Real Feature Writing: Story Shapes and Writing Strategies from the Real World of Journalism (Routledge Communication Series) - Hardcover

Aamidor, Abraham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805858318 ISBN 13: 9780805858310

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

Real Feature Writing emphasizes story shape and structure by illustrating several distinct types of feature and non-fiction stories, all drawn from the real world. Author Abraham Aamidor presents a collection of distinct non-deadline story types (profile, trend, focus, advocacy, and more), providing an introduction to each story type, a full-text example, a critical analysis of the example, and clear directions for producing similar stories. In this second edition, Aamidor and his guest contributors (all with real-world journalistic experience) demonstrate in clear, honest language how to write features.

New for this edition are:
*updated examples of feature writing, integrated throughout the text;*a chapter on ethical journalism, which takes a critical look at propaganda;*a chapter on international perspectives, including coverage of issues in the Middle East;*chapters on research, freelancing, content editing, copyediting, and literary journalism.
This text is appropriate for upper-level journalism students, and will be a valuable resource for freelance writers and young working journalists needing guidance on writing features.

About this title

About the Author

Abraham Aamidor (Author),  Howard Sinker (Contributions by),  Susan Fadem (Contributions by),  Hank Nuwer (Franklin College) (Contributions by),  Nelson Price (Contributions by),  Yahya R Kamalipour, Ph.D. (Contributions by),  Stacey Mann (Contributions by),  Laurie Hertzel (Contributions by)

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0805858318
• ISBN 13: 9780805858310
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 180