THE MAGAZINE ARTICLE - Peter Jacobi .... HARDCOVER BOOK

Your job as a writer is to captivate your audience by making what you have to offer of great interest or importance. This is where your creativity comes in - it's where you make the most of a subject by being original and inventive.

But how do you do that? How can you put yourself in your reader's place and still maintain your own perspective? Here Peter Jacobi shows you how, from the idea to the printed page. You'll begin by exploring eight writing techniques - like perspective freshening, clarity and compression - and then you'll practice those techniques in your article writing. You'll learn by example, analyzing award-winning articles from top publications, including The New Yorker, Playboy and The Atlantic Monthly, just to name a few. You'll also find new ways to turn everyday subjects into compelling article ideas, thirteen 'blueprints' to use as your master plan for outlining an article, and helpful suggestions for using storytelling techniques to humanize your article.

This book will not only motivate and inspire you, it will also help you become a better writer. You'll learn to write with style and flair and verbal excitement - in other words, you'll learn to captivate your audience.

241 pages of great reading!

My late father had collected many fine books - this is one from his estate. He often clipped newspaper articles about books in his collection or their authors, and kept them in the book. Some are included in this book.