Newspaper language / Nicholas Bagnall.
Material type: TextSeries: Journalism media manual | Journalism media manualPublication details: Oxford : Focal, 1993.Description: vi,221p. ; 24cmISBN:- 9780750603997 (pbk) :
- 0750603992
- 808.06607 BAG
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 808.06607 BAG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 107163 |
Includes index.
1. What is newspaper English? 2. Journalism and journalese. 3. Writing for the tabloids. 4. Ways to start a story. 5. Sequence and structure. 6. Some storytelling techniques. 7. Bad habits. 8. The personal touch: questions of style. 9. Punctuation. 10. 'Quotes' 11. Grammar. 12. Beware of statistics
Proceeds logically from the elements of language to the idea of language as a transaction between writer and reader, then to a detailed examination of the structure of sentences and practical advice about how to organize a story, with a number of examples to illustrate each point.