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Learn on Your Own Time at Home or On the Go
Author
Publisher
Marion Street Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
While conducting interviews for his long-running radio program, Lewis Burke Frumkes has collected profound, whimsical, heartfelt, and back-to-basics advice for young writers. Presented here is sage commentary on writing from 150 of the groundbreaking literary figures of our time.
Series
Varieties of English around the world volume G41
Publisher
John Benjamins Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This book offers an easy-to-follow set of writing principles. For example, use active verbs whenever possible, favour concrete language over vague abstractions, avoid long strings of prepositional phrases, employ adjectives and adverbs only when they contribute something new to the meaning of a sentence and reduce your dependence on the "waste words": 'it', 'this', 'that' and 'there'. The author also shows these rules in action through examples from...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Uranos
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando el terremoto azota, hay que ponerse en marcha y darlo todo. Eso significa el vocablo azteca ollin, una palabra sagrada que define el compromiso total, indispensable en tiempos de crisis para individuos y organizaciones por un igual. Las palabras atraen o repelen. Ayudan u obstaculizan. Sinan...y también matan. Las palabras constituyen la mismísima materia de nuestra realidad. Y cuando descubrimos la diferencia entre el lenguaje del progreso...
Series
Language learning and language teaching volume 15
Publisher
John Benjamins Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English