Word watching tips from 345 TV and radio scripts.

Rewriting Network News: Wordwatching Tips from 345 TV and Radio Scripts

Humor & Entertainment

Block, Mervin

Radio

UNKNO

Need a quick answer to a question - or problem - that pops up while you're writing news? The answer is in this book. It's the first specific reference guide for broadcast newswriting. A tool chest for professionals, it's full of tips: tips about words - about writing, about language, about journalism.

Broadcast Newswriting: the RTNDA Reference Guide

Literature & Fiction

Thoroughly revised and greatly expanded, this new edition is even more helpful than the classic first edition. The 1997 revision of Writing Broadcast News - Shorter, Sharper, Stronger is 40 percent longer. And it's even richer and smoother...

Writing Broadcast News

Television

This disk and book enable students to learn the basics on their own. These new teaching tools put students to work, but let them proceed at their own pace. And let them run - or stroll - through a series of exercises on screen. They can take these exercises whenever and as often as they wish. Each round of exercises is a learning experience. Students learn the Dos and Don'ts, Cans and Can'ts, Musts and Mustn'ts. They learn them and learn how to apply them with a relaxed approach.

Writing News for TV and Radio: The Interactive Cd and Handbook

Politics & Social Sciences

Durso, Joe

Social Sciences

Taylor Trade Pub

This professional manual has been revised and updated. It features Merv Block′s countless do′s and don′ts, distilling them into a handy set of pointers. Journalists who are stumped by a problem can consult the book′s many chapters for mini-lessons on how to deal with it. Block points to action verbs and points out dozens of words not to use. And tells why not to use them. "Every writer needs an editor" is a truism, but editors are vanishing. So Block tells how a writer can be her own editor. His own, too.

Broadcast Newswriting: The RTDNA Reference Guide, A Manual for Professionals

Business & Money

CQ Press College

Mervin Block- who has written for the best in the business- offers timeless advice, guiding both first-year students and seasoned professionals through the essentials of writing for the ear. With countless scripts collected from writing workshops in newsrooms across the country, this resource is studded with insightful- and at times entertaining- comments, suggestions and much-needed corrections. Readers will find Block′s clear and incisive voice coming through in the expanded "Top Tips of the Trade" and the "Dozen Deadly Sins"―reminding us that mistakes can be our best teachers. New "WordWatcher" boxes highlight the challenges in writing for print versus broadcast.

Writing Broadcast News — Shorter, Sharper, Stronger: A Professional Handbook

Sociology

"It's not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them." – T.S. Eliot
For beginning writers, Writing News for TV and Radio is an indispensable guide to writing for the ear. By learning and applying the basic rules of broadcast newswriting, Block and Durso make sure that aspiring broadcast journalists write they way they talk and pay particular attention to grammar, language, and sentence structure. Useful appendices include the "Basic Work Rules" of reading a script on air and nearly a dozen wire stories to exercise readers' rewriting skills.

Writing News for TV and Radio: The New Way to Learn Broadcast Newswriting

CQ Press

In Rewriting Network News, Merv Block collects 345 network scripts that feature problems in grammar, news judgment, broadcast style, and storytelling, not to spotlight sinners, but sins that can be remedied. By reading scripts wi

Rewriting Network News: WordWatching Tips from 345 TV and Radio Scripts Mervin Block

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