Waterhouse on newspaper style / Keith Waterhouse ; illustrations by Trog.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Viking, 1989Edition: Revised and expanded editionDescription: 250 pages : illustrations ; 19 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 067082626X
- 9780670826261
- 070.4 20
- 808.06607 20
- PN4783 .W37 1989
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 070.4 WAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A324373B |
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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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