Professional Feature Writing 5th Edition by Bruce Garrison ISBN 0415998972 9780415998970

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ISBN 10: 0415998972

ISBN 13: 978-0415998970

Author:  Bruce Garrison 

Professional Feature Writing 5th Edition: 

Professional Feature Writing provides the basics of news media feature writing and establishes a solid foundation for students and writers making feature writing their career. This fifth edition offers a thorough and up-to-date look at newspaper, magazine, newsletter, and online publications, with emphasis on daily newspapers and consumer magazines. It serves as a comprehensive introduction to feature writing, emphasizing writing skills, article types, and the collegiate and professional writing life. With a wide variety of perspectives and experiences of both young and experienced writers, editors, publishers, and professors, the text is filled with practical guidance for writing a wide variety of features.

Emphasizing writing values to strengthen a new writer’s journalistic practices, author Bruce Garrison offers insights and expertise based on his own experience and the advice of professionals. He also includes lists of tips, observations, guidelines, sources, and story ideas, and gives a solid tour of the forms and approaches to feature writing.

New for this edition are:

• Updated examples of feature writing, integrated throughout the text
• Profiles of young newspaper and magazine feature writers, highlighting their experiences and paths to success in the profession
• Coverage of computer-based research tools for writers, including discussion of on-line computer-based research tools with specific focus on the World Wide Web
• Discussion of online newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and original online publications and the role of feature writing for electronic publications.

Each chapter includes excerpts and complete articles from the nation’s leading publications.

Building on introductory writing and reporting skills, this text is appropriate for upper-division journalism students learning feature writing and advanced writing topics. It will also serve as a valuable resource for freelance writers.

 

Professional Feature Writing 5th Edition Table of contents:

Part One: The Basics

• Chapter 1: Feature writing today
• Chapter 2: Careers as feature writers and editors
• Chapter 3: Finding good feature article ideas
• Chapter 4: Researching feature article ideas
• Chapter 5: The writing, storytelling, and editing processes

Part Two: Types of Feature Articles

• Chapter 6: Descriptive and color writing
• Chapter 7: The human-interest article
• Chapter 8: Profiles and personality sketches
• Chapter 9: Seasonal features
• Chapter 10: Entertainment features and critical writing
• Chapter 11: Aftermath, follow-up, and depth series articles
• Chapter 12: Travel writing
• Chapter 13: Service features
• Chapter 14: Personal experience articles
• Chapter 15: Humor in feature writing
• Chapter 16: New technology and science features

Part Three: The Collegiate and Professional Writer

• Chapter 17: Writing feature articles on campus
• Chapter 18: Freelance writing and marketing
• Chapter 19: Surviving in the freelance business

 

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