow. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
interest deadline, nutshell summary, misplaced part, nonrestrictive clause, suspended sentence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Detroit News, Stray Notes, Washington Post, New York Times, Portmanteau Islands, Nazi Germany, Tom Swifties, Louis Post-Dispatch, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, The New Yorker, Wilson Follett, Architectural Digest, Dashiell Hammett, Denver Post, John Jones, Livingston County, Northwest Orient, President Reagan, The Wiz New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. on page 87, and page 98
- Oxford Fowler's Modern English Usage Dictionary by H. W. Fowler on page 93, and page 94
- English Prose Style by Herbert Read on page 24, and page 197
- Modern American Usage: A Guide by Wilson Follett on page 23, and page 97
- Tom Swift & His Airship by Victor Appleton II on page 184
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- The Official All My Children Trivia Book by Gerard J. Waggett on page 186
- Journalistic Approach to Good Writing: Craft CL-03-2 by Robert M. Knight in Back Matter
- The Journalist's Craft : A Guide to Writing Better Stories by Dennis Jackson in Back Matter
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