Wynford Hicks, Gavin Allen

English for Journalists (eBook, ePUB)

Thirtieth Anniversary Edition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

English for Journalists has established itself in newsrooms the world over as an invaluable guide to the basics of English and to those aspects of writing, such as reporting speech, house style and jargon, which are specific to the language of journalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000895407
• Artikelnr.: 68347459

Autorenporträt

Wynford Hicks has worked as a reporter, subeditor, feature writer, editor and editorial consultant in magazines, newspapers and books, and as a teacher of journalism specialising in the use of English, subediting and writing styles. He is the author of Quite Literally.

Gavin Allen is Digital Journalism Lecturer at Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Culture. He has been a journalist for 20 years, latterly as Associate Editor of Mirror.co.uk, having previously worked at MailOnline, MSN and WalesOnline.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: how this book began
1 English today
2 Grammar: the rules
3 Grammar: 10 common mistakes
4 Grammar: problems and confusions
5 Spelling
6 Punctuation
7 Reporting speech
8 Style
9 Social media
10 Words
11 Foreign words
12 Figures
Appendix 1 Style guide
Appendix 2 The 'fronted adverbial' muddle
Appendix 3 Glossary of terms
Further reading
Index