Murray, Donald Morison

Presents a comprehensive handbook designed to help students develop effective writing skills and provides writing activities and tips on revisions and editing, research, and utilizing the Internet.

Offers step-by-step instructions for developing effective writing skills.

Examines the craft of the reporter and writer, and the art of the journalist; describes the instincts a journalist must have for ferreting out the news; and discusses a variety of topics as they relate to journalistic writing, such as focus, the draft, development, and clarity. Includes interviews with working journalists.

Contains twenty-four articles written since 1982 in which the author, a retired English professor, explores various aspects of the process of writing and teaching writing.