Book Indexing For AuthorsHow to create a professional nonfiction index in Word
An index could be the thing your book is missing. Take a look in a library or bookstore and you will find few nonfiction books that don't have indexes. That's because publishers know how important the presence of an index is to readers - and therefore how vital it is for sales. Indies often don't realize this - and miss out on potential sales and potential good reviews.A book index is like a guidepost or map for your readers. It tells them what to expect from your book, where to find topics that interest them, and - importantly - what isn't in the book. This means that it reduces the chances of poor reviews and increases the chances of positive reviews. An index helps usability, which makes it more useful to readers.If you are an author thinking of creating your own index, you're in good company.There is quite a precedent for author-indexes (especially in the world of academia, where subjects are so specialist that it's hard to find a professional indexer with relevant experience). This book will guide you through the process and show you how to do it yourself in Microsoft Word. (Sorry, no Mac instructions.)This book is for you if...You need easy-to-understand instructions on how to create your own index for a non-fiction book using Microsoft Word;Your [traditional] publisher is insisting on an index and expecting you to pay for it;You don't have a big budget;You aren't a computer or publishing expert;You don't want to spend weeks (or months) learning how to index.This book is not for you if...You need an in-depth, theory-based book. Many people like the jump-right-in, workbook approach. You are looking for something to help you become a professional indexer, or to win indexing awards. Most professional training courses and organizations often recommend Nancy C. Mulwary's Indexing Books. Also check out the American Society of Indexers (ASI) - www.asindexing.org - and other professional and standards organizations in other countries. You can find courses on indexing in local colleges, as well as online.If you do buy this [print] book, you will have the opportunity of joining the forthcoming online course based on it - free of charge. You will be able to ask questions, receive help, and see in real-time what the creation of an index involves.
Conversation SkillsManage Business Presentations by Learning Storytelling Techniques and O
Novice speakers will learn valuable tips and methods that can help them become effective communicators in no time at all. Students taking their first speech class in secondary school or college will definitely appreciate this book. Those who frequently give speeches will gain insights to improve their efficiency in speech writing and take their presentations to the next level.What you'll discover are the types of speaking opportunities that are out there, along with suggestions for handling challenging situations before, during, and after your presentations that can eat up your time, energy, and money. Here's a preview of what's discussed: .Who hires public speakers?.Why you don't want to be a "professional" speaker..What should you talk about?.Does public speaking help you sell books? And can your book help you get speaking gigs?.How many sales leads can you really get from public speaking?.How to evaluate public speaking opportunities..Dealing with unwanted post-presentation consultation requests.Simple Secrets to Getting Paid to Speak is a guidebook that also shows you how to get paid in referrals and testimonials, as well as techniques of building your email list at all of your speaking events, whether you're paid or not. Using practical descriptions, examples, and illustrations, the book explains simple methods to write your Speaker One Sheet and the times when you don't need it.
Public SpeakingLearn How to Negotiate and Master the Secrets of Crucial Conversation for Effective Leadership (Smart Ways to Get the Attention of Your Audience)
This basic practical workbook has been written for public speaking beginners. It will encourage speakers to acknowledge the purpose of everyday communication. Speakers will learn to plan, organize, and present speeches to an appropriate designated audience.Below is a preview of just some of the content covered in this book Overcoming Fear of Public SpeakingWhy Practice, Rehearse & Visualize Public SpeakingHow to startKnowing your audienceVocal PitchAcing the opener and ending on a high noteHow to portray humor effectively during a presentationWhere you put the punch lineDealing with Culture DifferencesBody languageListening effectivelyCommunicating with family membersCommunication tips in the work environmentYou too have a voice, and it is only fair that you use all the weapons at your disposal to make it clearly heard in public, whether amongst a small group of friends or colleagues or on a stage in front of thousands of people.
ConversationOvercome Public Speaking Fear and Manage Business Presentations by Learning Storytelling Techniques (Influence Anyone With You Persuasion Skills and Build Rapport)
This guide book takes a humorous look at some of the myths in public speaking and provides you with alternatives to help you connect, be clear and compel any audience. The tips and suggestions enclosed are easy to implement and will allow you to sharpen your public speaking skills immediately.In this quick guide book, you'll learn all about: Identifying yourselfGetting across what you're trying to sayTo whom you're addressingWhich medium to useWith what effects you'll useAnd so much more!In this book, Public Speaking: The Best Tactics To Master The Art Of Speaking And Presenting In Public, you will be provided with valuable tools and techniques that will allow you to achieve success in any occasion in which you are called to speak in front of a crowd.
Communication SkillsOvercoming Fear of Public Speaking and Improve Your Leadership With Be
You too have the power in your voice to influence, inspire, and touch lives all over the world. The power of great speaking ability is much closer than you know. Becoming a great speaker, therefore, is a necessity to persuade, inspire, and convey your message.Here are some examples of what you'll find inside: -Establish your "WHY?" and action plan to achieve your speech goal.-How to make a great first impression and connect to your audience-Presentation aids that add value to your speech.-How to present a winning speech-And much more...After going through this book, you will gain the idea of successful public speaking formula and win the trust from your audience.While many books will tell you to simply overcome your fear and give you strategies to help you stop feeling tense, they aren't dealing with the SOURCE of the issue which people face during a conversation. The biggest obstacle of effective communication is the fact that there are many secrets to making it work that you should know but might not be aware of.
Funneling Your Way Through Composition
Funneling Your Way Through Composition is a step by step guide to college writing. This book explores techniques such as: ] Mindful Reading] Beyond Annotating-Interacting With Text] Developing Ideas] Research First & Adding To The Conversation] Developing a Working Thesis] Subtopic and Evidence Choices] Analyzing Instead of Summarizing] The Revision Process] The Ethical Counterview] Writing A Kick-Ass Conclusion] ReflectingThere is also a chapter on applying all of this to real world situations.Funneling Your Way Through Composition will assist students making the transition from the 5-paragraph high school essay to college level writing.
SpeakingPublic Speaking Guide to Becoming a More Successful and Charismatic Leader (Overcome Fear, Social Anxiety & Shyness to Influence Anyone)
Public addresses will cover a wide range of different topics. The speech may be directed at informing, entertaining or affecting listeners. Visual aids are often used in the form of an electronic slideshow to supplement the speech and make it more interesting to the listeners.In this invaluable public speaking guide, you will learn how to present like a professional speaker: Deliver more polished and professional speechesTailor public presentations for maximum impactKeep audiences of all types engagedVocal training techniques to ensure that you speak confidently and clearlyStructure your speeches to stand out, achieve desired outcomes and elicit emotional responsesOvercome fear, social anxiety and prevent stage fright to condition yourself for successThis book will help you with things that have to be said, and you do not know or want to say them, with the little or a big speech you need to give or with the words that need to came out everyday. When you need help you can always ask for it, and here you'll find it.
CharismaOvercome Fear and Give a Winning Presentation and Master Public Speaking (Overcome
Self-belief and your creative abilities can help you achieve success irrespective of how monumentally massive and intimidating your goal seems. When you are confident, you trust your abilities, which is why you do things that help you progress professionally.Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn....Strategies for Influencing People.How to connect with people and win friends.What tricks celebrities use to connect with people.Tips you can use everyday to improve your relationships (new or old).Ideas for how you can connect with new people.How to have lasting relationships.Much, much more!In Prepare Your Speech, you will discover several unique ways to cope with public speaking fear, how to use notecards properly, and whether or not you should use visual aids. If you choose to use visual aids, this book will also help you determine what kind of visual aids to use and how to incorporate them into your speech.
Public SpeakingBuild Charismatic Self-esteem & Learn the Science to Talk to Anyone With Effective Social and Emotional Intelligence & Conversation Skills (Gain Confidence and Feel Free From Anxiety)
What's missing from those books is a discussion of how speaking gigs are actually booked where you can practice your skills, demonstrate your expertise, and attract followers and customers to you. Without the chance to get in front of real audiences, in person or online, it doesn't matter how great a speaker you are.Discover How To: Find your voice and select your messageWrite and structure your speech for maximum impactTurn your stories into mental movies for your audience. Learn advanced storytelling skills to make your characters and your scenes come alive.Instantly grab your audience's attention with your openingPackage your expertise in an informational-speech (without boring your audience)Close your speech with powerUse the Tap and Transport technique to build a powerful connection with your audienceMake your audience a part of your presentationBuild a memorable Phrase that PaysBuild engaging speech transitionsUncover organic humor hidden inside your stories.Use the "one-box-at-a-time" technique to build a winning speechThe materials provided in this book have been assembled and proven over my eight years of continuous research and testing. Every tool and technique provided in this book has been proven. Everything you'll be learning from this book is what I've researched, learned, and tested repeatedly with great success.
Copyright and PermissionsWhat Every Writer and Editor Should Know
Copyright can often be a perplexing topic, but not understanding it well can land you in legal hot water. Copyright and Permissions: What Every Writer and Editor Should Know gives you the practical knowledge you need - what copyright is, how it works, its role in the digital landscape - and walks you through the permissions process, offering useful samples and step-by-step advice for finding work as a permissions editor.While debunking common misconceptions about copyright, author Elsa Peterson lucidly explains how copyright is established, how long it lasts, and what type of material is eligible. You'll learn the meaning and scope of public domain and ways to navigate the murky parameters of fair use.You'll also grasp how the concept of copyright has shifted in the age of digital communication and the ramifications of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and other legislation that addressed the novel issues created by evolving technologies. Email, texting, social media, and other avenues of online sharing have made it more difficult to control copyright infringement. This book provides concrete examples of the scenarios editors may confront when they seek permission to use material from these sources, as well as from digital collaboration projects and open-access initiatives like Creative Commons.Along with a solid grounding in copyright principles, you'll get a detailed introduction to the permissions editing process and learn how to: Examine a manuscript to identify all the material that requires permissionCreate and use a permissions database or logContact a copyright holder and submit a permission request letterPrepare acknowledgments and negotiate feesAnd you'll discover the types of organizations that hire freelance permissions editors and strategies for getting your foot in the door.A successful permissions editor needs to be equal parts detective, negotiator, and diplomat. This book shows you how to fill those roles with tact and confidence, so you can expand your repertoire and grow your freelance editing business
ConversationInfluence People Using Powerful Public Speaking and Communication & Social Skills (Proven Strategies to Overcome Your Fear and Speak With Confidence)
All you need to do is give this book a try, and see it yourself if Public Speaking is really for you.We are sure your own perspectives about Public Speaking will significantly change once you read our expert and honest advice.Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn...- Understanding the Fear of Public Speaking- How to Set the Foundation of Public Speaking- How to Prepare Your Presentation- How to Win the Audience- How to Speak and Captivate- And much, much more!Public Speaking... Simplified eliminates the complex and confusing instructions and advice that never really move the needle in creating public speaking success for people. Instead, Public Speaking... Simplified focuses on the core skills, attitudes, actions and strategies that will unleash anyone's natural public speaking abilities.
Resum矇s for Freelancers
This booklet describes the difference between the content and style of a traditional resum矇 and the functional resum矇, which the authors recommend for freelancers seeking work. A skills-based resum矇 is a more effective strategy for freelance editorial professionals because potential clients can identify at a glance whether the freelancer has the skills required for the job.For serious freelancers committed to self-employment in the communications and publishing industries, the traditional resum矇 is fundamentally flawed. It doesn't accommodate the variety of projects an experienced editorial professional may have worked on as a freelancer. If their last full-time job was years ago, the reverse chronological approach makes it look like they've been unemployed since then. More importantly, a traditional resum矇 doesn't tell a potential client whether the freelancer can do the job.Managing editors looking for proofreaders, for instance, don't really care about previous job titles or where an applicant went to college. They want to know that they'll do a good, fast, accurate job on schedule and on budget-in other words, that they'll be a reliable professional.One of the best ways to present oneself as a freelance editorial professional worth hiring is with a functional resum矇. This type of resum矇 focuses on a freelancer's skills, abilities, and accomplishments, though it may mention previous job experience and educational attainments.For a self-employed editorial professional who wants to get freelance work, a functional resum矇 extracts valuable skills hidden in the traditional resum矇 and highlights them to emphasize writing and editorial skills for specific clients.To create a solid functional resum矇, rethink the old chronological resum矇. Look at the skills used in all prior jobs, including those outside publishing. Skills developed through volunteer work also count.The authors have provided four sets of before/after resum矇s to assist the reader's understanding of the differences between the two and to envision how the functional resum矇 might work for them as they pursue self-employment or work on marketing their small business. In addition to explaining the benefits of the functional resum矇, this booklet discusses elements of resum矇 design that take into account artificial intelligence screening as well as human foibles that might affect a job offer.The authors also describe ways to supplement your resum矇, leverage LinkedIn effectively, target your job search, build your network, and protect yourself against scammers.
Let's Get Digital
Publish like a pro and start building your audience today with the most comprehensive guide on the market. Packed with practical, actionable advice, this brand new fourth edition of Let's Get Digital delivers the very latest best practices on publishing your work and finding readers.- Boost your writing career with marketing strategies that are proven to sell more books.- Get expert tips on platform building, blogging and social media.- Discover which approaches are best for selling fiction vs. non-fiction.- Implement powerful ways to make your ebooks more discoverable.- Increase your visibility by optimizing keywords and categories.- Weigh the pros and cons of Kindle Unlimited, and find out exactly how to tweak your promotional plans depending on whether you stay exclusive to Amazon or opt for wider distribution.And that's just for starters...
The Pulp MindsetThePulp MindsetA NewPub Survival Guide
Out with the Old, in with the NewPub!Nobody reads anymore. In an age where audiences consume more art than ever before, books have remained irrelevant to the ever-changing West. Nothing seems to change this unavoidable reality. The industry is over.Or is it?A new frontier has opened where anything goes! We live in a pulp landscape now, a place where the past and present comes together to create a better future. In this book you will learn just what this NewPub world is, how to adapt to it, and change the way you think about everything.The Rules Have Changed!You can do anything! The Pulp Mindset will help you adapt to this crazy climate and become the best artist you can be. Read on and join the revolution!
Write from the Heart
Write from the Heart is a writing handbook designed to help every student find their voice and express it with skill and confidence. Unique among writing guides, this book focuses on discovering how a writer's voice influences every aspect of the writing process, from planning to drafting to revising and editing. It includes tips on how to engage their voice in even the most traditional styles of writing, and how to create essays that are not only well written, but engage their audience and clearly expresses their own unique perspective on the world.This book covers the writing process with the writer's voice in mind. When a student is excited about writing, it's easy to help them apply the rules to make what they are already proud of even better. It covers ten different styles of writing including personal narratives, fictional stories, informative writing, persuasive writing, analytical writing and book reviews. It also includes an extensive section on research writing focusing on modern research challenges.This resource guide can be used as a stand-alone teaching tool for students and parents and includes practice activities and two writing assignments with every chapter. It is also used in conjunction with Write from the Heart's online classes as a resource manual for all composition classes. More information about these classes can be found at www.writefromtheheart.org.Write from the Heart: A Resource Guide to Engage Writers is divided up into nine sections covering all parts of the writing process: -Planning Your Writing: helps students find a topic that inspires them, but also addresses the importance of considering the audience and having an organized outline.-Parts of a Draft: covers all the pieces needed to create a successful essay or creative work, including thesis statements, fully developed paragraphs, and smooth transitions.-Voice Techniques: helps students understand that the main component of writing well is expressing themselves well. It introduces the five elements of voice and discusses how to add details, inner ideas, and figurative language into every style of writing.-Creative Writing Styles: introduces how to write creatively through poetry, fictional stories, and creative nonfiction.-Academic Writing Styles: looks at writing for educational and professional situations including analytical, informative, comparison, and persuasive writing.-Research Strategies: explains not only how to find reliable sources, but how to integrate them smoothly into a paper.-MLA Guide: provides students with the technical steps for creating proper citations for research in the style required by the Modern Language Association.-Grammar Guide: reviews all the basic rules for sentences, punctuation, capitalization and other errors and teaches students how to avoid common mistakes. A companion workbook is available for further practice in conjunction with this section.
Rhetorical Strategies for Professional Development
This book extends current research around mentoring and learning theory, illustrating how mentoring creates, enacts, and sustains multidisciplinary learning in a variety of school, work, and community contexts. It uses mentoring as a way to reimagine value-added approaches to research and teaching practices in Rhetoric and Composition.
Language and Logic in Ancient China
Guided by 20th century theories of language, Hansen's novel approach to interpretive theory launched the modern analytical study of Ancient Chinese philosophy. This 1983 publication challenged authority-based traditional "religious" accounts stemming from 18th and 19th century missionary dictionaries and reliance on interpretive authority."Hansen shows that one tiny grammatical question... has profound implications for the understanding of Chinese philosophy. ...This is surely a decisive breakthrough ... a great success. His observations about Chinese thought in general are always stimulating and illuminating. A book which excites one to rethink things from the foundations." A. C. Graham"An ambitious and provocative book concerning the relationship between language and thought in ancient China. ... a novel and powerful theory about the nature of classical Chinese language ... a better understanding of many issues in classical Chinese philosophy." P. J. Ivanhoe"[The] importance of this book lies ... in its engaging style, novel ideas, and rigorous argumentation, which can serve as a model for future work in Chinese philosophy. Hansen takes Chinese philosophy seriously as philosophy. For anyone tired of the superficial summaries or scholastic commentaries that so often characterize this field, Hansen's book will be a memorable and welcome change." Michael Martin
Uzbek Fairy Tales
This translation book, "Uzbek Fairy Tales", is devoted to the translation of a number of Uzbek fairy tales into English. Meanwhile, these fairy tales are dedicated to the familiarization of Uzbek ancient traditions, Uzbek spirituality and culture to all readers. The translation of Uzbek fairy tales into English in this book will help anyone who is learning Uzbek or English as a foreign language, including children, not only to strengthen their language skills, but also to draw the necessary conclusions from fairy tales for a prosperous life.
The Emotional Wound Thesaurus
Readers connect to characters with depth, ones who have experienced life's ups and downs. To deliver key players that are both realistic and compelling, writers must know them intimately-not only who they are in the present story, but also what made them that way. Of all the formative experiences in a character's past, none are more destructive than emotional wounds. The aftershocks of trauma can change who they are, alter what they believe, and sabotage their ability to achieve meaningful goals, all of which will affect the trajectory of your story.Identifying the backstory wound is crucial to understanding how it will shape your character's behavior, and The Emotional Wound Thesaurus can help. Inside, you'll find: A database of traumatic situations common to the human experienceAn in-depth study on a wound's impact, including the fears, lies, personality shifts, and dysfunctional behaviors that can arise from different painful eventsAn extensive analysis of character arc and how the wound and any resulting unmet needs fit into itTechniques on how to show the past experience to readers in a way that is both engaging and revelatory while avoiding the pitfalls of info dumps and tellingA showcase of popular characters and how their traumatic experiences reshaped them, leading to very specific story goalsA Backstory Wound Profile tool that will enable you to document your characters' negative past experiences and the aftereffects Root your characters in reality by giving them an authentic wound that causes difficulties and prompts them to strive for inner growth to overcome it. With its easy-to-read format and over 100 entries packed with information, The Emotional Wound Thesaurus is a crash course in psychology for creating characters that feel incredibly real to readers.
Humour Translation in the Age of Multimedia
This volume seeks to investigate how humour translation has developed over the last twenty years, focusing in particular on new ways of communication. Accessible and engaging, this is essential reading for advanced students and researchers in Translation Studies and Humour Studies.
Politeness Strategies Instruction
The study reported in the present thesis investigated the effectiveness of teaching politeness strategies, as formulated by Brown and Levinson (1987), on learners' use of these strategies in writing two types of English letters, apology and complaint letters. . An in-depth analysis of the letters written by both groups and the results of the chi-square tests revealed that the learners who received instruction on these strategies used them more frequently than those who didn't. Moreover, positive and negative politeness strategies were used by the students of both groups in writing the letters; however, in the experimental groups.
Studies from a Retranslation CultureThe Turkish Context
Chapter 1 Introduction: Mutability in Retranslation?zlem Berk Albachten and Şehnaz Tahir G羹r癟ağlarChapter 2On Gulistan's Turkish (Re)translations: A Chronological Survey through Paratextual Data.Fatma B羹y羹kkarcı YılmazChapter 3Elucidating or (Un)breaking the Chain? Intralingual Translations and Retranslations of Şeyh Galib's H羹sn 羹 Aşk.A. Handan KonarChapter 4Turkish Retranslations of Philosophical Concepts in Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Yeşim T羹kel KanraChapter 5(Re)translations of the European Convention on Human Rights in Turkish. Deniz Ko癟ak KurmelChapter 6The Turkish Retranslations of Marx's Das Kapital as a Site of Intellectual and Ideological Struggle. İrem KoncaChapter 7The Indicative Role of Retranslations for the Turkish Leftist Discourse: Using Berman's Translation Criticism Path to Analyze Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei as a Case. Muazzez UsluChapter 8Up to Date as Long as Retranslated: Thomas More's Utopia in Turkish.Ceyda Elg羹lChapter 9Retranslating and Repackaging a Literary Masterpiece from a Peripheral Language: The Functions of Paratexts in Recontextualizing Literary Translations.Şule Demirkol Ert羹rkChapter 10Retranslation, Paratext, and Recontextualization: Le Comte de Monte Cristo and The Hound of Baskervilles in Turkish (Re)translations.A. Selin Erkul YağcıChapter 11Why "Sway" Again? Prosodic Constraints and Singability in Song (Re)translation. Mine G羹ven
Editing Secrets of Best－Selling Authors
Successful writers spend a lot more time editing than they do writing. They know that first drafts need extensive revisions to ensure their stories or messages come across clearly and effectively. In this book you'll find a wealth of suggestions from best-selling authors who have studied editing techniques and implemented them in their books, which have touched the hearts and lives of readers around the world. If you're an aspiring, beginning, or intermediate writer, this book will help you polish your manuscript and get it ready for publication. If you're an established author, these tips can help you edit other writers' manuscripts, either in a critique group setting or as an editorial freelancer.
Positioning and Stance in Political Discourse
Within the political sphere, a political actor is often judged by what he or she says, with their verbal performance often perceived as representative of the individual. Hearers accept that, as individuals, they possess a lifetime of experiences and actions which inform, but may also undermine, their aspirations in gaining political capital. Additionally, as representatives of a political party and its ideology, these actors do not exist in isolation; they are members and, at times, potential candidates of a particular party with its own agenda which may, in turn, cause them to modify their personal speech to align with espoused policies of the party. The various contributions contained in this volume examine the discourse of political actors through the lenses of positionality and stance. Throughout its chapters, clearly defined theoretical perspectives and specified social practices are employed, enabling the authors to elucidate how political actors can situate themselves, their party, and their opponents toward their ostensive public. This book successfully demonstrates how espoused perspectives relate to, or reflect on, the nature of the individual political actor and their truth, the party they represent and its ideology, and the pandering to popular public opinion to gain support and co-operation. This book will hold particular appeal for postgraduate students, researchers, and scholars of discourse studies, pragmatics, political science, as well as other areas in humanities and the social sciences.
On WritingA Memoir of the Craft
Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen KingONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP 100 NONFICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King's critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work. "Long live the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King's advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999--and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it--fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.
Dazzling Description
How do you create a fictional world that readers will want to visit? How do you paint a picture that springs to life on the page? William Bernhardt explains how to use description and setting to enhance your story without slowing the pace. Bernhardt discusses showing without telling, providing descriptive details that inform character, and integrating visuals and action with "stealth description." In his direct, no-nonsense style, Bernhardt explains how to use all five senses to create a fully realized portrait.William Bernhardt is the bestselling author of more than fifty books, including the bestselling Daniel Pike novels. Bernhardt is also one of the most sought-after writing instructors in the nation. He has received the Southern Writers Gold Medal Award and the H. Louise Cobb Distinguished Author Award, which is given "in recognition of an outstanding body of work that has profoundly influenced the way in which we understand ourselves and American society at large." In 2019, he received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award.The Red Sneaker Writing Center provides a free e-newsletter, podcast, workshops, retreats, and an annual conference to help writers achieve their goals. What's a red sneaker writer? A committed writer seeking useful instruction rather than obfuscation and attitude. Red sneakers get the job done and so do red sneaker writers, by paying close attention to their art and craft, committing to hard work, and never quitting. Are you a red sneaker writer? If so, this book is for you.
The Elements of Style
The book's mantra, make every word tell, is still on point. This much-loved classic will forever be the go-to guide when in need of a hint to make a turn of phrase clearer or a reminder on how to enliven prose with the active voice. The only style manual to ever appear on bestseller lists has explained to millions of readers the basic principals of plain English, making the learning experience more colourful and bright.
The Invention of Rare Books
When does a book that is merely old become a rarity and an object of desire? David McKitterick examines, for the first time, the development of the idea of rare books, and why they matter. Studying examples from across Europe, he explores how this idea took shape in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how collectors, the book trade and libraries gradually came together to identify canons that often remain the same today. In a world that many people found to be over-supplied with books, the invention of rare books was a process of selection. As books are one of the principal means of memory, this process also created particular kinds of remembering. Taking a European perspective, McKitterick looks at these interests as they developed from being matters of largely private concern and curiosity, to the larger public and national responsibilities of the first half of the nineteenth century.
Story Like a Journalist
Want to write novels that feel real enough to the reader to have been ripped from the headlines, whatever your genre? Think like a journalist. Looking at the questions journalists ask can help you think of the characters and events in your story as real people, whose lives you are recording, just like you were writing memoir or a news article. Approach planning your novel the way a journalist plans out writing a news piece. They figure out what they will need to research for the piece, and decide how they will structure that research into a narrative. They decide on a format for the story's lede (opening designed to draw the reader in) and structure the story to follow up on the questions presented in that lede. They document everything, so that they can verify the accuracy of everything they present. You can do the same for your fiction. This workbook serves as a full self-paced writing course, presenting theory on each aspect of the world/characters you are trying to create - and then offering step-by-step worksheets that allow you to apply what you just learned. The instructional material is designed to give you a basic foundation in creative writing craft so that you understand how to build an effective story using the information you add into the worksheets. Working through the entire collected workbook will give you a comprehensive Story Bible detailing aspects of your plot and characters to give you a reference source for your world - and the expertise on how to use it. The Master Collection gives you access to all five Story Like a Journalist volumes, for a total of over 100 worksheets. Get ready to take a deep dive into your story, its characters and its world. The journalistic planning strategies in the book take you from determining the best protagonist for your story to imbuing your work with meaning. The book walks you through each of these processes: Who? = Character - WHO are these people who've showed up demanding a place in your novel, anyway? You know they have a story to tell, and for some specific reason, you are the writer in the best position to tell it. Approach uncovering character the same way a journalist approaches a profile piece. What? = Premise -- WHAT is this story about? Premise define the heart of your story. You need a keystone to hold onto, so you don't get lost in all the things your story COULD be. Premise is your keystone, and it works like the legend for a road map. Approach refining premise the same way a journalist approaches a news story. When? and Where? = Setting - WHEN and WHERE the heck are your characters? They have to be somewhere, waiting for the story to start. And that place shouldn't be random. Setting makes the story specific, and allows readers to feel like your characters are real people, living real lives in a certain time and place. Approach exploring aspects of your setting the same way a journalist approaches making a documentary. How? and Why? = Plot and Theme - A plot that doesn't build to a theme is hollow, no matter how much excitement you build into the on-page action, there's no substance so the story won't be memorable. A character contemplating a theme without the framework of a plot is drifting, no matter how much she has to say, there's nothing concrete to prove her points or to challenge them. Her ideas just slip away. But when you get HOW and WHY working together, you can build a pattern of events and meaning that will touch our emotions and maybe even change the way we think.
Philosophy’s TreasonStudies in Philosophy and Translation
Philosophy's Treason: Studies in Philosophy and Translation gathers contributions from an international group of scholars at different stages of their careers, bringing together diverse perspectives on translation and philosophy. The volume's six chapters primarily look towards translation from philosophic perspectives, often taking up issues central to Translation Studies and pursuing them along philosophic lines. By way of historical, logical, and personal reflection, several chapters address broad topics of translation, such as the entanglements of culture, ideology, politics, and history in the translation of philosophic works, the position of Translation Studies within current academic humanities, untranslatability within philosophic texts, and the ways philosophic reflection can enrich thinking on translation. Two more narrowly focused chapters work closely on specific philosophers and their texts to identify important implications for translation in philosophy. In a final "critical postscript" the volume takes a reflexive turn as its own chapters provide starting points for thinking about philosophy and translation in terms of periperformativity. From philosophers critically engaged with translation this volume offers distinct perspectives on a growing field of research on the interdisciplinarity and relationality of Translation Studies and Philosophy. Ranging from historical reflections on the overlap of translation and philosophy to philosophic investigation of questions central to translation to close-readings of translation within important philosophic texts, Philosophy's Treason serves as a useful guide and model to educators in Translation Studies wishing to illustrate a variety of approaches to topics related to philosophy and translation.
English Translations of Shuihu ZhuanA Narratological Perspective
This book offers a novel perspective on the intersection of translation and narration in literary translation by investigating how three translations of Shuihu Zhuan present the original narrative mode to the target readership in terms of four narrative elements--voice, commentary, point of view and motif--in different periods of history. It not only validates but also quantifies the differences in strategy-making patterns between translators, as well as between different narratological categories. The established theoretical frameworks (including a narrative-descriptive model and a sociological explanatory framework) and the data collected may provide methodological and empirical support for further studies on shifts of narrative features in translation. The tendencies manifested by different translators and identified by the study may also shed new light on the teaching and learning of translation skills.The book offers a valuable reference guide for scholars, practitioners, translators and graduate students in the fields of e.g. language, translation, literature and cultural studies, and for anyone with an interest in Chinese classical literature, Chinese-English translation, narrative studies or cross-cultural studies.
Fit-For-Market Translator and Interpreter Training in a Digital Age
Training institutions offering specialized translation and interpreting programs need to keep up with the rapid development of digitalization and the increasingly sophisticated requirements of the language industry. This book addresses digital trends and employability in the market from the aspect of training: how have the latest digital trends shaped the language industry, and what competencies will translators, interpreters and T/I trainers need so as to meet current market requirements? Four major subjects of high relevance are discussed in 12 chapters: (1) collaborative partnership in the field of fit-for-market practices with a focus on e-learning materials; (2) competence development in translator and interpreter training; (3) the implications of neural machine translation and the increasing significance of post-editing practices, as well as (4) the role of new technologies and new methods in the work and training of interpreters and translators. With an introduction written by Juanjo Arevalillo, managing director of Hermes Traducciones and former vice-president of the European Union of Associations of Translation Companies, the book creates a fresh momentum for researchers, academics, professionals and trainees to be engaged in a constructive dialogue.
Composition Studies 48.1 (Spring 2020)
The oldest independent periodical in the field, COMPOSITION STUDIES publishes original articles relevant to rhetoric and composition, including those that address teaching college writing; theorizing rhetoric and composing; administering writing programs; and, among other topics, preparing the field's future teacher-scholars. All perspectives and topics of general interest to the profession are welcome. We also publish Course Designs, which contextualize, theorize, and reflect on the content and pedagogy of a course. Contributions to Composing With are invited by the editor, though queries are welcome (send to compstudies@uc.edu). Cfps, announcements, and letters to the editor are most welcome. Composition Studies does not consider previously published manuscripts, unrevised conference papers, or unrevised dissertation chapters.CONTENTS OF COMPOSITION STUDIES 48.1 (Spring 2020): Manuscript Reviewers 2019 From the Editors: In Times of Trouble AT A GLANCE: CONNECTIONS & COLLABORATIONS: Developing Writers in Higher Education: A Longitudinal Study by Anne Ruggles Gere, Laura Aull, Gail Gibson, Lizzie Hutton, Benjamin Keating, Anna V. Knutson, Ryan McCarty, Justine Post, Naomi Silver, Sarah Swofford, and Emily Wilson ARTICLES: Self-Authorship and Faculty Writers' Trajectories of Becoming by Sandra L. Tarabochia Career Killer Survival Kit: Centering Single Mom Perspectives in Composition and Rhetoric by Alex Hanson Affirming Difference: Inhabiting the WPA Otherwise by Nathaniel Street Politeness Profiles in the First-Year Composition Classroom by Pennie L. Gray COURSE DESIGNS: Eng 7980: Learning Transfer in History and Theories of Composition by Ryan P. Shepherd, David T. Johnson, Sue Fletcher, Courtney A. Mauck, and Christopher J. Barber English 391ml: Multilingualism and Literacy in Western Mass by Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, Kyle Piscioniere, and Danielle Pappo WHERE WE ARE: Networking Undergraduate Research: Where We Are, Where We Can Go by Dominic DelliCarpini and Jessie L. Moore Theorizing with Undergraduate Researchers by Kristine Johnson and J. Michael Rifenburg Inexperience and Innovation by Courtney Buck, Emily Nolan, and Jamie Spallino Multimedia Undergraduate Research in Composition by Hannah Bellwoar, Jill Palmer, and Fisher Stroud BOOK REVIEWS: Social Media Ethics and the Rhetorical Tradition, review of Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues, by Jared S. Colton and Steve Holmes, and Social Writing/Social Media: Publics, Presentations, and Pedagogies, edited by Douglas M. Walls and Stephanie Vie, reviewed by Kristine L. Blair Re/Orienting Writing Studies: Queer Methods, Queer Projects, edited by William P. Banks, Matthew B. Cox, and Caroline Dadas, reviewed by Katrina L. Miller Serendipity in Rhetoric, Writing, and Literacy Research, edited by Maureen Daly Goggin and Peter N. Goggin, reviewed by Michael Pak Black Perspectives in Writing Program Administration: From the Margins to the Center, edited by Staci M. Perryman-Clark and Colin Lamont Craig, reviewed by Floyd Pouncil Rhetorical Feminism and This Thing Called Hope, by Cheryl Glenn, reviewed by Anne Turner Next Steps: New Directions for/in Writing about Writing, edited by Barbara Bird, Doug Downs, I. Moriah McCracken, and Jan Rieman, reviewed by John H. Whicker CONTRIBUTORS
Self-Publishing Questions Asked & Answered (LARGE PRINT EDITION)
"Self-Publishing Questions Asked & Answered" identifies the most common questions concerning self publication today and answers them clearly and concisely. What is the difference between "independent" self-publishing, "free" self-publishing, and "full-service" self-publishing? What should I title my book? How do I price my book? What is an ISBN and why is it important? How do I get book reviews on Amazon? These are just a small sample of the top 25 questions Ernest & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Semi-Finalist and self-publishing expert Brent Sampson has been asked over the years and now answers thoroughly and completely in this book.
The First 100 WordsTheFirst 100 Words
The first 100 words of your manuscript are as important as all the words that follow. They comprise a first impression. They set the tone and introduce your writing style. If poorly chosen, they may be the only words an editor reads. The purpose of The First 100 Words is to share one editorial staff's insights into that narrow literary domain, to chart the pitfalls and headlong plunges that inspire frontline readers to reject manuscripts, often without bothering to finish them.
Public Speaking Made EasyStart Off Strong, End Powerful, and Have Fun in the Process
Have You Ever Felt Anxious Before Giving A Speech?This book will give you strategies to replace your feelings of anxiety with feelings of confidence. Statistically speaking, only 10% of the population like giving presentations. Half of those people have a natural ability and enjoy speaking in front of crowds, and the other half have gone out to seek help with conquering the fear of presenting in order to make a powerful, memorable presentation.Have You Ever Felt Anxious Before Giving A Speech?This book will help you to feel confident in a matter of seconds just by giving your secret thought patterns.Inside You Will Discover: The Secrets Experts Use To Feel Confident & Have Fun During PresentationsHow To Create An Opener That Instantly Hooks The ListenersHow To Keep Your Listeners On The Edge Of Their SeatsHow To Create Unforgettable StoriesHow To Bring Your Characters To LifeHow To Make Your Story Visually Intriguing - Like A MovieHow To Be Prepared For Public Speaking Events & PresentationsWays To Build Instant Rapport With The AudienceAnd Much, Much More!15 years ago, the author Daniel Robbins had one big dream...and one HUGE fear. He wanted to positively impact thousands of lives but he was afraid of speaking in public (and on video too for that matter), but he was determined to overcome that fear. He studied how to become a good public speaker from Brendon Burchard, Tony Robbins, and Matt Morris. He then forced himself to get in front of people and give presentations. Today, he has become one of the most impactful speakers of this century, and he wants to share his best strategies with you.Imagine yourself 1-Hour from now...You've read this powerful book and your confidence has skyrocketed because you now know how to give a powerful presentation without feeling anxious about what to say, or what people are thinking...What Readers are Saying: "Make presentations in public is not easy for me and I have to do it with my job. In this book I found a lot of stuff to help me to prepare myself. I recommend this book."
Bad Advice
In Britain the monarch is never wrong. Whenever the sovereign drops a brick in public, a functionary turns up at Buckingham Palace to explain that Her/His Majesty "was badly advised."In the same way, many of the things that you are getting wrong in writing are not your fault: you have been badly advised. You have been taught superstitions about English that have no foundation in the language. You have been hobbled with oversimplifications. You have been subjected to bizarre diktats from supposed authorities.Much of it was well-intentioned. Grammarians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries lacking an established English grammar had to invent one. They turned to Latin, which had prestige and an established grammar they had been taught in schools, and they tried to adapt English to it. But Latin is a very different kind of language, and it was a bad fit.Others have sought to tidy up the language by inventing and enforcing distinctions and prohibitions, seldom helpfully. (Look at the over/more than entry.)We have wound up with what the linguist Arnold Zwicky has termed "zombie rules" absurd rules that have no foundation in the language and which have been repeatedly exploded by linguists and better-informed grammarians, but which roam classrooms and editorial offices like the undead.As Henry Hitchings summed the situation up in The Language Wars, "The history of prescriptions about English ... is in part a history of bogus rules, superstitions, half-baked logic, groaningly unhelpful lists, baffling abstract statements, false classifications, contemptuous insiderism and educational malfeasance."Likewise, advice on writing in general is marred by oversimplifications, half-heard advice, and idiosyncratic preferences--sometimes bizarre--passed off as professionalism.Your teachers, editors, mentors, and supervisors have a lot to answer for.And you have much to unlearn. Look inside and see.I have kept the advice succinct. If you need further explanation on any point, look me up. If you want to argue with me, you can try.
The Writer’s Everything QuarterlyTheWriter’s Everything QuarterlyEssays on Writing from Oc
Intuitive Editing
"I trust Tiffany Yates Martin with the editing process even more than I trust myself. Read this book and steal her secrets!"--Kelly Harms, Washington Post-bestselling author of The Overdue Life of Amy Byler"Tiffany Yates Martin is an exceptional editor, so of course her advice and counsel in Intuitive Editing is exceptional as well. Whether you're a seasoned author looking to fine-tune your craft, pacing, or tension or just starting out and looking for guidance on building overall structure and engaging characters, this book is a must-read that will take you from idea to finished manuscript."--New York Times-bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch"This book is a must have tool every author needs in their toolkit. When you are ready to go deeper, to dig into the revision process, using Tiffany's Intuitive Editing strategies will help you take your writing to the next level."--New York Times- and USA Today-bestselling author Steena Holmes"Authors, if you can't be lucky enough to have Tiffany as your editor, then Intuitive Editing is the next-best thing. Her advice is sound, thoughtful, no-nonsense and given with the compassion that every author and their book deserves."--Elisabeth Weed, literary agent, the Book Group"Editing your own writing can feel like doing your own brain surgery...."After you've completed your manuscript and you're standing at the foot of Revision Mountain, climbing to the summit can feel impossible. It's hard to look at your own writing with the objective eye needed to shape it into a tight, polished, publishable story--but just like writing, self-editing is a skill you can learn. Developmental editor Tiffany Yates Martin has spent her career in the publishing industry honing practical, actionable techniques to help authors evaluate how well their story is working, where it might not be, and how to fix it.With a clear, accessible, user-friendly approach, she leads writers through every step of deepening and elevating their own work, as well as how to approach the edit and develop their "editor brain," and how to solicit and process feedback. Intuitive Editing doesn't offer one-size-fits-all advice or rigid writing "rules"; instead it helps authors discover what works for their story and their style--to find the best version of their vision.Whether you're writing fiction, narrative nonfiction, or memoir; whether this your first story or your fiftieth, Intuitive Editing will give you the tools you need to edit and revise your own writing with inspiration, motivation, and confidence.Tiffany Yates Martin has spent nearly thirty years as an editor in the publishing industry, working with major publishers and bestselling authors as well as newer writers. She's led workshops and seminars for conferences and writers' groups across the country and is a frequent contributor to writers' sites and publications. Visit her at www.foxprinteditorial.com.
The Four Core Framework
What's at the core of every great story that leads readers to rush breathlessly to the end and then share it with all their friends? At Story Grid, we believe great stories are built of four essential elements: Core Needs, Core Life Values, Core Emotions, and Core Events. Whether you're writing an action adventure, a mystery, or a love story, these are the elements that spark the emotional connection and catharsis readers are looking for. Assembled into a Four Core Framework, the right need, life value, emotion, and event become the blueprint for a story that will satisfy readers and bring them back for more. In The Four Core Framework, Story Grid founder Shawn Coyne distills 30 years of experience in publishing into a compact guide for writers who want their novels, screenplays, and nonfiction to resonate and captivate. He dissects twelve kinds of stories and explains how to create the the ideal framework for each, including: A Core Need that will make your story an all-night read;A Core Life Value that will guide your characters' evolution;A Core Emotion that will enthrall your audience;and A Core Event that will provide the final payoff readers are waiting for.In The Four Core Framework, you'll learn to keep readers turning the pages and rushing to recommend your stories. Join Shawn to get down to the core of it all.
A Where Is the Cat
This book has a spoken word section & it also contains a stab at writing fiction. Basically, It's meant for entertainment & contains no inside information that you wouldn't be able to get other wise if you are aware.
London and the Modernist Bookshop
The modernist bookshop, best exemplified by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Co. and Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop, has received scant attention outside these more prominent examples. This writing will review how bookshops like David Archer's on Parton Street (London) in the 1930s were sites of distribution, publication, and networking. Parton Street, which also housed Lawrence & Wishart publishers and a briefly vibrant literary scene, will be approached from several contexts as a way of situating the modernist bookshop within both the book trade and the literary communities which it interacted with and made possible.
The Art of Talking
The Art of Talking is a guide to public speaking and a tool to improve anybody's skills in communication. A great talk is not just a talk about a great idea. A great talk is an experience of a lifetime for the audience, but above all, for the speaker. Most of the speakers, even the professional ones, despise the process of preparation. They are busy people, successful people, who don't have time to spare, so they don't want to waist their precious time going through a coaching and preparation process in order to deliver a better talk for an audience they actually don't care so much about. In The Art of Talking, Norberto Jansenson, TEDx speaker and coach for TEDx speakers, and professional and famous storytelling magician, writer, coach, speaker, artistic and creative director and consultant for some of the biggest companies in the world, shares 30 years of experience related to talking to reach, to make a difference, to transform. Transform the lives of the members of any audience, but above all, transform the lifes of the speakers he has worked with. Words are very powerful, and they can create, and destroy, worlds. Words can be magical, and when they are, they can transform lives. Every human being is a real magician, whose powers have been long forgotten. This book shows a door that leads to a new world (which is actually an ancient world), where magic words were used to produce miracles. Avra Kedavra, the most powerful magic word, comes from Aramaic, one of the oldest semitic languages, and means "I create, as I speak". We all talk, all the time, mostly without having any idea nor paying much attention to what we say, and to what our words produce out there. This book provides tools to change all that. To take responsibility for the power we have, to care, and to learn to communicate much better, not only from the stage, but in any field, in any situation, with all of our professional and personal acquaintances. So be it.
Frances Burney and Her Readers. the Negotiated Image.
Was it possible for an eighteenth-century woman to become a celebrity and remain respectable? Could women's commercial success in literature be reconciled with contemporary ideals of prescribed feminine domesticity? The rugged trajectory marked by the critical reception of the works by Frances Burney (1752-1840), an English novelist, diarist and playwright, reveals the dilemmas she faced at different stages of her career from a debutante to an acclaimed literary figure. Burney's long life is set against the background of changing conventions in culture consumption and appreciation, and the book highlights the successes and failures of the techniques which the author employed in her texts for projecting a favourable image of herself as a woman and writer.
Cursive Handwriting Workbook for AdultsLearn Cursive Writing for Adults (Adult Cursive Han
From the trusted authority in handwriting and penmanship teaching comes the Cursive Handwriting Workbook for Adults.Specially designed for adults, this 110-page comprehensive workbook features age-appropriate exercises that will take adults from beginning cursive to fluently writing sentences and paragraphs. Words and sentences specifically selected for adults. Forming Letters - Learn how to correctly form every letter of the alphabet - both uppercase and lowercase. Joining Letters - Learn how to connect letters together correctly. Practice words - Write a selection of words, which increase in complexity as you progress. Write Sentences - Now you can confidently write full sentences and paragraphs using the skills you have learnt. Building Mastery - Each section builds on the previous one until you are fluently writing in cursive. Workbook details 8.5" x 11" - Large size provides plenty of room for writing inside. 110 pages - with more than 100 pages of writing exercises. High-quality paper - 60gm. From Scholdeners - the trusted name in writing education. Made in the USA.
