The Magazine From Cover to Cover : Inside a Dynamic Industry Review

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(More customer reviews)This book outlines the magazine publishing process from A to Z. For example, it discusses the pros and cons of subscription vs. newsstand sales, marketing, pricing, and even staff salaries. Business plans are outlined and commented on by various sources. Relatively recent magazines to "mainstream/suburban" American culture like VIBE are discussed with the respect they truly deserve. Even the quality of print paper is discussed (i.e. Rolling Stone's page quality/texture and size vs. VIBE's recent move to glossy pages). "The Magazine From Cover To Cover" is hands down, the most contemporary and authoritative guide to the magazine industry that I have come across. Look out for my 'zine, Pop Life coming to a media outlet near you, thanks to this book, and of course...Amazon!
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This fascinating overview examines the planning and organizing of a magazine and its staff and explains editorial, design, production, legal, and ethical issues, as well as industry trends.It shows how magazines reflect and influence the world around them.

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Inside Reporting Review

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(More customer reviews)Newspaper editors bemoan the unpreparedness of the entry-level reporters they hire right out of college. You need only look at the typical college journalism texts to see part of the problem. These ancient tomes read and look as if they were prepared a century ago - and many of them were.
This is not the case with Tim Harrower's "Inside Reporting: A practical guide to the craft of journalism." This amazing book is chock-full of everything that motivated me to become an ink-stained wretch 30 years ago. It's relevant, compelling and interesting in ways you'd never expect from a textbook.
Harrower has written the book not just on reporting, but on how to produce a college textbook on any subject -- with an editing style and design that is absolutely captivating.
This book will do for newspaper reporting what "All the President's Men" did for journalism a generation ago - encourage a whole new generation of young people to take up today's digital tools and get the story.

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This text does for reporting what Tim Harrower's The Newspaper Designer's Handbook has previously done for design: make it fun and accessible to newcomers. Harrower is an award-winning editor, designer and columnist who has previously taught at Portland State University and currently conducts journalism workshops. The second edition of Inside Reporting continues to emphasize the basics but also provides a wealth of information on online reporting and packaging stories in more visual, interactive ways. It also includes more useful information on feature writing--from stories to reviews and column-writing--than any other text in the field.

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Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar (Practice Makes Perfect Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)My son, 9, has completed about one-third of the workbook. I think the workbook is great and effective. Practice really does matter. My son tends not to read the directions or the tip sheets so he often gets many of the answers wrong. So I always have to remind him to read the instructions and the tips and I have him correct his mistakes. There are many worksheets for each subject so there's plenty of practice and the explanations are simple and understandable. When my son completes this workbook I will purchase another for him to complete again to reinforce what the workbook teaches. I would definitely recommend this workbook to anyone.

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Helpful instruction and plenty of practice for your child to understand the basics of grammar and vocabulary

Understanding grammar is essential for your child to speak and write with competence and clarity. Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar gives your child bite-sized explanations of grammar and vocabulary, with engaging exercises that keep her or him motivated and excited to learn. They can practice the grammar skills that are challenging, polish skills they've mastered, and stretch themselves to explore skills they have not yet attempted. This title features 170 activities (plus answer key) that increase in difficulty as your child proceeds through the book.

This book is appropriate for a 4th grade student working above his or her grade level, or as a great review and practice for a struggling 5th or 6th grader.

Your student will learn how to:

Recognize types of sentences
Understand sentence structure
Identify parts of speech
Use punctuation and capitalization together
Find her or his own grammar mistakes

Topics include: Sentences, Nouns, Verbs, Pronouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions and Interjections, Punctuation and Capitalization,Usage and Proofreading

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McGraw-Hill's Proofreading Handbook Review

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(More customer reviews)McGraw-Hill uses the information in this book as a resource for their proofreader-employees and contractors. The information is easy-to-read and understand and is organized for ease-of-reference. This small textbook should be in the library of the professional proofreader or the serious writer.

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Expert advice to perfect your proofreading skills

McGraw-Hill's Proofreading Handbook helps ensure that your documents are letter-perfect, every time. Veteran editor and proofreader Laura Anderson arms you with all the tools of the proofreader's trade and walks you step-by-step through the entire proofreading process.

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