Free iBook Targets New Writers, Missionaries, Christian Journalists

Two journalism professors from Christian universities have teamed up to make a short ebook for iPad or iPhone that uses interactive content to help new writers snag a byline.

A One-Step Guide to a Byline is designed for new writers who want to know the bare minimum for writing an article for the popular press. It uses roll-over features, an interactive quiz, and 8 videos to help writers succeed, says Michael Ray Smith, project director and professor of communication from Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC.

Smith joined Wally Metts (@wallymetts), director of graduate studies in communication at Spring Arbor University, Spring Arbor, MI, to make a fun, user-friendly book with enhanced content about the basics of writing. The “one-step” is finding the essential conflict that drives a good story.

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Also see our previous blogpost, “Guy Kawasaki's New Self-Publishing Instruction Book.”

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