The Invention Conceit
In our modern Scots-invented world of bloviation, headlines and titles can’t stand the heat of a literalist’s kitchen. Being a literalist when it comes to words and their usage (though not without a...
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Some of the most important words a journalist will write for the web are the headline. A headline has always been very important for print media. It is vitally important for the web. Because headlines...
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Instructions Instructors: The purpose of this exercise is to provide students with some practice in writing headlines for the web. Headlines, in the words of Jakob Nielsen, should be “pearls of...
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Instructions Instructors: The purpose of this exercise is to provide students with some practice in writing headlines for the web. Headlines, in the words of Jakob Nielsen, should be “pearls of...
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Instructions Instructors: The purpose of this exercise is to provide students with some practice in writing headlines for the web. Headlines, in the words of Jakob Nielsen, should be “pearls of...
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Instructions Instructors: The purpose of this exercise is to provide students with some practice in writing headlines for the web. Headlines, in the words of Jakob Nielsen, should be “pearls of...
View ArticleExercise: Writing headlines and summaries 01
This exercise includes two of the stories in exercise 7.3, page 186, of Writing for the Mass Media (7th ed). Instructors: The purpose of this exercise is to provide students with some practice in...
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This exercise includes two of the stories in exercise 7.4, page 187, of Writing for the Mass Media (7th ed). Instructors: The purpose of this exercise is to provide students with some practice in...
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