Sentences with phrase «as authors and readers»

In the writing world, those connections between people who don't really know each other — such as authors and readers — mean that readers might be more supportive of authors they feel connections with.

I know we're all familiar with it here, and have discussed the pros and cons as both authors and readers, but I still find that I have to explain it when I bring it up on social media, and there are a lot of misconceptions out there surrounding it.

This system rewards short fiction and punishes longer works, as authors and readers are more interested in the hearts than they are in reading other people's writing.

As authors and readers, it would be healthy for Amazon to get some strong competition, especially with regard to the ebook market.

This singular essay on our current predicament as authors and readers (and that means everyone) reveals the new possibilities of world building in serious literature.

If other places want my business as an author and reader, I'm all ears, but you're going to have to give me a reason that boils down to more than «Amazon is evil.»

As an author and a reader, my goal this year is to find new readers and to find more diverse authors and find more diverse stories.

Suddenly the barrier between you as an author and your readers is removed.

The steps may be small, and it may not seem like an improvement to everybody, but I appreciate the effort — both as an author and a reader.

I'm on Goodreads as an author and a reader, but I know I haven't fully grasped all that's available out there.

It's the fundamental, unwritten and unspoken contract between you as an author and your readers.

The head of publisher Hachette has claimed ebooks are a failure — but as an author and a reader, they've completely changed my life

Not exact matches

The answers are rarely so straightforward, a point the authors make abundantly clear as they walk readers through the logic and evolution of the modern day org.

Charles Duhigg, staff writer for The New York Times and author of The Power of Habit, answers questions from readers on Quora on topics ranging from how to develop a blogging habit to what it's like to work as a journalist.

Lastly, our good friends at the Incrementum Fund, Ronald Stoeferle and Mark Valek, who our readers know as the authors the annual «In Gold We Trust» report, have released the inaugural issue of their new Crypto Research Report this December in cooperation with Demelza Kelso Hays and several other contributors.

It was Philip Fisher, author of the groundbreaking Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, who often exhorted his readers to be cautious about trading in the stock of a company they have known for many years and come to understand well for one with which they are not as familiar as it introduces different types of risk.

Privileged authors imply privileged readers, those who are like them with respect to background, experience, and interests, and who as a consequence respond appreciatively to what they have to say.

The issue seems rather to be whether the advantages of such moves outweigh their potential for creating confusion and for misleading not only readers but authors as well.

Given the author's remarkable learning, most readers are likely to learn a great deal, especially when he uses Augustine's sermons as source material; but the captious tone and prosecutorial zeal of the effort starts to grate as early as the first chapter.

Indeed, it can even be read as a mockery of the whole literary enterprise, pairing dull and uncomprehending readers who ploddingly manage to miss the obvious, with clever authors (both the fictional Vereker and the actual James) who feel compelled to play the trickster, taunting their readers with the hint that there is something — indeed, the whole point of it all — that they don't get.

Authors often use an avatar in their fiction stories — it is not Jack that climbs the beanstalk, it is the author... and many times, it is the reader that years later «lives» the story as they read it.

They allow the poem to be utterly serious when its author wants it to be (one can not imagine such playfulness being allowed in the climactic visions of Paradiso XXXIII), and they allow readers to think that Dante is at least as sane as they are.

Exploring some of the lesser - known metaphors and imagery employed by biblical authors to describe God, Winner lyrically invites the reader to imagine God as clothing, laughter, flame, food, wine, and a laboring woman.

For the moment, though, it seems as though Hays's main concern is to convince readers (and fellow scholars) that the authors of the Gospels had high Christologies and, therefore, that belief in Jesus's divinity is authentic to the first century.

Hays also seems narrow when he encourages readers to read the OT principally as narrative and not as a «source of oracles, prooftexts, or halakhic regulations,» apparently disqualifying many early Christian authors who cited Scripture in this way.

Eliade, who was for many years at the University of Chicago, will be familiar to most readers as the author of the four - volume A History of Religious Ideas and numerous other books dealing with religion and myth in human history.

Many readers who agree that the U.S. was intended to be a republic and not an empire will nonetheless disagree with what can only be described as the author's radical isolationism, including his restated doubts as to whether World War II was ours to fight and his suggestion that Israel is, at least in the long term, a lost cause.

The bulk of academic writing in my discipline is not really writing but a collection of marks on paper put down in response to similar marks put down in response to other marks put down in response to... The authors of these texts do not have a conception of writing as an art, or of the need for the imagery, inflection, and rhythm that hold open the mind of the reader so that the thought can slip past them into his soul.

I challenge all readers to read the chapters preceding Isaiah 53 (chapters 41 thru 52) and you will see for yourself that the author of Isaiah is referring to the nation of Israel as the «suffering servant», not to the future messiah, and therefore, not to Jesus.

And may no noise - making busybody interfere to snatch me out of my carefree content as the author of a little piece, or prevent a kind and benevolent reader from examining it at his leisure, to see if it contains anything that he can uAnd may no noise - making busybody interfere to snatch me out of my carefree content as the author of a little piece, or prevent a kind and benevolent reader from examining it at his leisure, to see if it contains anything that he can uand benevolent reader from examining it at his leisure, to see if it contains anything that he can use.

Indeed, validity in interpretation can only occur when the otherness of the text, as it is conveyed by the textual structures of the implied author and the implied reader, is realized by the structured acts of the actual reader.

The more acutely the actual reader can perceive that «network of response - inviting structures» of the reader implied by the author, and fulfill that role as designed by the author, the more adequate the construal of meaning will be.

My case was one in which the author, editor and reader are all known entities (in fact, they all know each other personally); the reading takes place in the exact same cultural and social context as the writing and editing; and the reader is himself a really smart guy, Ivy - league Ph.D. and all, who had spent a decade training the editor to be a certain kind of editor, with specific tools unique to the specific publication's aims.

In interpretation, the reader entertains propositions whose logical subjects include entities in the reader's (and author's) past world; only as such do they become components of the interpreter's «forms of subjectivity»; so there is always an element of objective reference.

Most of the current hermeneutical options tend toward reduction or exclusion in the act of interpretation, as when they utilize either structuralist or «historical - critical» methods, focus on either sociological data or «ideas,» and locate «meaning» in the internal «world» of the text, or in the external reality to which it refers, or in the author's intention, or iii the reader's response (see OTIPP 1).

Like its predecessors, his new book is layered with statistical quirks and story twists, as the author crafts a compelling and ambitious argument designed to challenge and even change the reader's view of the world.

Building upon his understanding that written texts can burst the world of the author, and indeed that of the reader as well, and upon his understanding that different genres accomplish this in different ways, Ricoeur comes to his understanding of «the world of the text» or, in other citations, «the world in front of the text,» by which he means «the... world intended beyond the text as its reference.

Five times in this letter, the author warns his readers what could happen to them if they reject Christianity and return to their old way of living as Jews.

Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy calls to mind Berger's caution because the governing ambition of the book» though expressed sotto voce» is to challenge its readers to promote and build cities that aspire to equal if not surpass the most beautiful cities of the Western world» and because its author, David Mayernik, is as aware as anyone that the culture and institutions of modernity are not currently conducive to the creation of such cities.

To situate Mapplethorpe, et al., within the ranks of Catholicism requires Heartney to stretch terms such as «Catholic» and «sacramental» into forms devoid of theological meaning, and Heartney's tendentious commentary on art requires from the reader a measure of generosity that the author never extends to her ideological foes.

Despite the author's idiosyncratic and condescending substitution of nicknames for Polish surnames he assumes readers will not be able to keep straight, the story is fast - paced and keeps in play the action in Warsaw as well as the diplomatic dramas in London, Moscow, and Washington.

As author of over 70 books with worldwide sales of over 85 million, and inspiration to readers of all ages, his passing is an immense loss.

As you can guess from the foregoing description, Lunch Money is meant to be a highly practical resource for managers of school food services departments, and it is they, not lay readers, who are addressed directly by the author in this book.

Here at Little Hearts our readers have BIG hearts full of love for little people and have joined together to Give the Gift of Gentle Parenting and Give the Gift of Life, raising funds to donate gentle parenting books and resources in bulk to hospitals for new parent bags, to children's hospitals, and to crisis family centers and also to help with author L.R.Knost's medical expenses as she battles a rare neuroendocrine cancer.

The author reminds readers, «The ability to handle airway obstruction and to ventilate with a bag and a mask are equally as important, if not more important, than the ability to intubate.

Thirdly: If a book doesn't acknowledge point number two then it is likely to be causing guilt or shame to be felt by those who don't agree with the experiences of the author and is therefore one which I would see as causing readers to lose their own sense of self.

The author comes across to the reader as an intelligent, hard working and rather detached politician who was seriously committed to achieve great changes in wider education policy to help the disadvantaged.

And of course the big take away is, as the author says, we have to be very careful when we are changing the experience for our readers.

For instance, a new politics blog called Swampland features Ana Marie Cox and Joe Klein, among other authors, and uses at least a few standard blog features such as reader comments and permalinks.

All too often readers will try to pigeon hole a blog's author as Democrat, Republican, conservative or liberal leaning, and so on and so forth.