Product Description
by Marda Dunsky (Author)
Watch Your Words is a brief, accessible writing and editing guide for students and professionals in journalism. The fifth edition includes the latest AP style updates, discussion of inclusive language and implicit bias, and sections on accuracy and fact-checking, brevity, clarity, and use of direct quotations, with exercises and an editing guide.
Author Biography
Marda Dunsky, a print journalist and journalism scholar, is an assistant professor in residence at Northwestern University in Qatar. Dunsky has 15 years of service at Northwestern University in Evanston. As a member of the Medill School of Journalism faculty, she has taught print editing, basic reporting, global journalism, and a seminar of her design, "Reporting the Arab and Muslim Worlds." She has also served as an adviser to international students in the Medill MSJ program. She has held editing and reporting positions at newspapers including source and copy editor on the national-foreign news desk of the Chicago Tribune and Arab affairs reporter at The Jerusalem Post.
