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Waterhouse on newspaper style / Keith Waterhouse ; illustrations by Trog.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Viking, 1989Edition: Revised and expanded editionDescription: 250 pages : illustrations ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 067082626X
  • 9780670826261
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Waterhouse on newspaper style.; No titleDDC classification:
  • 070.4 20
  • 808.06607 20
LOC classification:
  • PN4783 .W37 1989
Contents:
Adjectives -- Alliteration -- And now -- The asthmatic comma -- Captions -- Catchwords -- Clichés (standard) -- Clichés (trade) -- Compression -- Consequences -- Crossheads -- Dead letters -- Dots and dashes -- Dramatic events drama -- Facetiousness -- Free speech -- Grammar -- Great minds -- How say you? -- Hyphens -- Illiterals -- Imaginary rules -- The incredible blob -- Inelegant variation -- The intro -- I say, I say -- Italic and bold -- Jargon -- Journalese -- Just-so stories -- Kneejerks -- Lists -- Little by little -- Metaphor and simile -- More haste -- Not only but also -- The numbers game -- Officialese -- Oh, really? -- Ooh la la -- Paragraphs -- The pay-off -- Person to person -- Polysyllables -- Possessions -- Puns and wordplay -- Quote unquote -- Ramboism -- Rank and file -- Says who? -- Screamers! -- Sexism -- Sex romps -- Stagger off -- Supernumeraries -- Tabloidese -- Tautology -- The tops -- The weather-vane -- Waht rot -- Which is that? -- What is style?
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 070.4 WAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A324373B

Previous edition: published as Daily mirror style. London : Mirror, 1981.

Adjectives -- Alliteration -- And now -- The asthmatic comma -- Captions -- Catchwords -- Clichés (standard) -- Clichés (trade) -- Compression -- Consequences -- Crossheads -- Dead letters -- Dots and dashes -- Dramatic events drama -- Facetiousness -- Free speech -- Grammar -- Great minds -- How say you? -- Hyphens -- Illiterals -- Imaginary rules -- The incredible blob -- Inelegant variation -- The intro -- I say, I say -- Italic and bold -- Jargon -- Journalese -- Just-so stories -- Kneejerks -- Lists -- Little by little -- Metaphor and simile -- More haste -- Not only but also -- The numbers game -- Officialese -- Oh, really? -- Ooh la la -- Paragraphs -- The pay-off -- Person to person -- Polysyllables -- Possessions -- Puns and wordplay -- Quote unquote -- Ramboism -- Rank and file -- Says who? -- Screamers! -- Sexism -- Sex romps -- Stagger off -- Supernumeraries -- Tabloidese -- Tautology -- The tops -- The weather-vane -- Waht rot -- Which is that? -- What is style?

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