Writing Like a Journalist: Note, Notations and Notions on the Craft of Writing (Tennessee Journalism Series)

Good writing is at the heart of journalism.Journalists write for a living. They use words precisely and efficiently. They present accurate, verified information in a way that a mass audience will understand it by reading or hearing it only once.Such writing takes skill, discipline and practice. Writing Like a Journalist will give the reader some of the basic concepts of how journalists achieve good writing -- writing that an audience can understand and will pay for. Chapters topics in this volume include: * The discipline of good writing * Mastering the language * Tools of writing: Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling * Why journalistic writing is different * The inverted pyramid structure * Headlines * Writing for audio and visual journalism The book also contains a bonus chapter on the First Amendment with sections on each of the five freedoms protected by the amendment and a section on the history and development of the amendment.