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- Title
Students learn as they design special stylebook.
- Authors
Sneed, Don
- Abstract
In this article the author presents his views on the growing need for specialized style manuals for journalists and the role of students in compiling them. According to the author students in news writing class should be assigned to compile a specialized style manual. These kind of projects allows journalism majors, including many who do not intend to pursue newspaper careers, to practice interviewing, do research using primary and secondary sources, edit and write a manuscript and create a publication that is more enduring than most news stories. In such exercises students study the structure of an existing stylebook. They quickly see that a stylebook is an alphabetical listing of guides to capitalization, punctuation, spelling and usage or definitions.
- Subjects
JOURNALISM education; JOURNALISM style manuals; TECHNICAL manuals; JOURNALISM writing; CAPITALIZATION (Writing); TEACHING methods
- Publication
Journalism Educator, 1985, Vol 40, Issue 2, p36
- ISSN
0022-5517
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/107769588504000213