Writing to Deadline: The Journalist at Work

Writing to Deadline takes the reader into the mind of the nonfiction writer, demystifying the process by which journalists clarify confusion and present significant information under demanding restrictions of time and space. This is an essential book for working journalists, professors and students of journalism, directors of newspaper inservice writing programs, and anyone who wants to learn more about:

• the news-writing process
• reporting and writing for surprise
• focusing your story
• draft writing
• editing and fine-tuning
• case studies of real journalists at work.

Combining his knowledge as a composition researcher and theorist with his practical experience as a teacher and journalist, Donald Murray both explains and demonstrates the writing process as he allows the reader to look over his shoulderand the shoulders of other journalistsas they practice the craft of the immediate.

Author: Donald Murray
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Published: 04/20/2000
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.97w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9780325002255


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/2000 pg. 148
Foreword 07/01/2000 pg. 43

About the Author

For nearly 60 years Donald Murray was a tireless explorer, chronicler, and advocate of writers, writing, and the teaching of writing. We are coaches, encouragers, developers, creators of environments in which our students can experience the writing process for themselves, he wrote in 1972. Through the years and over numerous books, academic articles, newspaper columns, classroom handouts, writing conferences, and warm collegial conversations, thousands of students, writers, and teachers benefited from Don's work. Millions more continue to benefit by the wide circle of his influence over the fields of writing, writing instruction, journalism. Some of Don's most important insights about writing and teaching writing are collected in the Heinemann's The Essential Don Murray (edited by Thomas Newkirk and Lisa Miller). A Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, Don was a columnist for The Boston Globe and Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. He was also a writing coach for several national newspapers, wrote poetry for many journals, including Poetry, and authored several books on the craft of writing and teaching writing, including Learning by Teaching, Expecting the Unexpected, Shoptalk, and Crafting a Life in Essay, Story, Poem, and Writing to Deadline. Read article on seacoastonline.com featuring Don Murray >>

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