Description: Championship Writing is a collection of 50 columns LaRocque wrote for Quill magazine, the publication of the Society of Professional Journalists. Together, the columns make a unified, comprehensive guide to good writing. Topics covered range from how to use commas properly to the importance of conciseness to adding creativity to non-fiction writing.The columns are written in LaRocque's smooth, humorous style. They were originally written for professional journalists, so readers are assured that the information is top notch. The book is fun to browse or read cover-to-cover, and writers learn lessons they'll use the rest of their careers.Championship Writing is being promoted with advertising in Writers & Poets, The Writer, and The Writer's Chronicle.Paula LaRocque is the former writing coach and assistant managing editor of the Dallas Morning News. Previously she was the writing coach to the Associated Press Washington Bureau, and she is slated to become president of Associated Press Managing Editors association in 2004. The author live in Dallas.

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