Sentences with phrase «author does more work»

Do they have the power to increase marketing and exposure or is it just self - publishing where the author does more work and never sees royalties?

Not exact matches

Although this commitment is more modest than the one advocated in Making it Simple, a report I authored for the Mowat Centre, the goal of reducing input costs for manufacturers was identified as a key priority in the paper, which suggested there was more work to be done on this front:

This one statistic alone should make all employers more interested in boosting bliss: Truly cheerful employees spend about 80 % of their time at work doing what they're there to do; the least content spend only 40 % of their time on job - related activities, according to a survey by workplace happiness consultant and author Jessica Pryce - Jones.

Fredrick Petrie, author of «The End of Work: Financial Planning for People With Better Things To Do,» recommends «taxing» yourself in order to get more money out of your wallet and into the bank — this way you'll make savings a priority from the get - go, rather than budgeting everything else first and then seeing what is left over for savings.

Today, the average paper has four times as many authors as it did then and the work being done is far more interdisciplinary and done at greater distances than in the past.

Chris Guillebeau, author of Born for This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do, has some more unusual suggestions.

The following statistic alone should make all employers more interested in boosting bliss: Truly cheerful employees spend about 80 % of their time at work doing what they're there to do (even happy people need an Instagram break); the least content spend only 40 % of their day on job - related activities, according to a survey by workplace happiness consultant and author Jessica Pryce - Jones.

This book is more than a collection of apocalyptic horror stories; it is in the authors» characterization a «can - do» book: a book about what you [meaning all of us] tan do to help restore the work ethic.»

Collingwood interprets this characterization as follows: «In Whitehead the resemblance is more with Hegel; and the author, though he does not seem to be acquainted with Hegel, is not wholly unaware of this, for he describes the book as an attempt to do over again the work of «idealism,» «but from a realist point of view.»

I was under the impression his writings were done while he was alive... and there are many more but you are too daft to accept any authors own works which you might expect from the guy who others claimed was the son of the creator of he universe in a time when they had in fact already invented writing...

I do believe it will give is a little sanity but as the author has mention before; there is a lack of passion and motivation and the moment Wenger holds them accountable for this then there will be know change in the players questionable attitude.i think you leaving out ozil and Sanchez will provide more fuel for the fire and it will need to address differently, the three at the back that put Chelsea to the sword a few seasons ago was new but worked but now we are faced with a conundrum.

According to Christine Koh, one of the authors of the book Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More By Doing Less, «It's about identifying your unique values and paring down and prioritizing so you can find what works for your family.»

One indication that more work needs to be done is that the junctions routinely broke down after being switched more than about 10 times, says Jonathan Green, a physics and chemistry Ph.D. candidate in Heath's lab and first author of the report published online January 24 in Nature.

Jones's work has shown that, for single retraction cases — thereby excluding the more extreme cases of misconduct that can lead to multiple retractions — among the members of an author team, more eminent authors experience a smaller citation penalty than do their less eminent coauthors.

The authors note that more work must be done, however, because only one of these species engaged in a full cycle of listening and speaking in which the artificial cells sensed the molecules coming from the bacteria, and the bacteria could perceive the chemical signal sent in return.

«We see a dose - response relationship between frequency of night shift work and type 2 diabetes, where the more often people do shift work, the greater their likelihood of having the disease, regardless of genetic predisposition,» said co-first author Céline Vetter, PhD who conducted this work while at the Channing Division of Network Medicine at BWH, along with co-first author Hassan S. Dashti, PhD, RD. Vetter is now an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

The authors say more work needs to be done on establishing exactly what foods are best for promoting ideal gut conditions, however they conclude: «We think a diet high in fruits and vegetables is best as these are rich in fibre / complex carbohydrates, which are important because butyrate - producing species are dependent upon them indirectly via cross-feeding relations with fibre degraders.

«The results position TRPV4 as a new target for preventing and treating sunburn, and probably chronic sun damage including skin cancer or skin photo - aging, though more work must be done before TRPV4 inhibitors can become part of the sun defense arsenal, perhaps in new kinds of skin cream, or to treat chronic sun damage,» said Steinhoff, co-senior author of the study.

«This was important, because we forced the fish to do more work to receive [the original dose of] the drug, and they were more than willing to do more work,» said senior author Randall T. Peterson, Ph.D., professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at U of U Health.

On June 30, following on work published in the scientific journal Nature by STRI post-doctoral fellow, Scott Mangan, a group of 50 researchers from 12 countries published a paper in Science (lead author, Joe LaManna, Washington University in St. Louis) showing that close plant relatives make bad neighbors and that the negative interactions between relatives are stronger in the tropics, which may explain why tropical forests are so rich in species diversity: Because plants do not do well next to their relatives, there is more space for non-relatives to fill.

«There is much more work to be done,» says Andres Martinez, lead author and research engineer at IIHR — Hydroscience & Engineering at the University of Iowa.

However, the authors caution that these regional differences may reflect variation in the ecology of bats in the various areas, and more work needs to be done to understand this.

These authors report empirical data on the benefits that a Ph.D. candidate may gain if he or she publishes work, and note that Ph.D. students are more likely to do this with adequate encouragement from their supervisors.

(Typically, the first author is a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow and the last is a more senior faculty member; they are often affiliated with the same lab, but do not necessarily work closely together.)

«More work needs to be done to better understand the causes of these differences, so that steps can be taken to improve outcomes for mothers and babies,» study lead author Dr. Paul Aylin, of Imperial College London's School of Public Health, said in a college news release.

«Reducing smoking in movies probably helped to reduce rates of smoking in kids,» says study author James D. Sargent, MD, a professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School and the codirector of the Cancer Control Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center, both in Lebanon, N.H. «We are on the right track aiming at movies, yet half of movies still contain smoking and more work needs to be done.»

Why do nt you ask DR Louis Ignarro Nobelpricewinner in medicin for his work on Nitric Oxide and author of the book NO more heartdisease.He is currently involved in the nutritional advisoryboard at Herbalife and keen marathonrunner himself.He started compete 2004 and in 4 years have completed 13 races.

In addition to hundreds of counseling sessions and the immeasurable work he's done with eHarmony, Neil has authored more than 10 books, has been interviewed more than 7,000 times, and has written dozens of articles for publications like The Huffington Post.

And the movie does have its flaws: for such a supposedly important author, Eiffel's work sounds like it has more in common with Oprah's Book Club than Saul Bellow, those two boobs from the Sonic Drive - Thru commercials are inexplicably cast as co-workers (perhaps to contribute to the entire atmosphere of unreality), and the whole thing plays like Charlie Kaufman Lite... blurring the lines of reality and unreality, but without the messy cynicism.

The other actors all do good work but their characters seem more like an author's construct than real people.

Close reading usually requires that you do more than just read what the text says, but that you try to understand how the text works (why the author used a particular word or structure).

Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, authors of The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work, describe how small victories promote a more positive inner life, which «also leads people to do better work.&raWork, describe how small victories promote a more positive inner life, which «also leads people to do better work.&rawork.»

Report authors Dr Michelle Anderson, Dr Bronwyn Hinz and Hannah Matus say the aim of the «paradigm shifters» initiative was to develop students who are more entrepreneurial - minded and complement work that is already being done.

The authors argue that, because most Title I funds are spend on programs and services that don't do much to help students, «A more fruitful discussion would focus on how states and districts can spend their money effectively, by using evidence to identify programs that work on which Title I funds should be spent.»

The data reported suggest that teacher authors may have modeled the learning strategy for students before small group work more often than the field - testing teachers did in practice.

Now, however, with digital book formats and the ability to publish on your own through a couple dozen different outlets that all share revenues on about a 70:30 split with the author, maybe there's a lot more work to do as an author, but at least the system is set up to reward you the right way.

I do wish libraries would buy more copies of independent work, for example, especially of local authors and that book clubs would take advantage.

Join Author Groups You can learn a lot by discussing what works and more importantly what doesn't work.

The simple fact is that the more authors can do to showcase their work and interact with interested parties the better.

Well, I don't think I have a lot of experience reading off - book writing by authors, but I do start getting irritated when authors work in more and more personal pet social issues into books.

The more we can do to help authors navigate the tricky learning curve of either self - publishing or working with agents towards a trad publishing contract the better!

Adding that she doesn't feel a flat royalty rate would ultimately work to get authors a better payout, Weltz said she would like to see escalators more regularly built into the e-book royalty rate and has already had success achieving this in the international market.

To the (limited) extent that there is a difference between the usage of «writer» and «author» in popular parlance, it would seem to be more to do with length and independence of the work, than the issues Michael is raising.

When I tell these would - be authors the truth of the matter, as I have learned being in and around the publishing business for over twenty years, they decide that they should buy a few more lottery tickets because they have a better chance at making big money doing that, and it's a lot less work.

The minute someone gets defensive about any of this, doesn't think there's always more to learn about writing or publishing, is content with the mediocrity of a couple hundred sales of their work on Amazon, or thinks they can beat the tried - and - true system of years of hard work and dedication it takes to be a respected author, I know I'm talking to a hobbyist.

At the same time, electronic publishing has allowed brilliant authors who are controversial and can't find a traditional deal, or, did not care to wait years to publish, an opportunity to share their work and get paid more equitably for it.

He does a good job and he also has the files to all my earlier books, so it's easy to have him update the old ones at the same time (as you publish more work, you'll want to update your «also by the author» lists in the earlier books).

Do you really think you deserve to get paid more per page than other authors, just because you write shorter works?

It's always fantastic to see indie authors take matters in their own hands and make it work — and, more importantly, share with the community what they did to make it work.

You work with a lot of authors in the self - publishing field, would you say most of your authors are new to self - publishing or do you work with more established authors too?