Business and Technical Communication: A Guide to Writing Professionally

Author(s): Maribeth Schlobohm, Christopher Ryan

Business and Technical Communication: A Guide to Writing Professionally provides a communication foundation for professionals in business and technical industries. This text aims to guide those whose roles do not exclusively require writing and editing but whose day-to-day responsibilities demand th...

The Journalist's Primer: A No-Nonsense Guide to Getting and Reporting the News

Author(s): Mark P. Hanebutt

The face of journalism has changed. The evening news is rife with personality, commentary, and political polarization. Blogs are doubling as news sites, and anybody with a cell phone thinks he's a journalist. Citizens say they can no longer tell fake news from real news, fact from opinion. As a resu...

Women in Journalism History: Coming up from the Footnotes

Author(s): KIMBERLY VOSS

Media & Crime: Contemporary Issues

Author(s): Allen Copenhaver, Andrew Denney

Media & Crime: Contemporary Issues offers an in-depth discussion of contemporary crime and media issues. Specifically, this book is the first of its kind to examine crime and media issues from a modern and approachable standpoint. Moreover, this book heavily focuses on how various forms of media int...

Media, News, & Consumers: Exploring Media Literacy and Journalistic Responsibility

Author(s): KEITH HERNDON

Media, News, & Consumers: Exploring Media Literacy and Journalistic Responsibility is a collection of curated research, articles and essays.The material in Media, News, & Consumers: Exploring Media Literacy and Journalistic Responsibility, provides necessary context for a course about media literacy...

Becoming A Better University Writer

Author(s): Paul McCormick

Becoming a Better University Writer features twenty-seven concise essays on all aspects of the first-year writing process, from time management to sentence variety, from annotated bibliographies to  managing writer's block. Each essay includes a short writing exercise designed to reinforce its respe...

Technical Writing, Simplified!

Author(s): Mary M Sylwester, Nell W Johnson

Principles of News

Author(s): Cornelius F. Foote Jr.

Principles of News is a primer for any student interested in learning more about how rise of digital media over the past 25 years has drastically changed the landscape for how journalists report, write, produce and distribute news.  Students will learn some of the fundamentals about  how news organi...

ideapower: A Practical Guide to Building Winning Public Relations Campaigns

Author(s): Charles O Kaufman

ideapower aims to stimulate learning, develop creative and strategic thinking, and to build an assortment of useful skills that will help the reader reach campaign and career goals. It combines public relations theory with practical discussions about multistep processes that will boost conceiving, p...

Journalism/Communications Arts I: Mass Media and Society: Study Guide/Workbook

Author(s): TIMOTHY POSADA, J Michael Reed

Based on more than 30 years of college-level research, teaching experience, and feedback from students, the new 6th edition of Tim Posada and J. Michael Reed’s Mass Media and Society Study Guide / Workbook is designed for transfer students to any four-year college or university as a communications /...