Sentences with phrase «few writing groups»

It doesn't appear because one claims membership in a few writing groups.

Check out a few writing groups like this one on Goodreads, for example.

Not exact matches

«Plaintiffs» brief illustrates the views of those who may never have even laid eyes on the weapons they vilify,» the group wrote, «much less squeezed off a few rounds at the range, like millions of peaceful, law - abiding Americans regularly do.»

In 2014, I wrote an analysis of such a situation on my personal blog, examining the message board postings of a group of men and women who lost everything (and then some, in a few cases) betting on the stock of a single business called G.T. Advanced Technologies.

A group purporting to represent Internet interests, mostly from the US but including a few Canadians (Professor Geist for one), has written to the lead ministers responsible for the NAFTA negotiations.

I wrote this one w few weeks ago following a discussion in my Facebook group, Free - range Christians, on how to recognise a spiritual abuser.

When I'm writing the stories about a few of these homeless and runaway teens, I'm thinking in terms of kids out on the streets without their families, kids that mostly fall into the thirteen to eighteen or twenty age group.

Very few Christian groups believe that there have been additional books added to the Bible since the book of Revelation was written in the first century A.D..

«We would be remiss in our duty to you and our students if we did not challenge your continuing misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and sick, and gives more tax breaks to the wealthiest few,» the group wrote in a letter to the lawmaker.

So you refuse to believe in the solid evidence of millions of years of bone fossils showing that all species, including humans, have evolved... and instead you choose to believe a book written a thousand years ago by a group men just trying to teach a few morals?

Besides being compensated by the same group for her time and expenses in appearing at a news conference in New York a few years ago, «that is the only time [she] received compensation for her effort,» Mokotoff wrote in an e-mail.

I shall later write a few more words explaining all this; but right now we must remember that ultimately every human race, every people, every religious, political, and social group has its own style of thinking and speaking.

(So that when you read a news story, for instance, you might also get a composite assessment value that was assigned directly from other readers without them ever having to express such assessment via speaking, writing, etc. if a group of people are on the scene of some event covered by the news, then obviously there would be great value in knowing some directly transferred assessment values from their brains, rather than what today we get as a summary from a few reporters plus maybe a few witnesses that still have to express what they saw.)

These groups are major players in international development and poverty relief; World Vision's president, Rich Stearns, wrote for CT a few years ago that its $ 2.8 billion budget ranks among the countries with the 15 biggest economies in the world for overseas assistance.

In the writing of American religious history, a few once - lonely seniors like Timothy L. Smith have been joined by a younger group that shines: Harry Stout at Yale, Grant Wacker at North Carolina, Nathan Hatch at Notre Dame, Mark Noll and Joel Carpenter at Wheaton, George Marsden at Duke are only the first that come to mind.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Nowadays, though, someone like, say, Media Matters can pick up one of your columns and distribute it to a very different group of readers, including a few who might not share the assumptions underlying a statement like this, which you wrote yesterday in response to Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright's now - famous screed:

A few months later, in October, J - P Group wrote a $ 2,000 check to the campaign of Gov. George Pataki, the man whose appointees ran the ESDC that awarded the tax break.

«We found potentially important changes in other outcomes; in particular, fewer participants in the nasal irrigation group than in the no - irrigation group had headaches, used over-the-counter medications and intended to consult a doctor in future episodes,» write the authors.

This cultural group, which established extensive trade networks and colonies across the Mediterranean region, left behind few written records, perhaps because they wrote on papyrus rather than clay.

Students in all three groups then looked at a list of 30 words — including food, trees, and sadness — and, after spending a few minutes on other tasks, had to write down as many of the listed words as they could.

«Exploratory analyses of several secondary outcomes indicated that the sedation protocol was associated with a difference in patients» sedation experience; patients in the intervention group were able to be safely managed in a more awake and calm state while intubated, receiving fewer days of opioid exposure and fewer sedative classes without an increase in inadequate pain or sedation management or clinically significant iatrogenic [consequence of treatment] withdrawal compared with patients receiving usual care, but they experienced more days with reported pain and agitation, suggesting a complex relationship among wakefulness, pain, and agitation,» the authors write.

To begin with, it takes a few years of teaching to really understand — let's say, if you teach ninth grade — what the median skill level is for a group of 14 - year - olds (reading, writing, speaking, thinking, emotional, etc.) There's a saying: «Teach to the middle.»

We are sympathetic to the procedure once prevalent in England: schools were assessed by individuals or groups — dubbed «inspectors» — that came to visit the campus for a few days, looked widely and listened carefully, and wrote up their impressions and recommendations.

«We've heard several times over the past few years that nothing is more cognitively and physically taxing in the project - learning environment than managing student work groups,» McDowell writes in «Leading Student Work Groups in the 21st Century,» an in - progress article that discusses the tools, best practices, and scholarly strategies for student work groups in the project - learning envirogroups,» McDowell writes in «Leading Student Work Groups in the 21st Century,» an in - progress article that discusses the tools, best practices, and scholarly strategies for student work groups in the project - learning enviroGroups in the 21st Century,» an in - progress article that discusses the tools, best practices, and scholarly strategies for student work groups in the project - learning envirogroups in the project - learning environment.

The American high school, once an austere brick building serving a few hundred children, mostly white boys, who studied reading, writing, and arithmetic, has grown into a sprawling mall complex for thousands of boys and girls, of various ethnic groups, offering something — from algebra to band and basketball — for everyone.

THis is the source of the problem: «The writing group of 27 contained few educators, but a significant number of representatives of the testing industry.

[There is a small group of ELL student who are exempt from taking the reading and writing portions of the CMT or CAPT. ELL Students are exempt if they have enrolled for the first time in a U.S. school and have attended school for fewer than 12 calendar months].

It was just a few weeks ago that CT News Junkie columnist Sarah Darer Littman wrote a scathing column on the ethics problems associated with the New York based corporate education reform industry group called Families for Excellent Schools and its subsidiary, and entity called the Coalition for Every Child.

Find a few writing critique groups and hone your craft with honest and tough criticism.

No seriously, I taught 5th grade writing last year and a few of my short stories were used as «intensive» group editing practice.

The book looks at writing groups of all kinds, but quite a few essays are specifically about children's writers» groups, and the ones that aren't generally address issues that apply to writers working in different genres.

AS: I moved to Florida a few years ago and lost my writing group.

You've got a book that you think is pretty great, it's been revised a few times with input from your family, friends or writing groups, and you want to nail it all down for publication.

Now's the time to read a few books by the writing «gurus» (here's an excellent list), and some of the great craft - of - writing posts by The Kill Zone's contributors in the TKZ Library (in the sidebar on the right), and maybe join a critique group (in - person or online) and / or attend some writing workshops.

The leader of the group submitted a few flash fiction stories for review back in January, which was my first exposure to that type of writing.

As the author of Sell Your Book on Amazon, I speak at quite a few conferences, seminars, and writing groups on the subject of online book marketing.

A few months ago we wrote about the growing divisions between Amazon and The Independent Publishers Group.

GoodEReader recently covered the addition of a suite of self - publishing tools to Penguin Group's online writing community website, Book Country, but after a few indie authors got a hold of the information from Book Country, the response has been less than appreciative.

The definition of «up to standard» may vary between groups, but I'd recommend at least a few redrafts and an edit by someone whose writing you respect.

«Apple's full - color, full motion [iPad] device makes not only netbooks, but any product with an E Ink display look tired and dated,» wrote Yankee Group Research Inc. analyst Carl Howe in a blog after spending a few minutes using the tablet device.

I belong to quite a few Facebook writing and publishing groups, and I've noticed that people will often add a one - word comment to a post.

Form a small group: This group should comprise a few members who do not necessarily form a study group or fellow members, but they will only meet when they are assigned an essay - writing work.

I'm hoping this new book surprises me and really does well in a few categories I haven't written as much in yet, bringing a new group of readers to my other books.

I also joined a few groups on subjects / places that I am interested in or wrote about.

Then I used meetup.com to find a couple local writing groups, and I had to visit a few before I found one that felt like it might work.

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I am so glad I reached out to you with those first few questions, and I am grateful you not only took the time to answer my questions (which very quickly went from a few to a few dozen), but you spent the extra time and went above and beyond to keep answering questions, pointing me to other posts / blogs / groups you thought would be good for me to investigate, suggesting books to help me with writing, and all the while offering a most precious gem of encouragement on top of everything else.

All your tips are on the money, but here's a few more: send out news releases to writing magazines and to your local press, including parish pump magazines — everyone who finds out about you is a potential reader, each with a network to recommend you to; look for opportunities to guest on writing - related blogs; and see if you can wangle invitatiosn to speak to groups — eBooking is a hot topic right now, and the stuff that interesting talks are made of.

Groups of people writing similarly uncommon stories saw a market for them, and a few smart people started publishing electronically.