The Art and Craft of Feature Writing: Based on The Wall Street Journal Guide - Softcover

Blundell, William E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452261589 ISBN 13: 9780452261587

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 1988

Synopsis

Storytelling—how to catch and hold a reader’s interest through artful narration of factual material
 
William E. Blundell, one of the best writers on one of America''s best-written papers—The Wall Street Journal—has put his famous Journal Feature-Writing Seminars into this step-by-step guide for turning out great articles. Filled with expert instruction on a complex art, it provides beginners with a systematic approach to feature writing and deftly teaches old pros some new tricks about:
 
·         How and where to get ideas
·         What readers like and don’t like
·         Adding energy and interest to tired topics
·         Getting from first ideas to finish article
·         The rules of organization
·         How—and whom—to quote and paraphrase
·         Wordcraft, leads, and narrative flow
·         Self-editing and notes on style
 
… plus many sample feature articles.

About this title

About the Author

William E. Blundell was a news editor at the Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter, page-one writer, Los Angeles Bureau chief, and national correspondent. He won the Mike Berger Award, granted by the trustees of Columbia University, for distinguished metropolitan reporting in New York; the Ray Howard Public Service Award of the Scripps-Howard Foundation, and the Distinguished Writing Award for non-deadline feature writing, granted by the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452261589
• ISBN 13: 9780452261587
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272