Marda Dunsky

Watch Your Words (eBook, PDF)

A Writing and Editing Handbook for the Multimedia Age

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Journalists - even those working simultaneously in print, on air and on the Web - trade in words. Using language well across platforms is a vital skill; the cleaner and clearer the text, the more effective the result. Watch Your Words, now in its fourth edition, is a brief and accessible handbook for mastering baseline knowledge of punctuation, grammar, usage and Associated Press style.

This new edition features a new quality-control guide to writing and editing. The guide covers accuracy and fact-checking; brevity and tightening; clarity; use of quotes and attribution; and basic editing principles. The new edition also incorporates current AP style and continues to offer language-skills self-tests with answer keys, as well as sections on spelling and copy-editing symbols. It is an excellent resource for use in both the classroom and the newsroom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765182529
• Artikelnr.: 74843157

Autorenporträt

Marda Dunsky, an editor, educator and editorial consultant, teaches at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: On Disruption and Continuity Best Practices for Journalistic Writing Implicit Bias and Inclusive Storytelling Punctuation
Rules and Guidelines
Conjunction Junction: Comma Rules for and, but and or
Nonessential vs. Essential: That vs. Which
Punctuation Self
Test Grammar
Basic Terms and Concepts
Grammar Terms and Concepts Exercise
Mapping Who vs. Whom
Making the Right Choice
Practice Sentences: Who vs. Whom
Other Rules and Guidelines
Grammar Self
Tests Usage
Rules and Guidelines
Usage Self
Test RECAP: Comprehensive Self
Test AP Style
Evolutionary Updates and Evergreen Mainstays
AP Style Study Guides & Self
Tests Supplementary Self
Tests
Punctuation/AP Style Test
Grammar/AP Style Test
Usage/AP Style Test
Final Language
Skills Test
Quality
Control Guide to Writing and Editing
Accuracy and Fact
Checking
Fact
Checking Exercise
Brevity and Tightening
Tightening Exercise
Clarity
Clarity Exercise
Quotations and Attribution
Quotations and Attribution Exercise
Basic Editing Principles Spelling
Homonyms and Sound
Alikes Exercise
Spelltraps Copy
Editing Symbols
Copy
Editing Symbols Self
Test
Basic Symbolism Answer Keys
Punctuation Self
Test
Grammar Terms and Concepts Exercise
Grammar Self
Test I
Grammar Self
Test II
Usage Self
Test
RECAP: Comprehensive Self
Test
AP Style Self
Test I
AP Style Self
Test II
AP Style Self
Test III
Punctuation/AP Style Test
Grammar/AP Style Test
Usage/AP Style Test
Final Language
Skills Test
Fact
Checking Exercise
Tightening Exercise
Clarity Exercise
Quotations and Attribution Exercise
Homonyms and Sound
Alikes Exercise
Copy
Editing Symbols Self
Test