Entertainment writers are often faced with the challenge of reviewing an unfamiliar work. Whether movies or sculpture, art or architecture, this book guides the writer through the steps necessary to produce an acceptable review of these arts, as well as television, literature, drama, dance, and music. Using current illustrations from a variety of newspapers, the author shows how the pros deal with the arts, as well as pointing out the problems students...
This book is actually Dr. Campbell Titchener's Feature Writing class lecture notes transcribed, and it is quite good. It's also useful for working newspaper folks to use as a reference book, to remind themselves, for instance, to include all the necessary components for a review of specific sorts of artistic endeavors.Dr. Titchener read aloud much student work in the class I took, and he pulled no punches in evaluating the...
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