Writing, Research & Publishing Guides
mobi |eng | | Author:William Strunk and E. B. White

Fix. Colloquial in America for arrange, prepare, mend. The usage is well established. But bear in mind that this verb is from figere: "to make firm," "to place definitely." These ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides March 8,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-12-31 | Author:Peter Hessler

“He’s not on television in their Canada, either. The only place where he is on television is China.” For the woman, like many of the Chinese that I met, this ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 7,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Donald Maass [Maass, Donald]

DIFFERENT WAYS OF RELATING A STORY There are many ways to tell a story, many points of view from which to look. What sort of storyteller are you? Are you ...
( Category: Fiction March 6,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-07-08 | Author:Fogarty, Mignon [Fogarty, Mignon]

ELLIPSES: MY THOUGHTS ARE TRAILING OFF . . . The Omission Ellipsis The most common and formal use of ellipses is to indicate an omission. If you’re quoting someone and ...
( Category: Writing Skills March 6,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Fogarty, Mignon [Fogarty, Mignon]

The snail, which happened to be yellow, was named Squiggly. His best friend, Squiggly, went to the store. Commas and Conditional Sentences Conditional sentences have an if clause such as ...
( Category: Writing Skills March 6,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:Chris Roush

The company launched a massive public relations campaign to counter the story, charging that the show selectively used footage that supported its preconceived angle and not footage that portrayed Food ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction March 5,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sarah Turnbull [Turnbull, Sarah]

Me: ‘Three. Anyway, I’d just rather stay in Paris.’ Frédéric: ‘But weekends are for leaving Paris!’ Me (insistent): ‘What’s wrong with you going alone?’ Frédéric (tired voice): ‘You know how ...
( Category: Travel March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-02 | Author:Francisco Goldman [Goldman, Francisco]

7 Interior Circuit Redux IN FEBRUARY 2013, Jovi suddenly left me. Throughout the fall of 2012 and into the winter of 2013, I’d flown regularly, sometimes on a weekly basis, ...
( Category: Mexico March 4,2015 )
epub | | 2013-03-03 | Author:George Lowe, Huw Lewis-Jones, Jan Morris, Peter Hillary [George Lowe]

Camp VI, 23,500 ft 15th May 1953 Dear Betty, There is such a lot to say and such a lot been doing in these five days that I’ll never be ...
( Category: Travel March 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Graham Johnson [Johnson, Graham]

19 Blown Out of Proportion At 8.30 am the next day I checked in with Ray on the phone. ‘Sorted,’ I said, the half-a-blow job hangovered into obscurity and not ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction March 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:William Dalrymple

The scale of William’s ambitions has echoes of the world of Conrad, with its steamships, up-country logging stations, ivory hunters, uncharted malarial forests and riverboats. Yet, driven forward with an ...
( Category: General March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Watkin Tench

10 The arrival of the Supply from Batavia; the state of the colony in November 1790 JOY sparkled in every countenance to see our old friend the Supply (I hope ...
( Category: World March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-16 | Author:Helen Garner

Elizabeth Jolley’s War ‘IN THE MIDDLE of the journey of our life’, when we start to feel the weight of the crimes we are hauling behind us, we might turn ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction March 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |ara, eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Sigrid Rausing

( Category: Travel March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:David Leavitt

At the flat, breath whistled, sweet as ever, through sleeping Edward’s slightly parted teeth. Chapter Eight The world was ending, but in London women gossiped and argued over the price ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 4,2015 )