The Style Book Of The Detroit News, edited by A. L. Weeks
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About this eBook
- Author
- Detroit news
- Title
- The Style Book of The Detroit News
- Credits
- Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Z: Bibliography, Library science
- Subject
- Journalism -- Style manuals
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 32997
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32997
- Release Date
- June 27, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Style Book of the Detroit News
- 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 3.THE AIM OF THE DETROIT NEWS
- 4.INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORTERS — BE TRUE
- 5.INSTRUCTIONS TO COPY READERS — LEARNING THE METIER
- 6.PREPARING COPY
- 7.LEADS — THE CUTTLEFISH
- 8.HEADS — GRAMMAR — SIMPLICITY — NOTES
- 9.DICTION — THE GRIT OF COMPACT, CLEAR TRUTH
- 10.A. P. STYLE — BROADEN THE VOCABULARY — THE PICTORIAL POWER OF WORDS
- 11.CAPITALIZATION — NOTES
- 12.PUNCTUATION — THREE RULES
- 13.QUOTATIONS — OBSERVATION
- 14.NOUNS — THE JOURNALIST'S CREED — By WALTER WILLIAMS — NOTES
- 15.PRONOUNS
- 16.CONJUNCTIONS
- 17.VERBS — BARRED BY THE SUN — DOUBLING UP HAVE'S — NOTES
- 18.ADVERBS
- 19.ADJECTIVES — YOUR AUDIENCE — NOTES
- 20.PREPOSITIONS
- 21.ARTICLES
- 22.NUMBERS
- 23.ROMAN NUMERALS
- 24.WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
- 25.ABBREVIATION
- 26.NAMES AND TITLES
- 27.JEW AND HEBREW — NOTES
- 28.CHURCH TITLES
- 29.COMPOUNDS
- 30.SUPERFLUOUS WORDS
- 31.VITAL STATISTICS — A DICTIONARY
- 32.SPELLING
- 33.POPULAR NAMES OF RAILROADS — NOTES
- 34.DO AND DON'T — DANA'S EIGHT RULES
- 35.THE CANNERY — A NEWSPAPER DICTIONARY — CLARITY, FORCE, GRACE
- 36.MICHIGAN INSTITUTIONS
- 37.ARMY AND NAVY ORGANIZATION — THE WAY TO BECOME ORIGINAL
- 38.DATES OFTEN CALLED FOR — NOTES
- 39.THE LAW OF LIBEL — ACTIONABLE LANGUAGE — OBJECTIONABLE PUBLISHED CHARGES — CHARGING WITH A CRIME — THE THREE DEFENSES — PRIVILEGED PUBLICATIONS — CRITICISM DOES NOT EXTEND TO PERSON — ABSENCE OF ACTUAL MALICE — PRECISION, SIMPLICITY, EUPHONY
- 40.FIRST THREE YEARS OF THE WAR — NOTES
- 41.INDEX — Transcriber's Note:
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