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Title: The Art and Craft of Feature Writing by William E. Blundell ISBN: 0-452-26158-9 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: November, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: simply the best book on the subject
Comment: This is it, the best book ever written on writing feature articles for newspapers and magazines. I've been writing, editing, and of course reading features for nearly 20 years, and have read many, many books on the subject. This is the one I press on colleagues, friends, even strangers on the street. It works because the damned thing is written by a guy who's done the work at a big-name daily (the Wall St. Journal), not an academic or writer manque. The book smells of the newsroom. It's real. Get it
Rating: 2
Summary: A bit boring?
Comment: Enthousiastic customer reviews made my choice of this book a no-brainer. Working for a major international news agency as a financial correspondent, I looked for some fresh methods, angles and ideas to incorporate in my interviews and market wrap-ups from the equity and corporate world. But reading through this (highly-praised) feature-writing guide I was disappointed to see that the material is very boring, outdated and repetitive of the examples used. The book may give some guidance for one-story-a-month, relaxed writers. But it looks out of touch with the modern world of editors demanding fairly speedy 'spot coverage' of events, where the newsbreaks and the accompanying stories are written on laptop computers and sent by e-mail.
Rating: 5
Summary: Writing as critical thinking
Comment: One of the biggest mistakes young reporters make is viewing reporting and writing as separate exercises, one following the other. Bill Blundell rightly sees them as one process. Good reporting begets good writing. It begins with critical thinking about your subject, which if done properly brings strong focus and organization to your story. In 20 years as a newspaper reporter and editor I've not run across a more practical, common sense approach to writing than that offered by the Art & Craft of Feature Writing.
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Title: Associated Press Guide to Newswriting (Study Aids/On-the-Job Reference) by Rene J. Cappon ISBN: 0028637550 Publisher: Arco Pub Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction by a Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner by Jon Franklin ISBN: 0452272955 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Writing to Deadline by Donald M. Murray ISBN: 0325002258 Publisher: Heinemann Publishing Pub. Date: 15 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Elements of Journalism : What Newspeople Should Know and The Public Should Expect by Tom Rosenstiel, Bill Kovach ISBN: 0609806912 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 26 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: FOLLOW THE STORY: HOW TO WRITE SUCCESSFUL NONFICTION by James B. Stewart ISBN: 0684850672 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 14 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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