I am trying to plan the development of an application which would likely run as a service. This service would connect to a number of "devices" (RFID, Cameras, etc.) and listen/pull the data from these devices to then process in any number of ways. When considering the devices, there a...
Recent episodes have tackled topics such as generating emotion in your reader, what happens when you let plot drive your characters, and the importance of understanding your audience. Who Should Listen to This Podcast: Aspiring writers and authors who want to “kick writing in the butt one word...
haveconstituteda sort of “bill of lading” or a record of indebtedness. To serve as a reminder of the contents of the envelope so that every reader would not need to break open the envelope to read the contents, corresponding shapes were impressed upon the envelope. But if the content ...
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In this case, the transition words “Despite the previous arguments,” suggest that the reader should not believe paragraph A and instead should consider the writer’s reasons for viewing El Pais’s democracy as suspect. As t...
To love your story, your reader needs to be engaged with your characters. But the zero draft isn’t the time to worry about that. If I know the character well and the words flow about that person, I include as much about the character as I want. ...
James A. PennyAssessing WritingPenny, J. 2003. Reading high stakes writing samples: My life as a reader. Assessing Writing 8, no. 3: 192-215.Penny, J. A. (2003). Reading high stakes writing samples: My life as a reader. Assessing Writing 8, 192-215....
Perhaps, as a lifelong reader, I was eager to understand how stories worked their magic. But taking the class would be impossible: I wasn’t even on the waitlist. That’s when the teacher asked for a volunteer to submit the first workshop story. Silence blanketed the room. No one ...
1Dear Editor,As student reader, I am writing to talk about the English textbooks publishing by your house. These books have much advantages. One of them is that we can find a variety about topics, such as science, culture, and history. These topics, I think, were very popular with us ...
Doesn’t it make you want to quit reading and surf the web or call a friend? Putting yourself in the reader’s position Instead of reading your draft as if you wrote it and know what you meant, try reading it as if ...