Watch Your Words

Journalistic Writing and Editing for the Digital Age

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Marda Dunsky

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In print for twenty years, Watch Your Words is a brief and accessible handbook for mastering best practices of journalistic writing. This new, fifth edition includes tips from experts with experience across the journalistic spectrum on best practices that predate the digital age while resonating within it. The fifth edition also includes new content on implicit bias and inclusive storytelling—prevalent themes in digital age journalism that reflect how journalists are increasingly aware of, and acting on, social impacts of framing and language that they use in their stories.Watch Your Words continues to be distinguished from other journalism reference works by its brevity. It provides accessible baseline instruction in its core content of punctuation, grammar, usage and updated entries on Associated Press style through clear-cut examples, self-quizzes, and answer keys. It also presents sections on accuracy and fact-checking, brevity, clarity, and use of direct quotations, with exercises, as well as an editing guide. Where digital grammar-fix and spell-check programs are useful, Watch Your Words provides a succinct yet deeper dive to help journalists and other media professionals master basic yet essential wordsmithing tools of their trades.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-11-16
Mått183 x 261 x 13 mm
Vikt435 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor122
Upplaga5
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538176351

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Marda Dunsky, a print journalist and journalism scholar, is an assistant professor in residence at Northwestern University in Qatar. Dunsky has 15 years of service at Northwestern University in Evanston. As a member of the Medill School of Journalism faculty, she has taught print editing, basic reporting, global journalism, and a seminar of her design, “Reporting the Arab and Muslim Worlds.” She has also served as an adviser to international students in the Medill MSJ program. She has held editing and reporting positions at newspapers including source and copy editor on the national-foreign news desk of the Chicago Tribune and Arab affairs reporter at The Jerusalem Post.

Introduction: On Disruption and ContinuityBest Practices for Journalistic Writing Implicit Bias and Inclusive Storytelling Punctuation -Rules and Guidelines -Conjunction Junction: Comma Rules for and, but and or-Nonessential vs. Essential: That vs. Which -Punctuation Self-Test Grammar -Basic Terms and Concepts -Grammar Terms and Concepts Exercise-Mapping Who vs. Whom -Making the Right Choice -Practice Sentences: Who vs. Whom-Other Rules and Guidelines -Grammar Self-Tests Usage -Rules and Guidelines -Usage Self-Test RECAP: Comprehensive Self-Test AP Style -Evolutionary Updates and Evergreen Mainstays -AP Style Study Guides & Self-TestsSupplementary Self-Tests -Punctuation/AP Style Test-Grammar/AP Style Test-Usage/AP Style Test -Final Language-Skills Test -Quality-Control Guide to Writing and Editing -Accuracy and Fact-Checking -Fact-Checking Exercise -Brevity and Tightening -Tightening Exercise -Clarity-Clarity Exercise-Quotations and Attribution-Quotations and Attribution Exercise-Basic Editing Principles Spelling -Homonyms and Sound-Alikes Exercise-SpelltrapsCopy-Editing Symbols -Copy-Editing Symbols Self-Test -Basic Symbolism Answer Keys -Punctuation Self-Test -Grammar Terms and Concepts Exercise -Grammar Self-Test I -Grammar Self-Test II -Usage Self-Test -RECAP: Comprehensive Self-Test -AP Style Self-Test I -AP Style Self-Test II -AP Style Self-Test III -Punctuation/AP Style Test -Grammar/AP Style Test -Usage/AP Style Test -Final Language-Skills Test -Fact-Checking Exercise-Tightening Exercise-Clarity Exercise -Quotations and Attribution Exercise -Homonyms and Sound-Alikes Exercise -Copy-Editing Symbols Self-Test