Sentences with phrase «certain kinds of writing»

It's a way of crowdsourcing research and editing for your book, with immediate feedback that can be highly useful for certain kinds of writing.

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That jibes with what Stewart suggests, that certain kinds of books — genre stuff like fan fiction or romance — work better digitally, but print is still a more desirable way to digest the really good meaty writing.

Albert Einstein would later write about her, «Her strength, her purity of will, her austerity toward herself, her objectivity, her incorruptible judgment - all these were of a kind seldom found in a single individual... Once she had recognized a certain way as a right one, she pursued it without compromise and with extreme tenacity.»

For a certain kind of person (i.e., the hermetic kind), blogging is a true dream job: You get to write about your passions, test out new products / recipes / lifehacks (or whatever your specialty is), and earn money through advertising or by earning sponsorships from companies in exchange for reviews — all without ever needing to get out of bed.

In some sense, indeed, Kierkegaard's life could be written as a kind of dark comedy; despite his premature death, and a great number of sadnesses that afflicted him along the way, there was something enchantingly absurd about his character, a certain benign perversity that often prompted him to make himself willfully ridiculous, and a peculiarly touching element of the ludicrous that clung to him all the way to his early grave.

William James wrote that he could not accept any rule of thinking that would keep him from accepting «certain kinds of truths if those kinds of truths were really there.»

«There are some Christians,» he wrote, «who feel a certain satisfaction» a kind of Schadenfreude» at the sudden collapse of the liberal idealism of the nineteenth century and the loss of hope in the future of modern civilization.

• There is an «unlovely tendency» in certain kinds of liberalism, writes Peter Berkowitz in the Wilson Quarterly, to assume that people who disagree with you are simply unreasonable.

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.

«There is nothing like a good shock of pain,» writes C.S. Lewis in The Silver Chair, «for dissolving certain kinds of magic.»

But what's interesting, especially about that one, and that one [is a] piece written by Larry Greenemeier, was that, you know, all the popular science fiction treatments of that kind have it [suddenly] happening and conflict between humans but through Larry's reporting it seems more likely that we will see it coming; that machine self - awareness will occur in a certain kind of stepwise fashion where they're getting better at certain tasks; [that they'll be able to do] autonomous activities, and from there that you can actually see them develop, and it shouldn't come up as a big surprise as it if finally happens.

It seems likely, the researchers wrote, that it has to do with migration patterns and the pressures that came with the availability or lack of availability of different kinds of foods in certain environments.

The Huffington Post even talked about Yelp being a place where romantic connections are made, simply because people connected to someone else's writing or the kind of critiques and praises they gave to certain restaurants, bars or coffee shops in their areas.

Mike Birbiglia's sensitive, funny, sad, honest film Don't Think Twice, which has more affection for and understanding of a certain kind of comedy person than perhaps any piece of fiction that's ever been written about them.

So while Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a hugely enjoyable movie - going experience, there's a certain cynicism in Goldman's writing that becomes increasingly apparent the more times you watch the film, and which casts him as a kind of puppet - master pulling our strings.

She wrote and starred in films shot around the city, which created a certain kind of recognition.

It takes a certain kind of mindset to spend one's days writing code — Bujalski, whose earlier films mostly orbited around bohemian - hipster types, seems at ease amidst the pasty introverts participating in the weekend - long hotel - set chess tournament that gives the film its narrative spine.

When going over my records, I noticed that certain students continued to make the same kinds of errors in every writing assignment they turned in.

A new law in New Jersey will require that schools obtain parents» written consent before asking students certain kinds of personal questions in surveys.

The SWAP accomplishes this goal by making teacher candidates privy to practicing secondary teachers» decision - making (e.g., their rationales for giving certain kinds of assignments and feedback), as well as to the results of those decisions (e.g., their assignment sheets and feedback on student writing).

I said that I supported certain kinds of charter schools, in certain contexts, so I'm not sure how this amounts to writing off «the entire model.»

We somehow managed to build FUBU into a lifestyle brand, a line that seemed to symbolize a certain kind of success, a certain way of expressing yourself, John writes.

«It struck me as kind of funny that so many writers immediately limit themselves with a certain page restriction when they set out to write a story, especially when print technology and the major distribution systems are perfectly capable of handling stories of basically any length,» Prabhaker tells us.

ARCs should be sent to someone in your public library system, to media such as Publishers Weekly and Booklist, and certain other media who are likely to review the kind of book you've written.

Even though every writer has the propensity to be didactic, certain steps can be taken in revision to avoid this kind of writing:

If you're writing literary fiction or historical fiction or some genres of romance, a certain kind of in depth and often poetic description can be very necessary, and will be missed.

While it is true it is easier to show someone they have a need for something especially if it is prescriptive, when you write certain kinds of NF for things that are one - offs (like pregnancy or divorce — events that happen once and people move on) it isn't worth the time (as much) to develop an email list and try to get «fans.»

After start writing or working on your coursework writing, bound yourself in a certain timetable and follow the timetable strictly to avoid any kind of rush writing.

So I wrote that story, «Hurricanes Anonymous,» that was really ratcheted down and limited in a certain way, as a kind of test run to see if I could do that over a bigger novel.

Yes, I think the snarki - ness has to do with certain types of writers thinking that other kinds of writers are beneath them, and that the readers of the books written by those writers are simple minded.

Writing any kind of essay students should stick to certain rules concerning essay format.

When speaking about term papers one should notice that a student has to write this kind of assignment within a certain period of time, usually it is a semester.

He has written a series of «Tips for Technologists» articles here at Publishing Perspectives and — especially nice in the kind of week some of us are having — he writes a Zen of Technology blog, the kind of thing you wish you could get certain people to read, enough said.

Writing an essay for college admission takes a certain kind of writer.

How to Write a Narrative Essay Step By Step A narrative essay is a kind of essay writing which is more or less follows the outline of story writing and includes certain subjective, experimental and

I won't be writing shit to accidentally trick readers looking for a good story, but I will try to connect with and satisfy readers who are searching for (and willing to pay for) a certain kind of reading experience.

State laws related to bad checks vary, and in some states you may find yourself unable to sue check writers who write post-dated checks, two - party checks and certain other kinds of bad checks.

So if I knew that a certain kind of ad paid especially well, I could write about that topic and try to bump my ad revenue in that way.

«I think there's certain reviews that are written more to get clicked on than they are to actually accurately reflect the quality of the game, and that kind of bums me out,» explained Spencer as he approved a new batch of carefully - edited screenshots and trailers that bore almost no resemblance to the actual game they were marketing.

First off, I would tell them to read this review, and after they finished reading it they would still be eager to try it out I would gladly give my thumbs up, but if something I wrote in this review put you off the idea then wait, wait for more patches to come in, because I am certain Avalanche Studios wants this game to run smooth, but are hard at work trying to patch it up and have it working full time for you, but I am personally tired of this kind of mentality.

It depends on the kind of book you're writing, what you're trying to disclose or explain, whether you're going to have someone representing a certain style or a certain era or a certain whatever.

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Just as a contract written on a Kleenex tissue in pencil, signed with an X, can be a legally effective contract but is unlikely to be acceptable in commercial practice, so too certain kind of electronic communications will not satisfy basic business considerations.

In other words, even if the Working Group comes up with comprehensive guidelines, unless they can find a way to force businesses to take part in any kind of ODR process, we have little hope that anything will come of them... Furthermore, since certain delegations (including Canada's) and observers (including ourselves) have already decided not to take part in this month's session, the writing seems to already be on the wall.

Indeed, the importance of this manual signing activity in conferring the significance of important legal actions is memorialized in a group of statutes collectively known as the «statute of frauds» which says that certain kinds of legal acts are only legally effective if they are in writing and «signed» by the party against whom the document will be enforced.

Next week I will have the opportunity to join with a number of colleagues on a panel to discuss with law school students the importance of legal research and writing, largely in anticipation of them becoming lawyers on graduation and needing to have certain skills in order to excel in their profession (and I think it is great that this law school is making this kind of session available to students).

If you know that a certain legal specialist deals with an area of the world that you're interested in, you can narrow by specialists as well, and you can search we have something called the global legal monitor, that's kind of like a newspaper almost for foreign legal materials and they will actually write like a newspaper article about a legal happening that's happened around the world and they will cite to the primary sources.

In the landmark case of Hunter v Southam, [1984] 2 SCR 145 Justice Brian Dickson, writing for a unanimous court, said this about the different paths of Canadian and American history, at p. 6 (QL): «The American courts have had the advantage of a number of specific prerequisites articulated in the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as well as a history of colonial opposition to certain Crown investigatory practices from which to draw out the nature of the interests protected by that Amendment and the kinds of conduct it proscribes.

Those can be in VR, those can be in certain kinds of high - end cinema production tasks where most of the software out there that's been written to target those doesn't know how to balance itself well across multiple GPUs but can scale across a single large GPU.»

The firm specializes in writing algorithms that tease out individuals» political leanings and receptiveness to certain kinds of messages (see Facebook Attempts to Explain Data Leak, Denies «Breach»).