Non-Fiction Writing, Volumes I and II

If article and feature writing is the arena that beckons you, these two volumes will inform, support, and challenge you. They start off by reminding you that everyone writes non-fiction (if only in the form of e-mail) and everyone reads it (if only the instructions on a package of detergent). It's an omnipresent ingredient of mass communications. Whatever your goals in writing non-fiction -- to persuade, inform, amuse, or inflame your reader -- you'll find the necessary guidance in these two volumes. They concentrate on five major categories of non-fiction: writing about people; stories on self-help, popular science and health; articles for special markets like travel or outdoor magazines and house organs; trade and technical articles; and non-fiction books on a wide range of subjects. These books teach you how to research a story, to interview, to outline, and to present facts without bias. No matter what direction your writing talent takes you, these skills and the many pointers in these two volumes will be invaluable to you.

Volume I, 250 pages, includes these chapters:
 Defining non-fiction
 What to write about
 Six keys to non-fiction
 Techniques of research
 Case histories of research
 Techniques of interviewing
 How to prepare outlines
 Case history of an article: I
 Case history of an article: II
 Reading for writing