Sentences with phrase «groups about editing»

I am also available to speak with writing groups about editing and the publishing process.

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Genetic editing of human embryos «has tremendous value» to help solve important scientific questions, and should proceed despite potential worries about use of the technique in the clinic, an influential bioethics group said today in a statement.

Several high - profile lawsuits have prompted prominent researchers and U.K. groups such as Index on Censorship and Sense about Science to complain that U.K. libel laws — and the high costs of defending a libel action — are forcing researchers and scientific journals to censor or edit academic material.

Daniel Haber, director of the Massachusetts General Cancer Center, remembers the group talking about CRISPR gene editing, artificial intelligence to improve diagnosis and treatment plans, and immunotherapy techniques that incite the immune system to fight tumors.

In December 2015, a group of scientists, bioethicists and policy experts from different countries met to talk about regulating human gene editing.

Shot in 1996 when director Michael Lucid was a senior in high school and then edited in 2000, Dirty Girls is a work of nonfiction portraiture about a group of rebellious thirteen - year - old «riot grrrls» who...

About The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) The MPSE is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide a wealth of knowledge from award - winning professionals to a diverse group of individuals, youth and career professionals alike; mentoring and educating the community about the artistic merit and technical advancements in sound and music editing; providing scholarships and mentorship for the continuing advancement of motion picture sound in education; and helping to enhance the personal and professional lives of the men and women who practice this unique cAbout The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) The MPSE is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide a wealth of knowledge from award - winning professionals to a diverse group of individuals, youth and career professionals alike; mentoring and educating the community about the artistic merit and technical advancements in sound and music editing; providing scholarships and mentorship for the continuing advancement of motion picture sound in education; and helping to enhance the personal and professional lives of the men and women who practice this unique cabout the artistic merit and technical advancements in sound and music editing; providing scholarships and mentorship for the continuing advancement of motion picture sound in education; and helping to enhance the personal and professional lives of the men and women who practice this unique craft.

Resources include: Flash Cards for display and matching pairs activity (inc word document so that you can edit) Matching vocab and picture worksheet Fill in the correct transport worksheet Transport wordsearch Transport «Squares Game» Lesson Plan The objectives of this lesson are: By the end of the session most children will: • Be learning to use «I go by... (train, bus etc) • Be able identify some words for various forms of transport • Start to answer questions in French about different types of transport The planning is fairly flexible you can spend longer on some parts than others, do activities as a whole class or print multiple resources and work as smaller groups - whatever works for your group of children!

This huge collection of downright awful books represents an ever - growing group of well - meaning, would - be writers and authors who know nothing about editing, let alone the need for it — be that self - editing or otherwise.

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An author's worst fear can be about getting their work edited or critiqued by an editor, an agent, or even a critique group.

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The group talked about making a living with their blogs, how they deal with commentators, how much they write vs editing their contributors, what type of stories get under reported, why they got into comics journalism and they took questions from the audience.

And I could add to the advice about producing a quality product before publishing to run your work past some savvy beta readers or a discerning critique group to catch any parts that drag or are confusing, etc., then it would be best to get a professional edit from a reputable freelance editor who reads and edits your genre.

Here's how I got a reality check about group critiques: when my first was book accepted by a small press in England, my editor sent it back bleeding with red - pencilled edits.

-- Formatting HTML newsletters — Formatting books for Smashwords — Research about the business side of being an author (e.g., how Street Teams work, how to market a book in a foreign language, podcasts that might be a good fit to have you as a guest, etc.)-- Scouting for bloggers to send book review requests to — Pitching to those bloggers and tracking responses — Formatting (and perhaps light editing) of blog posts, or organizing content — Managing your Street Team Facebook group (posing questions to keep the group engaged, answering questions, sharing upcoming news, etc.)-- Creating box sets in Scrivener from individual novels — Moving works translated into a foreign language from Word into Scrivener — Scheduling tweets and Facebook posts (ones that don't require your direct input or engagement with your audience)-- Transcribing audio interviews or notes — For non-fiction authors, VAs can do an enormous number of tasks around webinars or other training you offer (e.g., planning and booking the event, scheduling guests, managing registration lists, dealing with the back - end technology, creating and proofing slide decks, sending out advance information packages to the trainees, and then sending out follow - up information to the trainees, etc..)

Having actually finished THREE manuscripts, stories, possible books, future fame and fortune endeavors, I then thought about edits and rewrites followed by my critique group.

Refusing to join a critique group: If you're convinced you don't have time to participate, or if you believe it's all about your work and nobody else's (and you don't want to «waste time» working on someone else's novel), you're going to miss out on some wonderful connections and a truck - load of editing opportunities.

Dawn Davis — vice president and publisher of 37 INK, an imprint of Simon & Schuster's Atria Publishing Group — talks about editing Edward P. Jones, the lack of diversity in publishing, and what some of the most successful authors have in common.

She regularly speaks about freelance editing and facilitates author critique groups.

The focus of the group is on writing and editing of blogs, books, memoirs and short stories, but we also talk about how to incorporate social media, entrepreneurship and publishing into our greater writing goals.

As an editor herself, April Michelle often speaks at association meetings, writers» groups, conferences, and colleges about writing and editing.

Build a beta reading group and hire editing eyes if serious about quality.

And, as always, if you're curious about your own strengths and weaknesses in writing, please never hesitate to contact Midnight Publishing's group of professional, award - winning editors and authors to discuss a free sample edit of your first 1,000 words!

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The Cut Content Police is a Steam Group with one goal: to warn people about games that have been «in some way censored due to cut, edited, changed, [or] modified content.»

The group of stuntmen have to decide who's going to wear the red jumpsuit, learn how to build monsters with paper - machè, understand the basics about filming and editing, hire extras to be their mud men, and a lot more.

As Democratic lawmakers and environmental groups continue to complain about Bush administration edits of Senate testimony on health risks from global warming, the White House today took the unusual step of having President Bush's science adviser, John Marburger III, issue a detailed explanation.

By editing CNN and PBS news stories so that some saw a skeptic included in the report, others saw a story in which the skeptic was edited out and another group saw no video, Krosnick found that adding 45 seconds of a skeptic to one news story caused 11 % of Americans to shift their opinions about the scientific consensus.

Then a Lead Author of Working Group 3 doing the final edit decided to tighten things up by quantifying «most» as «close to 80 %», and, not knowing about the Himalayan glacier forecast fiasco, looked up the AR4 section on the timeline for Himalayan glaciers disappearing, rounding it up to mid-century.

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.

This edited collection explores best practices for effective teaching and learning about various forms of systemic group privilege such as that based on race, gender, sexuality, religion, and class.