Abstract
Winners and Sinners from the New York Times has spawned a new genre of newsletters: the in-house letter focusing on writing quality. This study compared the content of these newsletters with what writing coaches have said are the major writing problems. Findings indicate the newsletters may need refocusing. While coaches said newswriters' chief problems are conceptual writing improvements, newsletters focus on mechanics such as spelling and grammar.
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