Sentences with phrase «of writing exercises»

Jaden Terrell is the author of Racing the Devil (Permanent Press), the first in a series featuring Nashville private detective Jared McKean, and is a contributor to Now Write Mysteries, a collection of writing exercises published by Tarcher / Penguin for crime fiction writers.

I purchased the Hard Cover and would recommend this because there are a lot of writing exercises!

The word is hupogrammos, and it means the line of copperplate handwriting at the top of the page of a writing exercise book, which the scholar must copy as best he can.

Teachers also complete a series of written exercises that probe the depth of their subject - matter knowledge as well as their understanding of how to teach those subjects to their students.

The questions could also form the basis of a writing exercise.

Interestingly, while NaNo is more of a writing exercise and a motivational tool, there have been a number of books that at least began life as NaNo novels, but through massive editing and polishing did go on to become bestsellers; Sara Gruen's Like Water for Elephants is perhaps the most well - known, having been also adapted for film.

The novel grew out of a writing exercise that I kept working on; persistent doodling.

But then I remembered a flash fiction that came out of a writing exercise last year, Space Junk (published in in Mixed Blessings: Genre - lly Speaking, Breath of Fresh Air Press, 2016), and the ideas took shape.

A long term thesis might be convenient to write but the findings of your research might change when you are in the middle of your writing exercise.

Shortlisted candidates will attend an assessment centre which is conducted over one to two days and is comprised of a written exercise, role play, individual presentation, group activities and several interviews covering technical, behavioural and competency profiles.

Not exact matches

I've written before that I don't think of diet, exercise, and behavior as preventing cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.

Lately there seems to be a lot of dialogue and articles written about getting up and moving, the importance of exercise for health, stress reduction and the specific benefits of standing up while working (fairly atrocious if you ask me) and the omnipresent topic of obesity.

Those who had engaged in the self - affirmation exercise wrote better apologies with less hedging, blaming, and dodging of responsibility.

Even after man invented writing, the process of reproducing texts was both exclusive and labour - intensive; until at least the late Middle Ages, copying one by hand was as much an exercise in remembering its contents.

«Based on a series of studies performed by our team over the past 5 years, this «dose» of exercise has become my prescription for life,» Benjamin Levine, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern who wrote the study, said in a statement.

«Other kinds of work — be it exercise, a creative hobby, hands - on parenting, or volunteering — will do more to preserve your zest for Monday's challenges than complete vegetation or working through the weekend,» she writes.

«Even without doing expensive fMRI scans, our results give us an idea of what areas of the brain might be supporting these exercise - induced memory benefits,» she wrote in the paper.

«What we do know is that the total number of Russian troops on Belarusian territory is not expected to exceed 3,000 personnel,» Gorenburg wrote, and «the likelihood of this exercise serving as cover for some larger nefarious aim, whether it is an attack on Ukraine or Lithuania or a stealth occupation of Belarus, is practically zero.»

For example, I might upload a picture of my company and write, «This is what it looks like when you crush quarterly earnings,» or I'll post a staff photo on Instagram where we are all engaged in a team - building exercise or attending a company - wide event.

«Other kinds of work — be it exercise, a creative hobby, hands - on parenting, or volunteering — will do more to preserve your zest for Monday's challenges than complete vegetation,» she has written before recommending that, if you really want to feel jazzed up after a break, you should proactively schedule challenging or engaging activities rather than just planning to chill and take things the days as they come.

«Patients in the study spent an average of approximately 27 minutes per day exercising over the course of an average 30 days in recovery,» wrote the researchers.

«Aerobic exercise is the key for your head, just as it is for your heart,» write the authors of an article in the Harvard Medical School blog «Mind and Mood.»

Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court's most famous religious conservative today, essentially denied the plaintiffs free exercise of their religion.

King wrote that when acting as a federal prosecutor, Sessions used his power to «chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens.»

Morning pages is a powerful stream of consciousness writing exercise that is not intended to yield publishable material, but which can help you get your pen moving and your thoughts flowing — even if you never intend to share them with the rest of the world.

If you want to take a page out of Bill Gates» playbook, wake up early, exercise, read more (definitely cut back on your reality TV intake) and write a daily to - do list.

The exercise is to think of people you feel gratitude to and write them to tell them something you feel gratitude for.

To help you disconnect at night, and to reinforce that you are making progress, try this exercise: For five days in a row, take time at the end of the day to write a list of tasks you worked on and of lessons you learned along the way for each day.

In addition to writing compelling blog posts about exercise techniques and healthy living (one example: «The Single Biggest Mistake Most People Make With Their Programs»), Gentilcore's site provides a veritable library of fitness, conditioning, and nutritional information.

At that time I wrote: «Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

Arlan shares the simple and free, yet powerful, exercise of writing your own headlines, before they happen.

Examples of SIDCHAs include exercising, taking classes, writing, meditation, playing music, creating art, many hobbies, intentionally taking cold showers, dancing, yoga, and many others.

Writing in an op - ed published by Chinese - language business news outlet Yicai, Yao Qian — who leads the People's Bank of China (PBoC) digital currency research institute — argued that is impossible to exercise decentralized, informal blockchain governance on a large scale.

At DiscoverOrg, this might take the form of a data enrichment and matching exercise, a custom buildout to support changes in a go - to - market strategy, or something as simple as a workshop on how to overcome email deliverability issues or how to write email sequences for a drip campaign.

It's an interesting exercise to see how many of the analyses were written by people thousands of kilometres from India, and how many quote the same Carleton University academic, Vivek Dehejia.

'' [I] ts sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function,» a Wisconsin judge wrote in the ruling, referring to the 1952 law that created the National Day of Prayer.

As an exercise, I wrote the word «feminist» on the board and asked them to throw out the first few words that popped into their head when they thought of when they heard «feminist.»

The practice of psychotherapy as the only real ministry to their congregation has led the Suffragan Bishop of Washington, Paul Moore, Jr., to write: «Too many priests forget their priestliness when they learn some of the basic skills of counseling — or perhaps they have not been trained properly in the use of priestly techniques and therefore are not confident in their exercise.

Fresno Pacific University president Richard Kriegbaum wrote in early June that the bill «would severely restrict the free and full exercise of religious freedom granted by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.»

Just as it's unsettling to be reminded that Bach's Well - Tempered Clavier was a set of keyboard exercises composed «for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning,» it's remarkable how much eerily flawless craftsmanship Waugh displays even when the occasion of his writing is casual or mundane.

«The First Amendment provides, in part, that «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,»» Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the unanimous opinionforHosanna - Tabor v. EEOC.

He found in his writing a form of worship of God, and in the exercise of his calling as a writer whose every page was composed as under the scrutiny of God, he found his healing.

Thomas Jefferson wrote, «I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.

Now, writes his biographer, «Mann was about to preach a new religion and convince his constituency of the need for a new establishment, a nondenominational institution, the public school, with schoolmasters as a new priestly class, patriotic exercises as quasi-religious rituals, and a nonsectarian doctrine stressing morality, literacy and citizenship as a republican creed for all to confess.

And yet, when it came time to write a book about church (which, like every book, began with the rather rigorous and uncomfortable exercise of confronting my own bullshit), I couldn't deny the reality that, as much as I may dream of it, there's no starting from scratch... for any of us.

Following the McCain - Obama debate in which abortion was addressed, Kmiec wrote in the Los Angeles Times: «Sometimes the law must simply leave space for the exercise of individual judgement, because our religious or scientific differences of opinion are for the moment too profound to be bridged collectively.

He gets what he wants, the tree exercises no control over his desires, the tree in fact writes him a kind of blank check within the limit of her powers.

He wrote, «The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.»

Referring to C. S. Lewis's much - cited claim in The Abolition of Man, Kass writes that if «man's so - called power over nature is, in truth, always a power exercised by some over others with knowledge of nature as their instrument, can it really be liberating to exchange the rule of nature for the role of arbitrary human will?»

LOL, I can't think of a more foolish exercise than studying texts written by slope - headed cavemen that thought the earth was flat.