When WRITING beckons to you,

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"Some day I'll start"... "I'd like to, but I'm busy." So it is that many who really have writing ability never learn how to make it count.

Today thousands of practical people are meeting the challenge that writing offers by taking instruction from the Newspaper Institute of America. They are finding out things about writing and about themselves that they would never otherwise learn what sort of style they have, what specialized training they need, how to write and how to sell their output.

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