The Basics of Media Writing
eBook - ePub

The Basics of Media Writing

A Strategic Approach

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eBook - ePub

The Basics of Media Writing

A Strategic Approach

About this book

The Basics of Media Writing: A Strategic Approach helps readers develop the essential writing skills and professional habits needed to succeed in 21st-century media careers. This research-driven, strategy-based media writing textbook digs deeply into how media professionals think and write in journalism, public relations, advertising, and other forms of strategic communication. Authors Scott A. Kuehn and Andrew Lingwall have created two comprehensive writing models to help students overcome their problems in finding and developing story topics by giving them "starting points" to begin writing. The Professional Strategy Triangle model shows students how to think critically about the audience, the situation, and the message before starting a news story or persuasive piece and the FAJA four-point model asks students a series of questions about their story type (Fact, Analysis, Judgment, or Action) to guide them to the right angle or organizational structure for their message. Rooted in classical rhetorical methods, this step-by-step technique enables readers to strategically approach each writing task, no matter the format.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Detailed Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. About the Authors
  10. Section I Media Writing Foundations
  11. Chapter 1 You as a Writer
  12. Chapter 2 Media Writing Professions and Strategies
  13. Chapter 3 Media Writing Style and Language Conventions
  14. Section II News Settings
  15. Chapter 4 Reporting and Interviewing
  16. Chapter 5 Hard News and Feature Writing
  17. Chapter 6 Electronic News Writing: Radio and Television
  18. Chapter 7 Copyediting
  19. Chapter 8 Media Law and Ethics
  20. SECTION III Digital Settings
  21. Chapter 9 Writing for Social Media
  22. Chapter 10 Web Copywriting
  23. Section IV Persuasive Settings
  24. Chapter 11 Basic Persuasive Writing
  25. Chapter 12 Public Relations
  26. Chapter 13 Advertising
  27. Chapter 14 Business Communication
  28. Appendix: Media Writer’s Self-Perception Scale
  29. Index
  30. Publisher Note