By Harold Evans, Crawford Gillan
ISBN-10: 0712664475
ISBN-13: 9780712664479
This brisk and smelly advisor to using phrases as instruments of conversation is written basically for reporters, but its classes are of big worth to all who face the matter of giving info, no matter if to most of the people or inside company, expert or social businesses. What makes an outstanding English sentence? How for those who rewrite a nasty one? What clichés and different word-traps are to be kept away from? How do you shorten unnecessarily verbose source-material? utilizing a wealth of examples drawn from British and American newspapers, crucial English is an critical advisor for all who've to show info by way of the written or revealed word.
Don't write "remunerate" for those who suggest "pay". you need to "send" no longer "transmit" and "help" yet no longer "facilitate". Take care with meanings too. If you're "disinterested" you're no longer bored, you're neutral. "Less" isn't interchangeable with "fewer" and a "principle" isn't the same as a "principal".
Harold Evans, editor of The Sunday occasions from 1967 to 1981 after which of the days for a 12 months, first wrote his Newsman's English and information Headlines within the Nineteen Seventies. In an age of more and more sloppy English, Evans's books bought the prestige of classics with their condemnation of dangling participles and gratuitous adjective and adverbs. Now they've been edited, up to date and merged right into a unmarried new quantity via Crawford Gillan. The emphasis, which hasn't dated in any respect, continues to be at the want for undeniable muscular English which says what it has to claim in as few well-chosen phrases as possible.
The ebook has not less than 3 makes use of. First, it can be a textual content ebook for trainee reporters, in particular given the big variety of released verbose examples Evans fees after which rewrites as demonstration items. moment, it has lots of suggestion for skilled newshounds and editors attempting to write larger. 3rd, it really is packed with beneficial suggestion for anyone--beyond the media--who desires to write extra coherently.
Essential English definitely increases know-how. you most likely won't learn it with no feeling obliged to double again and delete your redundancies the following time you write anything. within the universal expression "depreciate in value" the final phrases, for example, can cross with out lack of which means. You don't want "gainful" in entrance of "employment" both and Evans lists dozens of alternative examples. And be brutal with drained expressions equivalent to "wealth of information" or "pillar of the church", he advises. He additionally presents an interesting glossary for headline writers looking for pithiness. For "harmonisation," test "accord", "bargain", "compact", "pact", "peace", or "truce", he says. --Susan Elkin
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The result is an updated version now entitled Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers, a title that not only avoids accusations of gender bias in these changing times, but that seems to sit comfortably beside Essential Law for Journalists, the work that has served so well and so long as a legal bible for journalists. This new edition is a marriage of two books, Newsman’s English and News Headlines, the third book in the original series. It seemed sensible to extend guidance on the written word to include the advice on headlines.
They have been fished expertly from the erratic torrent, weighed, assessed, revalued in the light of later catches, and finally prepared for public display in a setting which, hopefully, will exactly reflect their significance. 8 million words have been discarded, most rejected as complete stories, many rejected as paragraphs, some excised a word at a time. It is this process of scrutiny and then of presentation which every day creates the New York Times and every other newspaper, and the skills it requires are the subject of this book.
Is still a valid command from ‘Front Page’. Often enough in one issue of a paper the same name will occur in a byline, shared with others, on a fire in Brooklyn, a road accident in Manhattan, the Mayor’s latest row, a graduation ceremony. He’s been everywhere! Actually, he hasn’t been anywhere. He (or she) shares the byline by virtue of having been nowhere but the newsroom. Rewrite journalists may have earned a share of the byline because they have simply recast the language of the story; they may have elicited some of the information by prodding the reporter or using their computer to search for back-up data.
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