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The Essential Feature : Writing for Magazines and Newspapers

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This helpful guidebook for prospective journalists provides the skills needed to be a successful magazine or newspaper feature writer. The Essential Feature is a writing guide, a file of examples, and a style manual all in one book. The author concentrates on those aspects of nonfiction writing that editors find wanting in beginning journalists: research, accuracy, and the skills needed to tell a story, not just report news. This book tells novice writers what editors want them to know.

The Essential Feature explains how to apply research and literary techniques to journalistic writing; provides eight examples of successful prize-winning published articles; combines approaches to writing with practical advice on working as a staff or freelance writer; and supplies publishing tips to give the beginning writer a better understanding of the market.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780231068871
  • ISBN-10: 0231068875
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publish Date: January 1991
  • Dimensions: 9.98 x 6.92 x 0.76 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Page Count: 289

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