| Description |
xii, 259 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Disorganized, debilitated reporter -- Learning to function more efficiently -- Major commandment: Make it interesting -- Raw Materials -- How and where to get ideas -- Picking the proper subject matter -- Need for files -- Finding and cultivating sources -- Thinking about story ideas: Extrapolation, synthesis -- Advancing story ideas: Localization, projection, viewpoint switching -- What readers like and don't like: Dogs, people, facts, observers, numbers -- Why the ideas with action in them are the best ideas -- Shaping Ideas -- Importance of forethought -- Range of the story: Keeping it narrow -- Theme of the story: The importance of the main theme statement -- Developing the theme of a general profile or a microcosm profile -- Approach of the story: The limits of the profile and the roundup -- Tone of the story: Why it is important -- Story Dimensions -- Time: The importance of the past and the future, as well as the present -- Scope: The quantity, locale, diversity and intensity of a development -- Variety: Using various source levels and internal proofs -- Movement: The built-in kind and the alternation of opposite elements -- Reporter's role: Neither lawyer nor scholastic nor objectivist nor formula follower. But what then? -- Planning and Execution -- A six-part guide for the reporter -- History: Does the main theme development have roots in the past? -- Scope: How widespread, intense and various is the development? -- Reasons: Why is it happening now? -- Impacts: Who or what is affected-and how? |
| Analysis |
COMMUNICATIONS |
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MEDIA |
| Notes |
"A Plume book." |
| SUBJECT |
Wall Street journal. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82048952
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| Subject |
Feature writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Feature writing.
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Technical writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Authorship.
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Technical writing.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| LC no. |
88025307 |
| ISBN |
0452261589 |
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