Essential English by Evans, Harold -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Foreword to the Pimlico edition Editor’s Preface 1

The Making of a Newspaper

The Copydesk The Text Editor The Copy-taster The Projection Editor The Revise Editor Standards in Editing What Makes a Good Text Editor?

Good English

Sentences – Limit the Ideas Be Active Be Positive Avoid Monotony

Words

Use Specific Words Write with Nouns and Verbs Strike Out Meaningless Modifiers Avoid Needless Repetition Avoid Monologophobia Watch the Prepositions Care for Meanings Avoid Clichés Story Sources of Wordiness

Watch this Language

Wasteful Words Redundancies Stale Expressions

The Structure of a News Story – Intros

Chronology Source Obsession Overloading Three Aids to Better Intros Special Intro Problems

The Structure of a News Story – The News Lead

Action Stories A Good News Narrative Statement–Opinion Stories How the Dailies Handled the Story An American Example Speeches and Reports Running Statement–Opinion Stories

Background

Background for Intelligibility Background for Interest Story-telling Exercises in Choice of Style News-features Editing

Headlines

What the News Headline Says The Headline’s Purpose How Many Ideas? Grammatical Traps Impartiality Accuracy How the News Headline Says It Verbs Subject Omitted Who’s Who Be Specific Saying Where Be Positive Single Thoughts The Key Word Labels That Work Headlines in Practice Free-style Headlines Letting the Words Take Over Good and Bad Puns Feature Headings Specialised Pages Headlinese The Seven Deadly Sins

Headline Vocabulary

Notes Index