Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers

For Journalists, Editors and Writers

By: Harold Evans

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Paperback | 4 May 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Essential English is a brisk and pungent guide to the use of words as tools of communication. It is written primarily for journalists, yet its lessons are of immense value to all who face the problem of giving information, whether to the general public or within business, professional or social organizations. What makes a good English sentence? How should you rewrite a bad one? What cliches and other word-traps are to be avoided? How do you shorten unnecessarily verbose source-material? How is the essence of what you have to say be conveyed, and placed in proper relation to any background information? These are questions for all. Using a wealth of examples, all drawn from newspapers in Britain and the United States, Essential English is an indispensable guide for all who have to convey information by the written or printed word.

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"Demonstrates how to clear whole jungles of vagueness and verbal clutter" Times Literary Supplement "Every journalist in England should read this exceptional book. Harry Evans is a master of our trade and a master of how to use the English language" -- Piers Morgan "English is the world's most used and abused language. This book in on the side of the angels. It should become an essential textbook for every journalist" -- Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail "Harry Evans is one of the great newspaper professionals of his time, and his book should be a standard text for every journalist" -- Max Hastings, Editor, Evening Standard "Thank God it's back in print. It has never been more necessary" -- John Humphrys

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Foreword to the Pimlico edition	p. ix
Editor's Preface	p. xi
The Making of a Newspaper	p. 1
The Copydesk	p. 2
The Text Editor	p. 4
The Copy-taster	p. 5
The Projection Editor	p. 6
The Revise Editor	p. 7
Standards in Editing	p. 8
What Makes a Good Text Editor?	p. 10
Good English	p. 14
Sentences--Limit the Ideas	p. 17
Be Active	p. 22
Be Positive	p. 25
Avoid Monotony	p. 27
Words	p. 30
Use Specific Words	p. 32
Write with Nouns and Verbs	p. 44
Strike Out Meaningless Modifiers	p. 46
Avoid Needless Repetition	p. 48
Avoid Monologophobia	p. 51
Watch the Prepositions	p. 53
Care for Meanings	p. 56
Avoid Cliches	p. 63
Story Sources of Wordiness	p. 64
Watch this Language	p. 75
Wasteful Words	p. 76
Redundancies	p. 83
Stale Expressions	p. 87
The Structure of a News Story--Intros	p. 91
Chronology	p. 97
Source Obsession	p. 100
Overloading	p. 105
Three Aids to Better Intros	p. 109
Special Intro Problems	p. 114
The Structure of a News Story--The News Lead	p. 121
Action Stories	p. 121
A Good News Narrative	p. 126
Statement-Opinion Stories	p. 132
How the Dailies Handled the Story	p. 135
An American Example	p. 143
Speeches and Reports	p. 147
Running Statement-Opinion Stories	p. 149
Background	p. 162
Background for Intelligibility	p. 162
Background for Interest	p. 178
Story-telling	p. 180
Exercises in Choice of Style	p. 186
News-features Editing	p. 195
Headlines	p. 204
What the News Headline Says	p. 204
The Headline's Purpose	p. 205
How Many Ideas?	p. 208
Grammatical Traps	p. 210
Impartiality	p. 212
Accuracy	p. 213
How the News Headline Says It	p. 214
Verbs	p. 215
Subject Omitted	p. 220
Who's Who	p. 222
Be Specific	p. 224
Saying Where	p. 226
Be Positive	p. 228
Single Thoughts	p. 230
The Key Word	p. 232
Labels That Work	p. 233
Headlines in Practice	p. 235
Free-style Headlines	p. 237
Letting the Words Take Over	p. 239
Good and Bad Puns	p. 240
Feature Headings	p. 241
Specialised Pages	p. 243
Headlinese	p. 244
The Seven Deadly Sins	p. 245
Headline Vocabulary	p. 254
Notes	p. 286
Index	p. 288
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