ETHICS

A doctor who prescribes an illegal medicine could lose his license, and a lawyer who mislead a client, may be guilty of violating a code of ethics. But a reporter may win a Pulitzer Prize. The power to license or regulate is the power to censor. So it's crucial as you are revising your writing to reflect on how it came to be.

LIBEL

A reporter handles a valuable and fragile possession, a person's reputation in writing the news. You always have to make sure your not going to injure someone's reputation. Here are some things to look for: "false" is the key word, be certain you can prove what you publish. Another can be, your false report is priveileged you will be guilty of libel.

GETTING IT RIGHT-PART 2

A careful writer is precise. A writer must be just as selective with her/his words. To make sure presice ask yourself these questions. Are my sentences simple and strong? You have to rely on strong nous and verbs, not a adjectives and adverbs. Or have i been concise? Use short words instead of long, the familiar to the not so familiar, the specific to the abstract.

GETTING IT RIGHT-PART 1

Practice makes perfect when your playing baseball so it is with writing. Writing takes practice. "What you have written is only presparation for what you are going to write, said former Wall Street Journal. Here are some ways to improve your first draft: read your story out loud, check to make sure your sentences are not too long.