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Practical Authorship; A Work Designed to Afford Writers an Insight Into Certain Technical, Commercial, and Financial Aspects of the Profession of Letters as Followed by the General Writer for Current Publication

Practical Authorship; A Work Designed to Afford Writers an Insight Into Certain Technical, Commercial, and Financial Aspects of the Profession of Letters as Followed by the General Writer for Current Publication


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V A Stepping Stone--The Training Valuable for Future Literary Work--Newspaper English--The Newspaper a Daily Magazine--Division of Labor--Necessary Qualities for a Reporter--How to Write.a News Story--Valuable Knowledge and Acquaintance--Famous Correspondents--Compensation--The Reporter's Field--Examples of Reportorial Work. THE work of the newspaper reporter is not often considered among the higher or more enticing branches of literary endeavor. Most of the reporter's work is performed hastily, his copy is prepared while the presses are waiting, and there is little time to infuse any literary spirit into his work even though he has the ability. His contributions form an important part of the make-up of the daily issues of the great organs of news and public opinion, yet that which he contributes is rarely signed, and so he has no opportunity to make his personality known to the reading public. Yet, notwithstanding these difficulties and drawbacks, there are a few men who have made the obscure post of the reporter a steppingstone to the higher walks of literary life. In some ways the training that the reporter receives in the ceaseless and often unpleasant grind of newspaper work, is of the highest value. It teaches him to think and act quickly and to seize unerringly the salient points of a story. He will turn toward dramatic forms of expression naturally, realizing that in the brief space allotted to him in the columns of his journal, that which he has to say needs to be said effectively. Condensation, the doing away with redundant verbiage, the uselessness of fine writing, are all borne in upon him daily by the editorial blue pencil which ruthlessly cuts down his half column to a compact stick-full. A reporter upon a great newspaper comes into ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151217592
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 54
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115121759X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 113 gr

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