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- Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 348 pages)
- Uniform Title
- Words matter (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Writing to make a difference
- Subject
- Note
- A collection of essays by 28 contributors, all of whom were students of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia earlier in their careers.
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- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Part I. Profiles of people, places, and issues. The Miranda obsession / Bryan Burrough ; Harvey's two families / Ken Fuson ; The price of football fame / Wright Thompson ; The view from within / Seth Wickersham ; Confronting a different kind of loss / Jane Gordon Julien ; Vinyl hero / Doug Meigs ; Rewrite / Robert Sanchez ; Skid row karaoke / Randall Roberts ; Sexuality: a view from the chair / Kevin Dubouis ; A persistent culture of poverty / Simina Mistreanu ; The big payback / Pate McMichael ; When daddy comes home / Walt Harrington ; The town that blew away / Justin Heckert -- Part II. First-person journalism. Caught up in history's stormy wake with Ethel Kennedy / Mary McNamara ; To just stay alive / Robert Langellier ; Video games with a refugee / Sean McLachlan ; Reaming the cube / Jason Effmann ; A sad thought danced / Suan Pineda ; These mountains eat men / Sara Shahriari -- Part III. Personal stories and memoirs. Faye's ashes / Shane Epping ; Afghanistan: a long road home / Lois Raimondo ; Engaging social responsibility / Besa Luci ; Without completely falling apart / Jessi Hamilton ; When nationalism trumps race / Melanie Coffee ; Soul train on mute / Michaella A. Thornton ; 1202 Park Avenue, 1999 / Sona Pai -- Afterword: Defeating that crippling sense of inadequacy / Ginger Harvey -- Last words / Mary Kay Blakely.
- LCCN
- 2015930027
- OCLC
- ssj0002005052
- Title
Words matter [electronic resource] : writing to make a difference / edited by Amanda Dahling and Mary Kay Blakely.
- Imprint
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2016]
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Dahling, Amanda.
Blakely, Mary Kay, 1948-
University of Missouri--Columbia. School of Journalism.