books by Roy Peter Clark

books by Roy Peter Clark

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Roy Peter Clark

Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

Roy Peter Clark

Little, Brown and Company, 2008

Probably the most practical writing improvement guide.
Each chapter contains a tool ("Begin Sentences with subjects and verbs.") and then uses multiple examples to demonstrate how well-known authors have used it sucessfully. It explains why each tool is useful and how it can be abused and/or disregarded for specific ...

Free to Write: A Journalist Teaches Young Writers
Roy Peter Clark

Heinemann, 1995

In a Western society currently focused on test scores, Free to Write is an important step in the direction of the expression of the spirit. - Nieman Reports Free to Write grew from an experiment in a fifth grade classroom into a newspaper article, into a book, and beyond. The book offers hundreds of practical ideas on how to turn elementary ...

The Values and Craft of American Journalism: Essays from the Poynter Institute

University Press of Florida, 2005

Some of the finest minds in the field present a provocative treatise on the practice and promise of journalism today. This book is an idealistic yet practical guide for journalism scholars, analysts, students, and professionals. Reflecting the mission of the Poynter Institute to educate journalists and media leaders to better serve the ...

America's Best Newspaper Writing

Christopher Scanlan, Roy Peter Clark

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000

Terrific anthology!
This is a great anthology for anyone teaching (or learning) journalism or even expository writing. Many of the big names in modern journalism are represented: Rick Bragg, Mitch Albom, Patricia Raybon, Francis X. Clines, Thomas French, William Blundell, Cynthia Gorney, ...

Coaching Writers: Editors and Reporters Working Together Across Media Platforms
Roy Peter Clark, Don Fry

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003

Journalism: The Democratic Craft
G. Stuart Adam, Roy Peter Clark

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

How does an instructor integrate journalism theory and practice in ways that are meaningful to students? G. Stuart Adam and Roy Peter Clark answer this question by combining relevant and engaging readings and practical writing instruction in Journalism: The Democratic Craft. An anthology and textbook in one, this volume enhances students' critical ...

Coaching Writers: Editors and Reporters Working Together

Roy Peter Clark, Don Fry

St. Martin's Press, 1991

Every journalist should read this
An editor recommended this book to me back when I landed my first job on a copy desk. It was an inspiration. I have since moved on to progressively higher positions and am now editor in chief of a big-city daily. I would recommend this book for anyone who seeks an ...

The Changing South of Gene Patterson: Journalism and Civil Rights, 1960-1968 (Southern Dissent)

University Press of Florida, 2002

The Changing South of Gene Patterson celebrates the work of one of America's most influential journalists who wrote in a time and place of dramatic social and political upheaval. The editor of the Atlanta Constitution from 1960 through 1968, Patterson wrote directly to his fellow white southerners every day, working to persuade them to change ...

DO NOT ADD. DO NOT DECEIVE.(Brief Article): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review
Roy Peter Clark, Tom Rosenstiel

Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism, 2000

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