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.
| Format |
Inbunden |
| Omfång |
108 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Rowman & Littlefield |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2015-06-24 |
| ISBN |
9781442253421 |
