epub |eng | 2020-05-17 | Author:McCarthy, Michael [McCarthy, Michael]

H- IN WORDS LIKE HISTORIC AND HOTEL I’m often asked which is better: a historic moment or an historic moment , and whether the ‘h’ is pronounced when people write ...

epub |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Arlene Miller [Miller, Arlene]

8. Capitalize the names of nationalities, races, and peoples: Spanish, African American, Creole 9. Capitalize businesses and brand names the same way they capitalize them—or not: Central Bank, Tasty Soup, ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-18 | Author:Mark Forsyth

CHAPTER TWENTY Enallage Enallage (e-NALL-aj-ee) is a deliberate grammatical mistake. That definition raises all sorts of philosophical questions about whether a mistake can be deliberate, and all sorts of linguistic ...

mobi |eng | 2013-05-23 | Author:Anne E. Greene

CHAPTER 8 Make Lists Parallel * * * In a single sentence, you often tell your readers more than one piece of new information. Two or more pieces of information ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-06 | Author:Linda Venis [Venis, Linda]

After You’ve Written Your First Draft… Write the Second Congratulations again! You finished your first draft and typed “The End” (which may be the only words you don’t change when ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-14 | Author:Steven Pinker

Vladimir Nabokov never won a Nobel Prize. Vladimir Nabokov never won an Oscar. The sentences in the left-hand column all deny a proposition that it would be reasonable for readers ...

epub |eng | | Author:Giammatteo, Giacomo [Giammatteo, Giacomo]

defuse the bomb Defuse—“to take out or remove the fuse from a bomb or explosive device,” or “to render a situation less dangerous,” as in “Obama defused the tense situation ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-27 | Author:Gary Provost

Were you a little more interested when I told you the man was a priest? That’s because he became more specific, and you could see him better. Whether I had ...

epub |eng | 2018-04-23 | Author:Syd Field

THE EXERCISE Rent or buy the DVD of Cold Mountain, Seabiscuit, Thelma & Louise, or Magnolia and study it from the point of view of conflict and the Circle of ...

epub |eng | 2018-12-04 | Author:Laura Brown

START STRONG Address both readers in your salutation. It’s usually wise to place the name of the senior or more powerful person first. Start by orienting both readers. Say explicitly ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gilda Williams

+ an extended artist’s, curator’s, or critic’s statement: such as artist Christopher Williams writing on his own show, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, Jan—Feb 2011;83 critic Mike Sperlinger writing on ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-16 | Author:William Bernhardt

Highlights 1) In writing, clarity is everything. 2) Choose each word carefully. 3) Unintended ambiguities will pull your reader out of the story. 4) Homonyms, homographs, and homophones can create ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-11 | Author:Larry Brooks & Robert Dugoni

12 The Functional Mission of Story Structure Welcome to the deep end of the pool. Not only will your premise serve you here, it may end up being the life ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-01 | Author:The Modern Language Association of America [America, The Modern Language Association of]

1.3.2 Prose If a prose quotation runs no more than four lines and requires no special emphasis, put it in quotation marks and incorporate it into the text. “It was ...

epub |eng | 2007-07-24 | Author:Lee Lofland [Lofland, Lee]

A simple day's testimony from an expert witness can cost approximately three thousand dollars plus travel and lodging expenses. Additional time — further testimony or testing interpretation — can be ...