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Fifteen sparkling works of inside-out reportage--"Harper's" own
house brand of "Submersion Journalism"--an unapologetically
aggressive approach to reporting in an age of lies.
""A dazzling intellectual immersion....Consistently challenging,
even demanding, Harper's power is in its ability to cause sometimes
subtle, sometimes seismic shifts in a reader's world
view.""--National Magazine Award citation for General Excellence,
2006
Over the past several years, "Harper's Magazine" has fostered an
exciting brand of journalism, participatory, sometimes even
undercover, in approach. The magazine's correspondents have
infiltrated the Republican machine, from its lowliest canvassing
operation to its corporate and evangelical elite, and they have
posed as shady clients for sleazy blue-chip lobbying firms. They
have shot machine guns, lounged in Vegas brothels, and peered into
secret tunnels in Mexicali. They have terrorized art museums and
touched off worldwide fads.
"Submersion Journalism" collects the best of this reportage--by
celebrated authors (William T. Vollmann, Barbara Ehrenreich) and
fresh new voices (Wells Tower, Jake Silverstein) alike--in a book
that serves not just as a collection of striking stories but also
as a proclamation in favor of truth-telling instead of managed
"news" and PR spin. The book is a defense of the radically
first-person dispatch, filed from exactly those points of view
where a reporter is not supposed to be.
With articles by Charles Bowden, Adam Davidson, Barbara Ehrenreich,
Steve Featherstone, Kristoffer A. Garin, Gary Greenberg, Jay Kirk,
Willem Marx, Morgan Meis, Jeff Sharlet, Jake Silverstein, Ken
Silverstein, Wells Tower, William T.Vollmann, Bill Wasik
Write It Real reduces the writing process to its essential core,
providing prose writers with pragmatic guides directed solely to
improving their words where it matters the most, on the page. This
book covers every aspect governing the inside process of producing
compelling prose. In doing so, it avoids the abstract and
"philosophical" theories of so many writing guides, the nonsense
that loses the reader in the layered, labyrinthine maze of grammar
and technical excess. Valentiâs masterful book focuses instead on
the time-tested, practical strategies that produce tangibleâand
sometimes instantâresults. Write It Real will help writers of all
abilities, from developing to the selling pro, refine their work
into sparkling clarity, and to do it with renewed confidence that
comes from fully understanding how writing works from the inside of
creativity out to the reader. This guidebook combines the best of a
handbook and a "how to" with insights and strategies refined over
decades of the authorâs prolific career as a journalist, writer,
teacher, and speaker. A passionate take on and an illuminating look
at a skill both mysterious and accessible, Write It Realâs 11
chapters take writers through the overlooked (because itâs
obvious) and the obscure (because itâs overlooked). As a prose
prescription, this "Rx" is nothing less than the 21st centuryâs
answer to Strunk and Whiteâs classic, The Elements of Style.
In the past few decades, sustained and overwhelming research
attention has been given to EAL (English as an Additional Language)
scholarsâ English writing and publishing. While this line of
research has shed important light on the scene of global knowledge
production and dissemination, it tends to overlook the less
Anglicized and more locally bound disciplines located at the
academic periphery. This book aimed to fill the gap by examining
the academic enculturation experiences of Chinese archaeologists
through the lens of their disciplinary writing. Consisting of a
situated genre analysis and a multi-case study, the textographic
study disclosed the immense complexity of archaeologistsâ texts,
practices and identities. Important implications were generated for
writing researchers and teachers as well as archaeologists and
other HSS (the humanities and social sciences) scholars. This book
would make a valuable reading for researchers and students of
disciplinary/academic writing, second language writing and literacy
studies.
With the "discursive turn" has come a distrust - a complete
rejection by some - of theories that seek deeper reasons for
surface phenomena. Rong Chen argues that this distrust, with its
accompanying overemphasis on specificity and fluidity of linguistic
meaning and social values, is unwarranted and unhelpful. Drawing on
insights from social theories and various strands of pragmatics, he
proposes a motivation model of pragmatics (MMP), contending that
language use can be adequately, coherently, and elegantly studied
via the motivation behind it in its varied and dynamic contexts.
The model, with its well-laid out components, is then applied to
(im)politeness research, cross-cultural pragmatics, diachronic
pragmatics, discourse and genre analysis, conversation analysis,
identity construction, and the study of metaphor, sarcasm, parody,
and lying. MMP is thus a framework aimed at accounting for fluidity
with stable notions, specificity with general principles, and
differences with similar underlying factors. As such, the book
should appeal to students of pragmatics, (im)politeness,
conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics,
communication, sociology, and psychology.
An accessible guide to the most important academic writing
skills a student needs to write successful undergraduate
dissertations and project reports on any HE course. This book will
give the reader a sound grounding on what the
whole business of dissertation and report writing is about, and
will provide instantaneous, easily accessible answers to specific
questions on all of the most important areas of planning,
researching, writing, revising and referencing a successful
dissertation or report.
This book examines ten major political scandals involving the White
House in the past 50 years, revealing how the investigative
reporters behind the stories uncovered the hidden truths. On
numerous occasions, the dogged efforts of investigative journalists
have led to a dissemination of information that had a direct effect
on the course of American historyâthe Bay of Pigs fiasco, the
Watergate scandal, "Monicagate" of the Clinton administration, and
the Enron accounting scandal. The Inside Stories of Modern
Political Scandals: How Investigative Reporters Have Changed the
Course of American History features in-depth interviews with all
living journalists responsible for revealing major political
scandals involving the White House, including Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein, the reporters responsible for bringing the Watergate
scandal to the light of day. The author presents a fascinating view
into the "story behind the story" regarding the ten most momentous,
modern-day political scandals in America. Containing both anecdotes
from the investigative reporters involved and specific examples
from published articles, this text reveals the specific methods
used by these award-winning journalists to successfully pursue
their stories and earn their titles as watchdogs of our government,
our military, and big business.
A comprehensive and practical guide to writing a successful media
paper or report, from selecting a topic to submitting the final
draft. How to Write about the Media Today is the first book to
offer students and media practitioners a comprehensive approach for
researching and preparing a report, paper, or presentation on some
aspect of today's mass communication. How to Write about the Media
Today begins with a discussion of different types of media
outletsâfrom traditional newspapers and television to the
Internetâas well as an overview of contemporary directions in
media studies. This is followed by a series of step-by-step
strategies for selecting topics, conducting research, and writing
cogently and engagingly about media-related events and issues.
Because each chapter stands on its own, this resource can be read
sequentially or consulted topic-by-topic as needed.
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