Adam Garfinkle, David Brooks

Political Writing: A Guide to the Essentials (eBook, PDF)

A Guide to the Essentials

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Writing well, and persuasively, is not only a discipline that can be learned, it is one deeply rooted in the classical arts of rhetoric and polemic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317462538
• Artikelnr.: 42038042

Autorenporträt

Dr. Adam Garfinkle is founding editor of The American Interest. He served from 2003 to 2005 as principal speechwriter to the U.S. Secretary of State (S/P, Policy Planning). Prior to that, he was editor of The National Interest. He has held appointments as professorial lecturer in American foreign policy at the School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. He has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, and other institutions of higher learning.Dr. Garfinkle served as a member of the National Security Study Group (as chief writer) of the U.S. Commission on national Security/21st Century (the Hart-Rudman Commission), and as an aide to Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-WA). His essays have been published in many magazines, journals, and newspapers, and he has appeared on national and international media. Dr. Garfinkle is the recipient of awards and grants from the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright Fellowship Program, the American Academy in Berlin, the German Marshall Fund, the United States Institute of Peace, and the Moshe Dayan Center for the Study of Middle Eastern and African Affairs (Tel Aviv University).Dr. Garfinkle received his Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. He is married and has three children. He resides in Potomac, Maryland.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Fundamentals of Rhetoric and Polemic
Chapter 2 Becoming A Better Writer
Chapter 3 Writing Better Still
Chapter 4 1. And the footnote.
Chapter 5 The Review
Chapter 6 The Op-ed
Chapter 7 Speechwriting
Chapter 8 Letters, Toasts, and Ceremonials
Chapter 9 Memoranda
Chapter 10 Commission Reports
Chapter 11 Blogs
Chapter 12 A Philosophy of Editing
some Some Parting Words