How to Write Special Feature Articles: A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents, and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines ... Sections of Newspapers (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from How to Write Special Feature Articles: A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents, and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers

To train students to write articles for newspapers and popular magazines may, perhaps, be regarded by some college instructors in composition as an undertaking scarcely worth their while. They would doubtless prefer to encourage their students to write what is commonly called literature. The fact remains, nevertheless, that the average undergraduate cannot write anything that approximates literature, whereas experience has shown that many students can write acceptable popular articles. Moreover, since the overwhelming majority of Americans read only newspapers and magazines, it is by no means an unimportant task for our universities to train writers to supply the steady demand for well-written articles, The late Walter Hines Page, founder Of the World's Work and former editor of the Atlantic Monthly, presented the whole situation effectively in an article on The Writer and the University, when he wrote.

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