Abraham Aamidor

Real Feature Writing

Story Shapes and Writing Strategies from the Real World of Journalism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Real Feature Writing" emphasizes story shape and structure by illustrating several distinct types of feature and non-fiction stories, all drawn from the real world. Author Abraham Aamidor presents a collection of distinct non-deadline story types (profile, trend, focus, advocacy, and more) along with an introduction to each story type, a full-text example, a critical analysis of the example, and clear directions for producing similar stories. In this second edition, Aamidor and his guest contributors--all with real-world journalistic experience--demonstrate in clear, honest language how to write features.
New for this edition are:
*updated examples of feature writing, integrated throughout the text; *a chapter on ethical journalism, which takes a critical look at propaganda; *a chapter on international perspectives, including coverage of issues in the Middle East; *chapters on research, freelancing, content editing, copyediting, and literary journalism.
This text is appropriate for upper-level journalism students, and will be a valuable resource for freelance writers and young working journalists needing guidance on writing features.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780805858327
• ISBN-10: 0805858326
• Artikelnr.: 21221133

Autorenporträt

Abraham Aamidor (Author),  Howard Sinker (Contributions by),  Susan Fadem (Contributions by),  Hank Nuwer (Franklin College) (Contributions by),  Nelson Price (Contributions by),  Yahya R Kamalipour, Ph.D. (Contributions by),  Stacey Mann (Contributions by),  Laurie Hertzel (Contributions by)

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Part I: Types of Feature Stories. The Profile. The Trend Story. The Focus Story. The Pro-and-Con Story. The News Peg. Y.R. Kamalipour
International Perspectives. Advocacy Journalism. Part II: Writing Features. The Lead. N. Price
Interview Techniques. Best Use of Quotes. H. Nuwer
Literary Journalism. H. Sinker
Research. L. Hertzel
Content Editing for Features. S. Mann
Copy Editing for Features. S. Fadem
Freelancing. Ethics 201.