Feature Writing For Journalists (Media Skills)

Feature Writing for Journalists considers both newspapers and magazines and helps the new or aspiring journalist to become a successful feature writer. Using examples from a wide range of papers, specialist and trade magazines and 'alternative' publications, Sharon Wheeler considers the different types of material that come under the term 'feature' including human interest pieces, restaurant reviews and advice columns. With relevant case studies as well as interviews with practitioners, Feature Writing for Journalists is exactly what you need to understand and create exciting and informative features.

Feature Writing for Journalists (Media Skills)

Politics & Social Sciences

Wheeler, Sharon

Social Sciences

Routledge

Feature Writing for Journalists considers both newspapers and magazines and helps the new or aspiring journalist to become a successful feature writer. Using examples from a wide range of papers, specialist and trade magazines and 'alternative' publications, Sharon Wheeler considers the different types of material that come under the term 'feature' including human interest pieces, restaurant reviews and advice columns. With relevant case studies as well as interviews with practitioners, Feature Writing for Journalists is exactly what you need to understand and create exciting and informative features.

Business & Money

Economics

Focusing on the neglected journalism of writers more famous for their novels or plays, this new book explores the specific functions of journalism within the public sphere, and celebrate the literary qualities of journalism as a genre. Key features include: <ul>
<li>an international focus taking in writers from the UK, the USA and France</li> <li>essays featuring a range of extremely popular writers (such as Dickens, Orwell, Angela Carter, Truman Capote) and approaches them from distinctly original angles.</li>
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Each chapter begins with a concise biography to help contextualise the the journalist in question and includes references and suggested further reading for students. Any student or teacher of journalism or media studies will want to add this book to their reading list.

The Journalistic Imagination: Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter

Literature & Fiction

Keeble, Richard

History & Criticism

The Journalistic Imagination

Investigating Science with Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs are every students fascination. Reproducible, hands-on activities give students the opportunity to experience how the scientific process works and how scientists form and test conclusions. Students build and employ skills in analysis, drawing, measuring, graphing, and arithmetic; exercise research and library skills to acquire data necessary to complete the activities; and apply critical-thinking skills to extrapolate from the known to the unknown-the fundamental process that makes science work. Grades 4-12.

Dinosaurs (Investigating science)

Reference

Creative Teaching Press

Feature Writing for Journalists examines the specific skills and challenges in writing engaging, exploratory and illuminating features for publication across a range of media. Exploring the whole craft of feature writing, from developing an idea to different methods of publication, the book examines a range of feature types, including personal features, long form news-based stories and different types of review. The new edition features a brand new chapter on creating engaging online and interactive features and highlighting the specific skills and challenges in writing for digital platforms. Examples are updated and new interviews with staff and freelance writers are featured throughout.

This highly illustrated book explains the effects of scars and adhesions on the body through the lens of biotensegrity, a concept that recognizes the role of physical forces on their formation, structure and treatment. It includes contributions from specialists in the fields of fascial anatomy, biotensegrity, movement, surgery and other manual therapies. It takes a comprehensive approach to providing a better understanding of these complex issues and will be valuable to every hands-on practitioner. The text is supported with online videos demonstrating five ScarWork therapeutic techniques.

Scars, Adhesions and the Biotensegral Body: Science, Assessment and Treatment

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Trewartha, Jan

Alternative Medicine

Handspring Publishing

Barbara Walters Biography: A Look Into the Life of the First Female Tv Host Sensation and Influential Journalist

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Independently published

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