Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Newspaper language / Nicholas Bagnall. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- What is newspaper language? -- Pardon my Latin -- Who do you think you're talking to? -- Journalism and journalese -- Pseudery -- What's your intro? -- The personal touch -- Pitfalls -- Grammar and punctuation -- A note on statistics -- Tools of the trade -- Glossary of terms -- Index. -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Journalism Authorship, Journalism Editing
Summary
Language is the working capital of the journalist. However well the facts are gathered, however good the ideas, communicating them is the fundamental part of the business. .... [from back cover]
