A former AP General News Editor offers novices and seasoned professionals practical advice and lively commentary on writing like a pro. He covers a...
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Oct 07, 2011
We used this as one of our textbooks for my Advanced Media Writing class at BYU-Idaho. Cappon gives a lot of good tips, and excellent examples of what makes good and bad news writing. I think you'd need to have some knowledge of writing for media already to really apply what he's demonstrating here, but it's a lot of good information and has helped me improve my writing.
Jun 23, 2011
Not really sure how to rate this, since I don't have much to compare it to. Seemed like a brief but informative discussion of News Writing though.
Jun 05, 2008
Dave
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This book was incredibly helpful in my quest to write better articles for Wired.com. I plan on reading it again at some point. The real world tips and hints for saying what you mean succinctly. The section about writing ledes was also wonderfully eye-opening.
Jul 30, 2008
Adam
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This is a great book to read for anyone who needs to know how to write - well...there are a ton of things in here that you can pick up for grammar, punctuation and spelling that you would never guess you have been doing wrong.
Oct 12, 2008
Becky
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Much like Strunk and White's little book, this was produced in the same vein. It's invaluable. Highly recommend.
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