Elements of Journalism

The plan of this book is simple: Here is a clean-cut principle of journalism; this is the way masters of the craft have applied it; now you experiment. Each chapter of this manual, while undertaking to get the student to write, also attempts to give him a sense of power over a single problem. This feeling of power through mastery of principles step by step is no mean factor in stimulating continued growth. Each development is stripped bare of ornament, for the author believes that students learn more from reading many models and then trying their wings over the same airway than from reading tons of pages of advice on the matter. No wonder the reviewers have often referred to this book as a “Practical” course in journalism.