The bigger picture
Subtitle: elements of feature writing
By: edited by Ivor Shapiro
Publisher: E. Montgomery Publications
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781552392805
Subjects: Feature writing; Journalism; Authorship; Journalisme; Art d'écrire
Description: A combination manual and reader, this book offers a comprehensive overview of practical skills complemented by full-length examples of some of the best work in the genre. The chapters are written by a team of seasoned journalists and educators, and the readings have been carefully chosen to help illustrate a specific skill or approach. This book will inform and inspire feature writers at every level.-- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A world of ideas: the birth of a feature / Philip Preville; title: "The ketchup conundrum" / Malcolm Gladwell; title: Perfect pitch, or how I learned to love rejection / Matthew Hays; title: "My year of living dangerously" / Katrina Onstad; title: The great quest: researching feature stories / Sue Ferguson; title: "The golden bough" / John Vaillant; title: Telling pictures: reporting and reconstructing scenes / David Hayes; title: "Die hard" / David Hayes; title: Anecdotal evidence: interviewing to tell a story / Don Gibb; title: "The fight for their lives" / Aaron Derfel; title: Going deep: immersion reporting / Linda Kay; title: "Living on lobster time" / Philip Preville; title: Building the beast: approaches to structure / Paul Benedetti; title: "The sixty-storey crisis" / Anne Mullens; title: Required elements: details of structure / Susan McClelland; title: "When animals attack!" / Bruce Grierson; title: Doing it in style: the feature writer's art / Moira Farr; title: "The Persian dub" / Abou Farman; title: Truth and the storyteller: ethics in non-fiction / Ivor Shapiro; title: "Into the valley of death" / Stephanie Nolen.