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Writing Opinion for Impact

Name: Writing Opinion for Impact
Author: Conrad C. Fink
ISBN: 9780813826066

by Conrad C. Fink

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Overview

Good Editorial Writing has the potential to start a war -- or avoid one. Is it any wonder even the most experienced journalists find opinion writing important and fascinating? In this lively, practical book, author Conrad Fink provides the necessary guidance for translating the basics into opinion writing that is reasoned, forceful, responsible, engaging and readable. Today, newspapers and magazines publish writing very similar in substance, style and structure. Writing Opinion for Impact will therefore be valuable to students of opinion and editorial writing, critical writing, and personalized feature and column writing for newspapers and magazines alike.

About the Author, Conrad C. Fink

Conrad C. Fink, is Professor, William S. Morris Chair of Newspaper Strategy and Management at the University of Georgia Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication., and director of the James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Newspaper Management Studies. Widely experienced in both the newspaper industry and academe, Professor Fink is the author of eight journalism textbooks.