Words, Language & Grammar
mobi |eng | 2009-03-16 | Author:Lawrence Block

Brian got the idea one night when he found his convertible top slashed; he turned his own righteous rage into the raw material of fiction. This chapter, I might add, ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-21 | Author:Lisa B. Marshall [Marshall, Lisa B.]

* * * Quick Quiz: What is your preferred style of conflict management? Does it change depending on who you are in conflict with or what the conflict is about? ...
( Category: Skills December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Sam Leith

Ad Herennium is actually—and, to me, fascinatingly—almost insanely specific about how these backgrounds should be arranged in the mind’s eye. The author wants something uncluttered. He favors a deserted area ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-07 | Author:Fred E. Miller [Miller, Fred E.]

Each has advantages and disadvantages. If the microphone is attached to the lectern, unless you remove it from its holder, you’ll be tempted to stand behind it. This minimizes your ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Michael Hauge

CHARTING THE SCREENPLAY For a truly left-brained exercise, chart your screenplay scene by scene. Wait until you’ve done at least a couple drafts of your script before employing this device, ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 2,2017 )
mobi, azw |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Michael Port

8. Once you start, don’t stop. Commit to the joke or you won’t get a laugh. If you back off as you’re telling it or you tell it halfheartedly, the ...
( Category: Skills December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:James W. Pennebaker [Pennebaker, James W.]

Low use of I-words People higher in the social hierarchy use first-person singular pronouns such as I, me, and my at much lower rates than people lower in status. In ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-07-16 | Author:Robert H Gass & John S Seiter

One-Sided versus Two-Sided Messages: Both Sides Now In the previous section, we saw that either supportive or inoculation treatments can be effective at making people resistant to persuasion. With that ...
( Category: Performing Arts December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:Daniel J. O'Keefe

Liking The General Rule Perhaps it comes as no surprise that a number of investigations have found support for the general principle that on the whole, liked communicators are more ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-06-29 | Author:Michael E. Porter [Porter, Michael E.]

The evolutionary processes are a tool for predicting industry changes. Each evolutionary process is the basis of a key strategic question. For example, the potential impact of government regulatory change ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-02-24 | Author:Rosalie Maggio [Maggio, Rosalie]

Most of my contacts are now older and retired, spending their limited time and energy on their own projects. I hope you understand. Sincerely, Edwin Dear Edwin, I am grateful ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-04-17 | Author:Bill Hoogterp

College students are more likely to remember a statistical lecture when the professor includes relevant jokes about the topic. Like many of the people who have attended my training sessions, ...
( Category: Skills December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:James Price Dillard & Lijiang Shen

CHAPTER 14 Inoculation Theory Josh Compton After Michael Pfau and I offered what was, prior to this chapter, the most comprehensive narrative review of inoculation scholarship (Compton & Pfau, 2005), ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-08-06 | Author:Michael W. Geoghegan & Greg Cangialosi & Ryan Irelan & Tim Bourquin & Colette Vogele

It should be noted that these licenses stem from “traditional” practices in a pre-podcasting and pre-Internet world. As such, they typically pertain to movie releases and television broadcasting, and their ...
( Category: Skills December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-26 | Author:Patricia T. O'Conner

REASON . . . IS BECAUSE. Here’s a redundancy for you, a wording that seems to repeat itself: The reason Rex stayed home is because robbers tied him up. Can ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar December 2,2017 )