© Columbia University Press
The Essential Feature: Writing for Magazines and Newspapers
February, 1990
Paper, 289 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-06887-1
$38.50
/ £22.50
Cloth, 289 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-06886-4
$83.50
/ £49.00
This helpful guidebook for prospective journalists provides the skills needed to be a successful magazine or newspaper feature writer. The Essential Feature is a writing guide, a file of examples, and a style manual all in one book. The author concentrates on those aspects of nonfiction writing that editors find wanting in beginning journalists: research, accuracy, and the skills needed to tell a story, not just report news. This book tells novice writers what editors want them to know.
The Essential Feature explains how to apply research and literary techniques to journalistic writing; provides eight examples of successful prize-winning published articles; combines approaches to writing with practical advice on working as a staff or freelance writer; and supplies publishing tips to give the beginning writer a better understanding of the market.