Book description
Hennessy's classic text tells you everything you need to know about writing successful features. You will learn how to formulate and develop ideas and how to shape them to fit different markets.Now in its fourth edition, Writing Feature Articles has been fully revised and updated to take into account the changing requirements of journalism and media courses. You will also discover how to exploit new technology for both researching and writing online.
Learn step-by-step how to plan, research and write articles for a wide variety of 'popular', 'quality' and specialist publications. Discover more and make the advice stick by completing the tasks and reading the keen analysis of extracts from the best of today's writing.
Packed with inspirational advice in a friendly, highly readable style, this guide is a must-have for practising and aspiring journalists and writers.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword: From a lecturer
- Foreword: From a writer
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
-
I PRACTISING THE SKILLS
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Getting organized
- 3 From idea to publication
- 4 The world of ideas
- 5 Studying the print market
- 6 Subjects and treatments
- 7 The commissioning and the editing
- 8 Ways of finding out
- 9 Researching and writing online
- 10 Creating the best order
- 11 Making a coherent whole
- 12 Developing writing techniques
- 13 The style for the purpose
- 14 Illustrating with impact
- II EXPANDING YOUR HORIZONS
- Appendix 1 Suggested responses to assignments
- Appendix 2 National Union of Journalists – Professional Code of Conduct
- Appendix 3 Press Complaints Commission: Code of Practice for the Press
- Appendix 4 The Society of Authors’ Quick Guide 1: Copyright and Moral Rights
- Appendix 5 Useful contacts
- Appendix 6 Training
- Bibliography
- Index
Product information
- Title: Writing Feature Articles, 4th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2013
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136025532
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