Watch Your Words: A Writing and Editing Handbook for the Multimedia Age - Hardcover

Dunsky, Marda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1442253428 ISBN 13: 9781442253421

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Marda Dunsky, an editor, educator and editorial consultant, teaches at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.

Review

Watch Your Words is an affordably priced reference that succinctly covers the basics without a lot of extraneous nonsense. The self-tests and exercises are particularly useful. (William Huntzicker, St. Cloud State University)

The brevity, layout and ease of use make Watch Your Words an ideal reference guide. It presents important information in a straightforward, no-nonsense manner that will help students solve their issues quickly. (Brad Schultz, University of Mississippi)

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1442253428
• ISBN 13: 9781442253421
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 108