School Newspaper Adviser's Survival Guide by Osborn, Patricia
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School Newspaper Adviser's Survival Guide by Osborn, Patricia

School Newspaper Adviser's Survival Guide

Jossey-Bass
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$29.95

Description

Packed with tested tips, techniques and time-savers--including over 100 reproducible exercises, forms and letters--School Newspaper Adviser's Survival Guide helps you in all aspects of the job--from organizing staff and workspace, and handling production details, to training students in good newswriting style and the journalistic approach. Four sections cover staff organization and mission, newswriting, layout, and time management.

Author: Patricia Osborn
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 12/16/1997
Pages: 420
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.20w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780787966249
ISBN10: 078796624X
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Student Life & Student Affairs
- Social Science | Media Studies
- Education | Teaching | Subjects | Reading & Phonics

About the Author
Patricia Osborn combines experience in education and professional journalism in her background. After majoring in journalism in college, she held positions as newspaper reporter, state editor and advertising copywriter before entering the field of education to become the adviser of award-winning high school newspapers as well as teacher of English and department chairman in Toledo, Ohio, public schools.
Her published works include Reading Smarter; How Grammar Works (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.); Poetry By Doing; and Finding America. She has written articles, short stories and poetry for such magazines as Educational Digest, Gifted Children's Magazine, School Arts, Fine Arts Discovery, Builders, and TV Guide.
Additional experience includes editing an award-winning newsletter, doing volunteer public relations for jazz organizations and serving as judge for the Great Lakes Interscholastic Press Association's annual newspaper contest. She is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English and Journalism Educators Association.
A graduate of Bowling Green State University, Osborn was page editor of the BG News and assistant editor of the yearbook. She also has taken post-graduate course in television writing and production.