Training & Resources
Recommended Books
Practical Newspaper Reporting
By David Spark and Geoffrey Harris (Fourth Edition) Now in its fourth edition, this classic textbook has grown up alongside the newspaper industry. Today, as ever, it provides students of newspaper journalism with a toolkit for gathering news and filling ever-increasing space with first-rate copy for print and online.
Mother Tongue: The English Language
Bryson, Bill
Page One: Best of the NNA
English, Kathy & Nick Russell
Getting Your Words Worth
Evans, Rod & Irwin Berent
Sin and Syntax
Hale, Constance
The Word Museum
Kacirk, Jeffrey
The Book on Writing
LaRocque
Dictionary of Obscenity, Taboo & Euphemism
McDonald, James
Page 1: Journalism Excellence: NNA 1999
National Newspaper Awards
A Bawdy Language
Richler, Howard
Cold as a Bay Street Banker's Heart
Thain, Chris
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Truss, Lynne
On Writing Well
Zinsser, William
Other writers on language worth looking for
Theodore Bernstein, Peter Bowler, Ivor Brown, Willard Espy, Ernest Gowers, Philip Howard, Lederer, Richard, Richard Mitchell, Robert MacNeil, Eric Partridge, William Safire.
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