ISBN: 9781154697643

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...under the title The Writing of News.6 There are chapters on newspaper copy; the English of the newspapers; the writer''s viewpoint; the importance of accuracy; news values; writing the lead; the story proper; the feature story; the interview; special types of stories; the correspondent; copy reading; writing the head; don''ts for news writers; and newspaper bromides. The sixty-fourth annual issue of the English Who''s Who,'' the edition for 1912,contains 2364 pages as compared with 2246 in Who''s8 Who the preceding edition. It includes information about the subjects therein up to September I, 1911. This indispensable office manual maintains its traditional high standard. A LIBRARY OF MODERN RESEARCH A publishing enterprise on original lines is The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge.1 This is a series of specially written knowledge bks on subjects of importance and fields of literature and art, philosophy and religion, history, natural science, and social science. The aim in each instance is to present the freshest information on each subject and to ignore discarded theories and hypotheses that have been found, as a result of modern research, to be clearly untenable. The books are admirably adapted to the needs of men and women who have not been able to specialize in particular fields of knowledge, but who wish to obtain accurate and sound ideas of what has been found out by the specialists. The series appeals less to the imaginative and dramatic instincts of readers than to the sober, earnest desire for knowledge that is often encountered in mature life. The volume on Polar Exploration, for example, instead of giving a narrative of the thrilling exploits of the... Albert Shaw, Books, History, The American Review of Reviews Volume 45 Books>History <