TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bagnall,Nicholas
TI  - Newspaper language
T2  - Journalism media manual
SN  - 9780750603997 (pbk) :
U1  - 808.06607 BAG 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Focal
KW  - Journalism
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Editing
KW  - Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
KW  - thema
KW  - Writing & editing guides
KW  - News media & journalism
KW  - Serials
KW  - Composition (Arts)
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -