Sentences with phrase «on writing techniques»

They look for classes on writing techniques, books on self - editing, conferences they can attend.
I do not offer advice on writing techniques that you can apply in revision.

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Sutton wrote the book on the field of reinforcement learning, a technique which allows AI to teach itself what the best actions are using a reward - punishment system of its own, an area of deep learning that played a role in the success of DeepMind's AlphaGo project.
I've written extensively on the value of the pause — a technique that involves taking a few moments (or sometimes more) to stop and think before taking action.
«But the biggest difference I think is that before I could create one general resumé for a client; now, I can write one very good standard resumé, and then I'll coach them on the different techniques for how to update that resumé for each individual job application.»
Written for all B2C sales professionals, this sales training book takes you on a 30 - day journey with Jeff Shore to strengthen both your closing mindset and your closing technique using modern methods (and without feeling sleazy or manipulative!).
On the flip side, if you are a good writer or like to write and are willing to learn the necessary techniques, the rewards can be extremely lucrative.
Shadowplay highlights the wealth of contemporary allusion surrounding Portia's espousal to Bassanio, designed to remind the Queen of her allegorical flirtation with England» and before Jacobs ridicules the idea of a lost level of meaning in which Bassanio represents Elizabeth's subjects, a reviewer who professes to respect the «various forms and genres and techniques of literary writing» will be aware that poems and plays in the mid-sixteenth century regularly celebrated England's courtship of the monarch, and that literary characters representing England were commonplace, though disguised in order to subvert the ban on discussing contemporary politics and religion.
Then there is his pace of production: according to commonly accepted dating techniques» using the known dates of Shakespeare's forced retreats from London during the plague years, the year of his final retirement to Stratford, allusions to current events in the plays, and so forth» it seems that during his working life in London he wrote on average two plays each year until the death of Elizabeth in 1603, when the pace slackened to about one play per year during the Jacobean reign.
So, rather than only striving to make the best decisions I can, I may supplement my quasi-evangelic techniques by wearing a shirt with a cross on it, or I may leave a slip of paper with a Bible verse written on it on a table, in hopes that someone may see it and it spark some food for thought in his / her brain.
If you have a blog and want to teach yourself how to make macarons, or any other technique that might have intimidated you in the past, tackle it, write a post on it, and send it to Heather by 10 pm on Macaron Monday (Nov. 8th) to show off your newly learned skill.
I've written a bread baking basics reference section that spells out all you need to know to bake great bread at home, with notes on technique, ingredients, a discussion of yeast and salt, grains, and various bread baking tools.
Katy / Mercedes — I don't doubt that this has been written about many other places (see also: the dozens of comments here from people who said they learned the technique from a friend or grandmother), but I didn't look to see where because as I mentioned in an earlier comment (# 255), I figured it out on my own (and through the suggestion of a friend from college).
Gordon wrote on many topics: angling techniques («The fly must be placed to an inch as the fish will rarely take it unless it floats over them just right»), the books he read, the effects of drought and floods on fish, the seasons of the year («The silence of the snows is over all the land, and the bright waters of our trout streams run almost black between icy banks») and his belief in the natural fly as a model for the artificial («The insect must be studied and many patterns dressed before one can hope to satisfy the critical eyes of the trout»).
Written for parents - to - be, families, friends, and health professionals, this book uses first - hand knowledge and personal anecdotes to shed light on a somewhat clandestine technique and explain the issues people face as they consider raising DI children.
This week on The Attached Family online, Attachment Parenting International members can read the debut of the «Professional Parenting» series, a column written by Judy Arnall, Canadian mother of five and author of the widely acclaimed Discipline without Distress — you should see my well - worn copy of the book that gives parents real tried - and - true discipline techniques without resorting to spanking, yelling, or the infamous timeout.
She has written books on the subject and developed techniques for teachers and parents all over the world.
I love color knitting so much I've actually written a book on the subject, which includes information and patterns for knitting with several of these techniques.
I'm committed to writing daily (with just a few exceptions), focusing mainly on my experiences with these parenting techniques as they relate to the daily challenges of raising two kids.
As the audience for my bento box posts has grown, I've focused on writing articles about packing lunches, bento tips and techniques and lunch gear.
Professionals were ready to give up on her, writing her off and offering outdated, one size fits all techniques, but Iris's mother, Arabella Carter - Johnson knew that there was so much beneath the surface that wasn't being seen.
Kabat - Zinn, Myla and Jon EVERYDAY BLESSINGS: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting Hyperion, 1998 Written by the parents of three grown children, this book focuses on the thoughts and feelings, rather than the techniques, associated with parenting children of all ages.
After grad student Sara Evans decided to become a science writer, Lundblad hired her for an additional year to help prepare manuscripts and write a manual on the lab's techniques and protocols.
The consultants also attend twice - yearly ACS national meetings and run workshops on career - related topics, from CV writing, to interview techniques, to starting up a company.
«In contrast to the long tradition of field guides authored by expert natural historians, Map of Life draws on collective wisdom, amalgamating global data sets of species observations from published sources and using a series of modeling techniques to convert them into species range maps,» Goldsmith wrote.
«In the 1970s, Kip Thorne [Caltech's Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus] and others wrote papers saying that these pulsars should be emitting gravity waves that are nearly perfectly periodic, so we're thinking hard about how to use these techniques on a gram - scale object to reduce quantum noise in detectors, thus increasing the sensitivity to pick up on those gravity waves,» Schwab says.
It began with a presentation from Alysia Decker, assistant director of career planning and development at Johns Hopkins University, on general techniques for resume and CV writing.
This technique managed to spot the age of the ink on documents written up to five years previously and with an approximation margin of about 20 %.
Writing in Physical Review Letters, the research team at Southampton has provided the first proof - of - principle demonstration of a new laser cooling technique, based on a proposal by Martin Weitz and Nobel laureate Ted Hänsch in 2000, which is in principle applicable to atoms and molecules as yet untamed by conventional laser cooling.
This software is based on machine - learning techniques similar to those the researchers developed to write their bogus evaluations.
That's because machine translation techniques rely on analysing the statistical properties of the same text written in two different languages — a Spanish - English dictionary, for example.
In a PNAS commentary on the technique, Danielle Denisko and Michael Hoffman of the University of Toronto wrote: «iRF holds much promise as a new and effective way of detecting interactions in a variety of settings, and its use will help us ensure no branch or leaf is ever left unturned.»
For example, using a specially developed patterning technique, they wrote the word, «ICE,» on the material in a physical space 10 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.
In boarding school she developed a technique she calls subliminal learning: She would think about a problem before going to sleep, tracing important aspects of it out with her fingers, and the answer would be «written» on a wall or the ceiling in the morning.
STAT reporter Andrew Joseph writes about optogenetics and Prof. Edward Boyden's work developing this technique for turning neurons on and off.
Ups and downs of NgAgo genome editing Kate Qin Zhao wrote on a Medium great essay about new genome editing technique, called NgAgo.
This volume is a unique anthology of stem cell techniques focusing on adult stem cells, and written by experts from the top laboratories in the world.
What makes this modeling technique truly valuable, writes Andreas Vieli, a climate scientist at the University of Zurich, in a commentary accompanying the new paper, is that it's based on widely available data.
Ron is currently collaborating with Auburn University to complete trials of recombinant and chromosomal options for producing «daughterless» carp, consulting on the risks involved in using genetic methods for managing disease - vectoring mosquitoes, exploring options for applying genetic techniques to the control of other invasive fish, and writing papers on deep - sea ecology, climate change and the taxonomy of Tasmanian mayflies.
Commenting on the new body, Alain Trautmann, a cell biologist at the Cochin Institute in Paris and a founder of the advocacy group Sauvons la Recherche, says: «In France we have a technique that whenever you want to bury a problem, you create a commission to write a report about it.»
The analysis was produced using established modeling techniques but it wasn't peer - reviewed before the results were announced Thursday on The Conversation, which is a nonprofit news site founded in Australia that frequently publishes articles written by scientists.
Coping cards for negative thinkers One CBT technique involves writing down a negative thought on one side of a card.
Participants will examine their personal strengths, fears and cultural histories in relation to their role as a teacher, understand the needs of students and schools, learn classroom management techniques, write lesson plans and practice teaching Bent On Learning's yoga curriculum for primary, middle and high school students.
I was inspired by this and decided to veer a bit from writing about the latest bodyweight technique, and instead share more about myself on a personal -LSB-...]
Cheryl recently wrote a featured article in the March 2013 issue of Today's Dietitian on Mindful Eating and on Treating Binge Eating Disorder Utilizing Mindful Techniques in the Summer 2014 issue of Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutrition (SCAN).
By 1987, Annie had written the phenomenally successful book The Complete Book of Decorative Paint Techniques, which is considered to be the industry bible on the subject.
So many great tips & I love that you two paired up together for a collab because I love the both of you and each of your writing techniques is on point.
My focus was on his career, his storytelling & writing techniques, and how he's evolved as a filmmaker over the 10 years since first making Shaun of the Dead (his original feature debut was A Fistful of Fingers).
The film is too lumpy at parts and Streep relies on technique instead of inspiration to get her part across, wrote David Rooney.
The lesson enables students to reflect on their uses of language techniques, as well as considering what kind of structure to give to their writing.
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