Watch Your Words
eBook - PDF

Watch Your Words

A Writing and Editing Handbook for the Multimedia Age

  1. 109 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Watch Your Words

A Writing and Editing Handbook for the Multimedia Age

About this book

Journalists — even those working simultaneously in print, on air and on the Web — trade in words. Using language well across platforms is a vital skill; the cleaner and clearer the text, the more effective the result. Watch Your Words, now in its fourth edition, is a brief and accessible handbook for mastering baseline knowledge of punctuation, grammar, usage and Associated Press style.

This new edition features a new quality-control guide to writing and editing. The guide covers accuracy and fact-checking; brevity and tightening; clarity; use of quotes and attribution; and basic editing principles. The new edition also incorporates current AP style and continues to offer language-skills self-tests with answer keys, as well as sections on spelling and copy-editing symbols. It is an excellent resource for use in both the classroom and the newsroom.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Getting Text Right
  3. Punctuation
  4. Grammar
  5. Usage
  6. AP Stylebook Study Guide
  7. Spelling
  8. Copy-Editing Symbols
  9. Supplementary Self-Tests
  10. Quality-Control Guide to Writing and Editing
  11. Answer Keys
  12. Index
  13. About the Author