Writing for the Mass Media

Title: Writing for the Mass Media
Creator: Stovall, James G.
Date: 2022-08-22T19:36:38Z
Date Available: 2022-08-22T19:36:38Z
Date Issued: 2015
Abstract: Writing is one thing; writing about writing is another. Like most people, I cannot remember the first word or the first sentence that I wrote. (I am reasonably sure they were not momentous.) I can remember always being encouraged to write, however, by parents and teachers who knew the importance of writing. I have always enjoyed and admired good writing, and I continue to be in awe of it. How Mark Twain could have created such a wonderful and timeless story as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, how Henry David Thoreau could have distilled his thoughts into the crisp and biting prose of Walden, or how Red Smith could have turned out high-quality material for his sports column day after day—all of this is continually amazing to me. I frankly admit that I don’t know how they did it. Yet here I am writing about writing. Why should I be doing this? At least three reasons occur to me immediately.
Identifier: 9th Edition; 9780133863277
Language: en
Publisher: Pearson
Subject: Writing,; Mass media; Authorship; Medios de Comunicación
Type: Book