Storycrafting

Storycrafting
Author: Kenneth L. Rosenauer
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2004-08-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780813809465

Research has shown that writing is a process – writers gather information, organize, draft, revise, and publish their work. Kenneth Rosenauer has adapted this research to create Storycrafting: A Process Approach to Writing News, a fully developed, process-oriented news-writing textbook that provides students effective tools to grapple with the complex task of writing. Storycrafting is based on the notion that all good writing is, in a sense, good storytelling. The text makes liberal use of writing examples from award-winning college and university newspapers, allowing readers to see how their peers successfully handled similar writing tasks. By focusing on the “how” instead of the “what” of news writing activity—the process rather than the product—Storycrafting: A Process Approach to Writing News shows student journalists how to proficiently craft compelling and meaningful news stories. In the first five chapters, Rosenauer establishes the foundation for using the “process approach” to teach news writing. This approach enables students to start writing sooner and to write as they learn. Once the foundation is in place, closely related aspects of process follow: ownership, audience, peer review, and coaching. Beginning with chapter six, students discover additional in-depth resources to hone their news writing knowledge and skills, all presented through the filter of the process approach. The final three chapters of the book focus on journalistic conduct, legal and ethical issues, and current trends in journalism. Each chapter includes numerous “For Practice” and “Crafting and Drafting” story-writing opportunities. The accompanying Instructor’s Resource Manual (available free on the Web) describes the theoretical underpinnings of process methodology and provides both new and experienced journalism educators the tools to make this book an effective and exciting component of the classroom experience

The Process of Writing News

The Process of Writing News
Author: Brian Richardson
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Using examples and exercises, The Process of Writing News takes an "impact, elements, and words" approach to demystify reporting and writing for beginners. This is a concise book that approaches writing as a process, using a pedagogy that has proven effective. In each chapter, the book addresses the roles of journalists at several levels of abstraction, beginning with their responsibilities to audiences in a democratic society, and continuing with ethical decision-making in fulfilling those responsibilities. Each chapter ends with reporting and writing exercises which allow the reader to develop skills for informing audiences and telling compelling stories in print, broadcast, and online news media and to practice and be evaluated on those skills. The reader is taken through a year in the life of a fictional community, revisiting issues and stories in a series of more than two dozen linked exercises of increasing complexity, from lede writing to handling a major breaking story on deadline. There are even opportunities to report and write from the reader's own community.

Writing for Broadcast News

Writing for Broadcast News
Author: Charles Raiteri
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2006
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780742540279

Describes the storytelling elements of a broadcast news story. It shows students and professionals of radio and TV journalism how to apply structure to stories. Use cases of news reports and evaluation checklists are presented.

Storycraft, Second Edition

Storycraft, Second Edition
Author: Jack Hart
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-04-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 022673708X

Jack Hart, master writing coach and former managing editor of the Oregonian, has guided several Pulitzer Prize–winning narratives to publication. Since its publication in 2011, his book Storycraft has become the definitive guide to crafting narrative nonfiction. This is the book to read to learn the art of storytelling as embodied in the work of writers such as David Grann, Mary Roach, Tracy Kidder, and John McPhee. In this new edition, Hart has expanded the book’s range to delve into podcasting and has incorporated new insights from recent research into storytelling and the brain. He has also added dozens of new examples that illustrate effective narrative nonfiction. This edition of Storycraft is also paired with Wordcraft, a new incarnation of Hart’s earlier book A Writer’s Coach, now also available from Chicago.

Writing and Reporting the News as a Story

Writing and Reporting the News as a Story
Author: Robert Lloyd
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Journalism
ISBN: 9780205440016

This book is about writing and storytelling. The authors provide plenty of fresh insights helpful. Filled with current examples and tips from Pulitzer-Prize winning professionals, writing and reporting. It offers practical and real guidance to readers truly interested in a future in journalism. It is very useful book.

Writing to Deadline

Writing to Deadline
Author: Donald Morison Murray
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN:

"The news-writing process; reporting and writing for surpise; focusing your story; draft writing; editing and fine-tuning; case studies of real journalists at work."--Cover.

Writing and Reporting News

Writing and Reporting News
Author: Carole Rich
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780534562786

This practical text uses a coaching method to introduce students to the basic skills required of a news reporter (covers conceiving, researching, organizing and writing the news story). It emphasizes the fundamentals as well as the emerging issues, such as technology and ethics in journalistic writing. After using this motivational and engaging text your students will be well prepared to write effectively in every news medium.

Story Like a Journalist - What Relates to Premise

Story Like a Journalist - What Relates to Premise
Author: Amber Royer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2020-06-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781952854026

Want to write novels that feel real enough to the reader to have been ripped from the headlines, whatever your genre? Think like a journalist. Just like a journalist, as a fiction writer, you will need to define WHAT your story is about. For the novelist WHAT relates to premise. In this textbook/workbook you will look at what you plan to write about from different angles and will use the information you uncover to create a story premise that has an active protagonist in an intriguing story, fighting for high stakes. (These can include both external-world stakes and emotional stakes). This workbook also deals with how to generate ideas. There is instructional material that focuses on understanding how to build conflict into your story, understand clear goals and motivations for character action, and making sure that your stakes are high enough. All of this works in tandem with the worksheets. -- Hemmingway worked as a newspaper journalist before he became a fiction writer. E.B. White did a stint at the New Yorker. L.M. Montgomery was a reporter in Halifax before tackling Anne of Green Gables. Margaret Mitchell got her start as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine. What these writers have in common: an excellent sense of character, and the ability to write clean prose that clearly puts forwards the characters' goals and motivations. This ability may well come from having mastered the journalistic art, which emphasizes creating a sound story that balances logic, research and emotional authenticity. Even if you're working in a purely creative world, you can still use those principles, and learn to organize and research like a journalist, and to ask the questions a journalist asks either before or after you write your story.

Story-writing & Journalism

Story-writing & Journalism
Author: Sherwin Cody
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781021310958

First published in 1913, Story-Writing Journalism provides a practical guide to writing effective and engaging news stories. With an emphasis on clear and concise language, Cody's book is a must-read for aspiring journalists and anyone interested in improving their writing skills. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.