Sentences with phrase «poor quality self»

I can't stress how important that is, because every poor quality self published book gives the industry a bad name.

And after seeing many poor quality self - published books, now I know why.

Not exact matches

While we await more research isolating the nuances inherent in the effects of sleep and leadership, we already know that poor sleep quality and quantity result in self - control problems, which in turn are associated with higher levels of abusive supervision and unethical behavior.

At the same time, it would be in direct competition to the increasingly influential view that the dignity of any individual life is dependent upon the competency of the individual, as though a self with a poor quality of life has a life not worth living.

Delusional, arrogant, self - absorbed, tactically clueless, managerially poor and professionally irresponsible are Mr Wenger main qualities on the sporting aspect.

The particular focus of How Children Succeed was the role that a group of factors often referred to as noncognitive or «soft» skills — qualities like perseverance, conscientiousness, self - control, and optimism — play in the challenges poor children face and the strategies that might help them succeed.

The data used in the project covered the period 2000 - 2008 and considered such factors as premature death, low birth weights, and self - reported information regarding health - related quality of life and poor physical and mental health days.

Skeletal muscle loss, apart from being excruciatingly painful with increasing severity, also renders you debilitated with a poor quality of life characterised by restricted movements and enhanced chances of inflicting self - injury or damage while attempting physical activities.

The appreciation of craftsmanship has been lost as we indulge our selves in poorly made, poor quality, disposable clothing!

American schools, and particularly schools serving our poorest kids, should be far better, freer of stupid bureaucracies and self - serving teacher unions, staffed by better people, and supported by systems that encourage quality instead of fighting it.

In addition, they are helping students become more self - directed students able to distinguish between poor - and high - quality performance are more likely to be able to evaluate and improve their own work, guided by a clear conception of excellence.2

This is an unexpected finding, and my theory is that teachers tend to generally have very low expectations of what «appropriately providing for professional development» actually looks like, meaning that they are likely to report a positive for this on self - report surveys even if the quality is relatively poor, hence the low correlation with intention to leave.

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between quality of life and health self - perception of children with poor school performance, considering sociodemographic factors.

Part of it is because of the poor - quality reputation that self - published books is slowly eroding.

Yes, self publishing will lead to the release of more poor - quality books than every before, but anyone who fixates on this fact is missing the bigger, more important picture.

For many self pubbers, it's not good business sense to spring for the type of professional quality editing, copy art, and production value that makes for * good * self publishing — especially if they are a poor first time author with unproven work.

The argument I'm about to make is that this situation gives publishers (both self - and non-self) an incentive to market poor quality books (remember the definition of quality I outlined above), that the average available quality of books will fall, and that the overall publishing market will shrink in terms of overall revenue (even though the the number of units sold increases).

The idea that self - published books are primarily of poor quality is about as useful as the idea that no woman can leave the home without a girdle on.

One of the more frustrating truths about self - publishing and libraries is that indie authors have had a hard time getting their books into their own local libraries, as budgets are small and the risk of insult when the book is of poor quality is high.

With so much talk in recent news about the poor quality of indie authors» works and data that shows that only about 59 % of self - published authors go so far as to pay a professional editor before hitting that publish button, it's easy to forget that the traditional publishing industry has its fair share of mistakes, too.

With so much talk in recent news about the poor quality of indie authors» works and data that shows that only about 59 % of self - published authors go so far as to pay a professional editor before hitting that publish button, it's easy to forget... [Read more...]

There is almost an assumption that self - publishing = poor quality or slap dash craft, but there is poor quality and slap dash craft in all books.

Now some are self - publishing too early, and the result is what you and I might think of as poor - quality work.

This, even though, when it comes to «quality,» there are still a lot of poor quality books and online articles that are being self - published.

Self - publishing often leads to publishing of poor quality books.

Not only that, there are countless horror stories of authors being ripped off by vanity self publishing companies that cost the earth and deliver a poor quality book product that doesn't sell.

I don't know why it is surprising that the unfiltered mass of self - published writers is of very poor quality.

In the past self - publishing had a poor reputation because of poor - quality production, low editorial standards and little access to the market.

The reason there's a stigma attached to «self - publishing» (most of which, as Victoria says, isn't) is because the quality as a whole is poor.

Throughout the infancy and childhood stages of self - publishing, traditional publishing houses, respected newspapers and other media that reviewed books were only too happy to point fingers at the poor quality of self - published work.

My major disappointment in self publishing over the past two years has been that after all that work involved in writing and editing and formatting your book, it will probably still look self published because of the poor quality covers inherent from print on demand.

That left the problem of design, many self published titles suffer from poor design and lack of quality.

I hope you don't mind a comment from someone who's about to be traditionally published, but I've been reading a good amount of self - published nonfiction works lately, and the quality of those works was very, very poor.

Before anyone starts moaning about censorship or obstruction of their freedom of expression, think about a world where «self - published» doesn't equate to «poor quality.»

There's the assumption that a self - published author is a never - published author or can't - find - a-book-deal author or more to the point: self - published = poor quality.

Perhaps as readers we'll adapt to self - edited writing, misspelled words and poorly «typeset» eBooks in the same way that we accept poor mobile phone voice quality.

The self - publishing market will even itself out, with the poor quality crap sinking to the bottom and the good stuff rising to the top as one - book authors drop away.

At one point it was possible to spot a self - published book from a mile away, due to not - so - great cover design and poor quality printing.

Many authors couldn't afford to do it right and self - publishing became synonymous with poor quality.

I try to always see the positives, but it's interesting to me that the Publishing Industry has a history of criticizing Self Publishing for its poor quality, yet as they lose revenue to it on the front end, we see several publishers jump to cash in on this same «tainted product» on the back end.

One of the biggest criticisms of self - publishing is the poor quality of the finished product which is why it's important to take these extra steps.

For the commenter above who deplored overpriced, poor - quality self - published books at the Kindle Store, all I can say is adapt to it.

A quickly diminishing stereotype of self - published books is that they are of poor quality.

Those of us who've chosen that path have already faced prejudice, mostly from other publishers and authors who consider self - published work synonymous with poor quality.

The readers are talking about the poor quality of self - published books and warning other readers to «check the publisher» and if you don't recognize them, don't buy.

The term self - publisher connotes in some minds poor quality books produced by hostile writing enthusiasts who feel that the publishing establishment has failed them.

A lot of people here seem to be reacting to the idea that «the best writing» gets traditionally published, in print, while most self - published stuff is poorer - quality writing.

In 2010 between 22 % to 30 % of its loans were considered to be of poor quality, but only 50 loans with deficiencies were self - reported to HUD, Justice said.

If it's poor quality / effort, self promoting, annoying / obnoxious / cringe inducing, I stay away from it.

«The quality of homework assigned is so poor that simply getting kids to read replacing homework with self - selected reading was a more powerful alternative.