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How To Write Special Feature Articles / A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers

Chapter 32: PROSE
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This practical handbook instructs reporters, correspondents, and freelance writers in producing popular special-feature articles for newspapers and magazines. It covers preparation, finding subjects and material, determining appeal and purpose, classifying types of articles, writing technique, openings, style, titles and headlines, selling manuscripts, and using illustrations. It emphasizes methods for making specialized knowledge accessible to general readers and includes analyzed, reprinted examples with outlines for practice. The author stresses training in observation, selection, organization, and attractive presentation so novice writers can meet editors' needs and reach a broad readership.

FOR COLLEGE LITERATURE COURSES

HISTORY AND CRITICISM

  • BOTTA—Handbook of Universal Literature.

  • GRUMBINE — Stories from Browning.

  • HINCHMAN AND GUMMERE — Lives of Great English Writers from Chaucer to Browning.

  • MATTHEWS — A Study of Versification.

  • MAYNADIER — The Arthur of the English Poets.

  • PERRY — A Study of Prose Fiction.

  • PERRY — A Study of Poetry.

  • ROOT — The Poetry of Chaucer.

  • SIMONDS —A Student's History of English Literature.

  • SIMONDS — A Student's History of American Literature.

  • BAKER — Dramatic Technique.

  • BROOKE — The Tudor Drama.

  • MATTHEWS — A Study of the Drama.

  • SCHELLING — A History of the Elizabethan Drama. 2 vols.

ANTHOLOGIES - POETRY

  • HOLT — Leading English Poets from Chaucer to Browning.

  • NEILSON AND WEBSTER — The Chief British Poets of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries.

  • PAGE — The Chief American Poets.

  • WESTON — The Chief Middle English Poets.

PROSE

  • ALDEN — Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century.

  • ALDEN — Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century. Part I; Part II; Complete.

  • FOERSTER — The Chief American Prose Writers.

THE DRAMA

  • DICKINSON — Chief Contemporary Dramatists, First Series.

  • DICKINSON — Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series.

  • MATTHEWS — Chief European Dramatists.

  • NEILSON — The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists (except Shakespeare) to the Close of the Theatres.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

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