Product Description: Aimed at those pursuing careers in journalistic writing, this is the definitive handbook for aspiring journalists. Offering budding writers suggestions on how to improve their skills—even when faced with a tight deadline—this guide also reviews many elements essential to the occupation such as utilizing strong nouns and verbs, paring down adjectives and adverbs, describing with concrete detail and avoiding clichés and the passive voice...read more

Product Description: Offering aspiring authors dependable skills beyond the high school classroom, this reference covers the essentials of composing superior prose. Clear instructions on all aspects are featured, including approaching a topic, penning a solid introduction, bringing a story together, and editing for precision...read more

Product Description: In 1968 a young photographer named Robert M. Knight arrived in Seattle with a camera and a single roll of film to shoot local legend Jimi Hendrix. The photographs Knight took seized the uncanny energy of Hendrix, recording his primal performance and adrenaline driven solos that tantalized audiences...read more

Product Description: To write well, you must write clearly. And to write clearly, you must practice. In A Journalistic Approach to Good Writing, Robert Knight, a veteran journalist, uses an easy, engaging, often humorous style to present the fundamentals of journalistic writing...read more