If you live in France, you may find you are asked to write an ‘Attestation sur L’Honneur’ or a sworn statement. So, what is this document, when might you need to write one, and how do you go about writing it? Here’s what you need to know. ...
1. CREATE METAPHORS AS AN INSIDER WINK.Use your words to paint pictures in the context of your audience. Reflect their experiences. Use their language. Help them be seen. And delight your reader… insider to insider. Example:Aha Media Group is a marketing agency that serves (in part) healt...
As Japanese is a language of syllables, it is awkward to translate initials. The method used is to translate how the letters are pronounced. For example, the letter “A” is エー which has the romaji e-. This also means that the single letter “W” takes five symbols to write in ...
Nicol Turner Lee:And that's where my work in particular has become really interesting to me as a person who is looking at this as, you know, the use of proxies and the use of data. For me, it becomes what part of the model is much more injurious to respondents and to outcomes. An...
After the Dark Ages, the only people who read or write belonged to the Church. Their lingua franca? Latin. Later, while everyone else worked the farm, only rich kids could afford to waste their time learning Latin. From then on, Latin implied education and, in turn, wealth. Latin became...
Addressing and mailing the postcard are integral final steps. Write the recipient’s full name and address on each designated line, double-checking to ensure accuracy. Also, be sure to attach appropriate postage; this might involve purchasing specific stamps if sending from abroad; when in doubt...
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I write a lot of thank you notes. I thank donors of organizations that I support, gift givers after the holidays and birthdays, friends who have invited me over for dinner, guest speakers who come to my classes, community partners who work with my students, colleagues who help me solve pr...
Be very careful about the sources you use to find information–if something seems outrageous or fishy, check Snopes before you go off. 4. Script yourself. Going into a phone call cold always results in disaster for me, so I tend to write down a couple of key points to make before I ...
Modern Standard Arabic isn’t spoken by anyone on Earth as a native language. It’s archaic, it’s grammatically more complicated to learn than spoken dialects and you will understand virtually nobody when you travel to the Arab world (apart from the TV). Save yourself the regret and read...