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Headlines and Deadlines : A Manual for Copy Editors /

Garst, Robert E.

Headlines and Deadlines : A Manual for Copy Editors / Theodore M. Bernstein, Robert E. Garst. - 1 online resource

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note from the Publisher -- Foreword / Preface -- Part One. Copy -- 1. Newspaper Organization -- 2. The Copy Editor -- 3. Editing the Copy -- 4. Electronic Editing -- 5. Abused Words -- Part Two. The Headline -- 6. What the Headline Is -- 7. How the Headline Looks -- 8. What the Headline Says -- 9. How the Headline Says It -- 10. A Clinic for Ailing Headlines -- 11. A Headline Vocabulary of Related Words -- A Glossary of Newspaper Terms -- Index Barrett, Edward W. --

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A handbook meant to explain the technique of copy editing and the best standards of the metropolitan press to journalists. Includes a section on editing copies and another on writing headlines, with a condensed list of 'abused words' and 'headline vocabulary of related words' appended.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780231913782 9780231883443

10.7312/gars91378 doi


LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Editing & Proofreading.