Watch Your Words : A Writing and Editing Handbook for the Multimedia Age
Fourth Edition
by
Marda Dunsky
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1442253428
ISBN-13
9781442253421
Edition
Fourth Edition
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint
Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 24th, 2015
Print length
108 Pages
Weight
418 grams
Dimensions
18.80 x 26.30 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Writing & editing guides
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The fourth edition of Watch Your Words incorporates current Associated Press style and a new guide to basic editing principles. As an accessible handbook for mastering baseline knowledge of punctuation, grammar, and usage, it is ideal for quick use in the classroom and the newsroom.
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.
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