Discusses the techniques of writing announcements, talk shows, and documentaries, as well as dramatic programs

Writing Scripts for Television, Radio, and Film

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Willis, Edgar E.

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

<p>Discusses the techniques of writing announcements, talk shows, and documentaries, as well as dramatic programs</p>

D'Arienzo, Camille

Literature & Fiction

Harcourt College Pub.

This work offers basic information on the appropriate technologies for television, cable and radio.

Television, Cable, and Radio: A Communications Approach

Aldridge, Henry B.

Business & Money

Pearson College Div

How to Be Funny on Purpose

<p>For centuries illustrious thinkers have speculated about what inspires the beguiling and uplifting sound of laughter. With their ideas in mind, Edgar Willis takes an innovative and sometimes startling approach to the subject. Its key element is a precise and practical set of instructions for turning the momentary flicker of an idea into a full-fledged and funny joke. He provides further enrichment with lively discussions of such relevant topics as: good jokes and bad ones, the often hilarious consequences of unintended humor, and the perils of being funny. Richard L. Weaver II adds informed insights into using the Internet to find and develop jokes. The result is a book of extraordinary reach and dimension. The tone is erudite without being stuffy. He uses hundreds of jokes to illustrate techniques of jokemaking and shares anecdotes about his adventures and misadventures with humor.The probing analyses of humor's complexities will challenge your capacity to perceive and understand. The value of this book to aspiring humorists is obvious. It can also guide teachers, preachers, and public speakers into using humor to add zest and attention-holding power to their presentations. Most importantly it can amplify the response and sharpen the appreciation of people who relish hearing funny stories, and that includes almost everyone. They have laughed at jokes before, but having read this book, they will laugh louder, for now they will know why they are laughing.</p>

Humor & Entertainment

Weaver, Richard L.

Humor

Cybercom Pub Inc

This book pulls aside the curtains that normally shield the halls of academe and reveals a world occupied by fascinating and vividly portrayed characters who are impelled by the same passions, aspirations, and ideals that motivate all of humankind. Among them are a university president, whose overriding concern is the welfare of the football team, a lowly assistant professor who, desperate to win the security of tenure, fakes the results of a research study, and some students who cheat to improve their exam scores. Another student plays a significant role in the story when she unwittingly opens the eyes of a university administrator to the malicious schemes of a department chairman who is willing to use any means to win promotion to a deanship, seeing it as an essential step toward the realization of his dream of becoming a university president. This richly textured story is marked by astonishing twists and turns, and, in the end, lives are dramatically changed. Some reach their goals; others let them slip away.

Moss on the Ivory Tower: A Novel of Mystery and Intrigue

Literary

And Then Some Publishing, LLC

The author writes: This memoir of World War II is unique. Instead of proceeding chronologically, it focuses on how a civilian with no military experience, converted overnight into a naval officer, reacted to the strange new world of the navy. To my surprise I found out, for example, that I would have to pay for my meals out of the salary the navy paid me. I also discuss somewhat weightier subjects such as the place of African-Americans in the World War II navy, the extreme steps the navy took to keep officers and enlisted men apart and the measures it adopted to control sexual activity. I also expose two utterly different ways in which two captains of the battle cruiser "Alaska", on which I served as its fighter director, carried out their command responsibilities. The objective of the first captain seemed to be to make the life of the men he commanded as difficult and burdensome as he could, the objective of the second to make their life as easy and comfortable as possible. In the background of all this is the prospect and actuality of furious combat. The "Alaska" received battle stars for participating in the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. During the battles, the skies were filled with Japanese suicide bombers intent on sinking American ships. They succeeded in sending more than 300 of them to the bottom of the Pacific. The "Alaska" was just a few hundred yards from the carrier "Franklin" when it was hit. The resulting explosions killed almost 800 young Americans. Near the end of the war, the "Alaska" was anchored next to the battleship "Pennsylvania" when it was struck by an aerial torpedo, causing the loss of more young lives. After the peace treaty was signed, the men of the "Alaska" had a new kind of experience when the ship was sent to Tsingtau, China, to accept the surrender of a Japanese army.

Civilian in an Ill-Fitting Uniform: A Memoir of World War II

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

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