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.."". this is surely one of the more thoughtful books on magazine journalism. Highly recommended."" -- Library Journal
""An excellent how-to, guaranteed to satisfy requests from would-be authors."" -- Booklist
.."". provides writers with hundreds of ideas to help stimulate their creative approach to magazine article writing."" -- WRITERS' Journal
""All kinds of writers will want to keep this volume on their handiest reference shelf."" -- Arts Indiana
""For any aspiring magazine writer, or even a practiced one, this book is a treasury of inspiration and solid, eye-opening instruction."" -- Herald-Times
""More than just another writer's guide to marketing an article, or coming up with salable ideas, [the book] is actually an idea promoter in that it illustrates the basic principles of good magazine article writing, uses examples from well-known publications, and offers strategies for leading into an involving piece."" -- The Midwest Book Review
In this indispensable text, veteran journalist Peter Jacobi offers students hundreds of ideas to help them become more creative in their approach to thinking, planning, and writing magazine articles. Packed with useful advice and top-notch examples, this book takes a practical, hands-on approach to help beginning writers turn everyday subjects into compelling features.
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About the Author
Peter P. Jacobi is Professor of Journalism at Indiana University. He is a consultant for magazines, a specialist in speech coaching and media training, and author of several books, including Writing with Style: The News Story and the Feature and The Messiah Book: The Life and Times of G. F. Handel's Greatest Hit.
From Library Journal
Journalism professor Jacobi focuses on article writing as a creative process as opposed to a way of making money. He notes that insight and deep feeling lead to the best writing, quoting poems and other fine work as examples. Articles are excerpted from varied publications to exemplify how such techniques as information gathering, structuring, exposition, and description have led to successful results. A chapter is devoted to close analysis of two articles, one an investigative expose on arson that appeared in Playboy , the other a major story in Restaurants & Institutions on combatting high labor turnover. A chapter also considers such near relatives of the article as the personal essay and the profile. Not concerned with manuscript mechanics or marketing, this is surely one of the more thoughtful books on magazine journalism. Highly recommended.
- William A. Donovan, Chicago P.L.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherIndiana University Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0253332656
- ISBN 13 9780253332653
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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