Broadcast Writing: Principles and Practices

By Roger L Walters

Broadcast Writing is a well-received, successful text that has been recommended by the Broadcast Educators Association in its suggested syllabus for courses covering all areas of writing for broadcast... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070680310
• ISBN13: 9780070680319
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.1" x 0.9" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

Good comprehensive text for brodcast scriptwriting

There are many good texts in newswriting out there, but few which are as comprehensive in all areas of media as this one. I teach a course in broadcast scriptwriting at a community college with the intention of trying to cover as many different formats as possible, e.g., newswriting, commercials, talk-interview, documentary, dramatic narrative, informational, etc. for both radio,TV and film. This text covers all of these and offers both solid theoretical background as well as plenty of real world examples. I do recommend substituting the dramatic narrative chapter with a specialized text for screenplay writing, but it covers the basics. My only real complaint is that it is starting to get a bit out of date. But it is still the best I've come across and better than the Robert Hilliard text, in my opinion.