Exercises in Media Writing offers students multiple opportunities to practice their writing skills in-class or as take-home assignments. Each chapter includes review questions and writing-prompt activities to help students master the concepts and skills presented in Vincent F. Filak’s second edition of Dynamics of Media Writing. Additional exercises built around the unique demands of online newswriting will prepare students to meet the demands of a changing media landscape.
Key Features:
- Review Questions help students recall and master core chapter concepts
- Writing Exercises enable students to recall and demonstrate their understanding of various elements found in each chapter in Dynamics of Media Writing, Second Edition.
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Table of Content
Chapter 1. Audience-Centric MediaChapter 2. Being Accurate, Relying on the Facts
Chapter 3. Grammar, Style and Language Basics
Chapter 4. Basic Writing
Chapter 5. Interviewing
Chapter 6. Writing on the Web
Chapter 7. Social Media
Chapter 8. Law and Ethics
Chapter 9. Reporting: The Basics and Beyond
Chapter 10. Writing for Traditional Print News Products
Chapter 11. Writing for Broadcast
Chapter 12. Public Relations
Chapter 13. Advertising
Chapter 14. Marketing
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About the author
Vincent F. Filak, Ph.D., is an award-winning teacher and scholar who serves as a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where he primarily teaches courses on media writing and reporting. Prior to his arrival at UWO, he served on the faculty at Ball State University and also taught courses at the University of Missouri and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He also previously worked for the Wisconsin State Journal and the Columbia Missourian newspapers. He was also unanimously voted and selected as the next editor of Journalism & Mass Communication Educator by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.The Associated Collegiate Press honored him as part of the organization’s inaugural class of Pioneer Award Winners in 2022. The Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication presented him with the Educator of the Year award in 2021, a year after he was honored by the National Society of Leadership and Success with an Excellence in Teaching award. In 2019, he received the Friend of KEMPA award for his work with high school journalism students through the Kettle Moraine Press Association. In addition, he has received awards from the College Media Association (CMA) and the National Scholastic Press Association for his work as a college media adviser and a mentor to high school journalists.As a scholar, Filak has received thirteen top conference paper awards, including those from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the Broadcast Education Association, and the International Public Relations Society of America. He has published more than thirty scholarly, peer-reviewed articles in top-tier journals, including Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, the Newspaper Research Journal, the Atlantic Journal of Communication, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, the Howard Journal of Communication, Educational Psychology, and the British Journal of Social Psychology. He is also the winner of CMA’s Nordin Research Award, which goes to the best research paper completed on a topic pertaining to media advisers within a given year.He has published several textbooks in the field of journalism, including Dynamics of Media Writing (SAGE), Dynamics of News Reporting and Writing (SAGE), Dynamics of Media Editing (SAGE), Convergent Journalism (Focal), and The Journalist’s Handbook to Online Editing (with Kenneth Rosenauer; Pearson). He also blogs about media-related topics at Dynamics Of Writing.com.xxiv He lives outside Auroraville, Wisconsin, with his wife, Amy, and their daughter, Zoe.
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