Techniques of writing

The technical of writing , inspired by the courses of Journalism, make it possible to bring closer a text to its initial objective: to inform (journalism), to distract (Literature), to sell (Publicity), to divide (testimony), etc Many and seldom formulated consciously by the majority of the writers, they evolve/move with the language and the trades of the writing.

In this direction, they interest all the literary categories, insofar as the author seeks a certain effectiveness. Although extremely many, one can outline four nonexhaustive categories.

; 1 - Journalism coded modern technologies

It is considered that at the origin, the journalistic writing rules aim at the Information readers. The techniques are thus turned towards this objective, while following rules of legibility, rigor of writing (without speaking about the checking of the facts), hierarchy of the elements to present initially most important. One of the first journalistic writing rules consists in concentrating information in an informative sentence while answering the “5W”, these five English questions often translated by six interrogations: who, what, where, when, how (and why)? The objective deontologic of this kind remains the ideal of the truth. The constraints, many, see in priority the lack of place of diffusion in competition with the crowd of information to be transmitted. From where need for operating a choice by decreasing hierarchy of information, and utility to titrate each one precisely in order to accelerate the consultation of the subjects in the interest of the reader.

; 2 - The origin of the techniques in the literature

On its side, the Littérature uses, since the birth of the written language (Written form), its narrative techniques in the layman or crowned: beauty of style, instrumentation of the Suspense, imagination and imagination of the characters and the situations, lexical use of register varied and contrasted, coding of the expression according to the degree of initiation, etc

The objective proven being to collect the attention of the reader by the pleasure of reading: beauty of the language, captivating scenario, depth of the emotion S, power of the Ideology S or beliefs, etc the explosion of the literary market testifies to the flowering of the interests for the pleasure of reading, and of the space offered to all the authors who wish to invent or try out new processes of writing. In this direction, the cartoon recalls the origin of the writing, and proceeds in a manner which inevitably points out the scribes of Egypt and lithogravures prehistoric.

; 3 - The know-how of traditional diffusers

If their competences leave the strict editorial techniques, the professionals of the publication (book publishers and newspapers), left a mark of their know-how in the writing, in particular by the adoption of typographical rules . Others, like the advertizing , added their skill to present the text according to a page layout and a developing graphics.

; 4 - Innovations of diffusion Internet

As for the new electronic media, and the explosion of the production written in the form of Blog S, they also saw being born a clean universe of techniques, influenced by the data-processing procedures, but also by the mode of consumption of texts read on screen of computer. For example, the analysis of the behaviors of reading on the Toile takes account of physical tiredness larger than with a book (optical nerve, electromagnetic radiation, noise, sitting position), or inaccurate nature of the Net surfer finding his pleasure and its interest to sail from one site to another, in a vast competition of all the kinds. Without forgetting the interactive advantage which makes it possible the author to exchange with his readers.

External bonds

a course of information theory by Louis Wehenkel
Extracted the courses of journalistic and literary techniques of writing per Martin Bohn

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