Sentences with phrase «reading first drafts»

In reading their first drafts, regardless of how academically strong the students were, we would see that they were much less comfortable presenting their own perspectives and more comfortable citing research and adopting fashionable educational jargon.

His wife read the first drafts of his various publications, and he rewrote those sections that she found obscure.

When my literary agent Michele read the first draft of my new book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself, she said, «Lissa,...

At first, I was a little nervous because there's so much story there to cover, ten years and five guys, but when I read the first draft Andrea Berloff wrote, I was like, «Okay, there's something really good there.»

When I read the first draft of his book five years ago, I was blown away at the story.

Very rarely do authors revise as they write, and we don't recommend it unless you're a seasoned author who knows you can read your first draft material without becoming so discouraged that you quit.

You can find out more about the book here, read what I thought of it, and read the first draft of my contribution (the final proof was somewhat altered).

That's why it's so useful to have trusted beta readers lined up to read your first draft.

Moreover, if you have an outline your tutor will gladly spend 10 minutes looking through the research essay plan rather than reading the first draft.

The book's dreaminess annoyed Smith, and a friend who read the first draft of her review called it contemptuous.

One final caveat: After reading my first draft of the 2008 post (which I subsequently revised), Dr. Keenlyside wrote me, «All our figures are decadal means, and it is hard to say (due to high frequency internal variability) at which point [after 2010] a rapid increase will occur.»

I then sent the book to the usual people who read my first drafts.

My Resume is OUTSTANDING and all I could say after reading the first draft was «WOW».

Out of all the hundreds and hundreds of articles that have appeared in the Networker over the past four decades, we've chosen a small sampling that captures the magazine's most journalistic side, conveying not so much the eternal verities of our profession, but the sense of reading a first draft of the field's history.

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But a first read of the new draft (and, notably, it's still being called a «draft») and a number of skeptical lawmaker statements suggests this is one legislative rabbit that political wizard Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could have trouble pulling out of his hat.

If you haven't read this slightly profane quote by Ernest Hemingway about first drafts, do so now and take it to heart.

«Our country's immigration policies should be designed and implemented to serve, first and foremost, the U.S. national interest,» the administration's draft proposal is said to read.

Bridgewater was the Vikings first round draft pick back in 2014, and most people thought he would be the franchise quarterback... [Read More] Cutting the Fan Favorites

They read like transcripts of late - night college bull sessions or very, very rough drafts of a first - year seminarian's essay on God.

The Feeding Products for Babies and Children (Advertising and Promotion) Bill passed its first reading on 16 November 2016 (when it was agreed to draft the law).

ER wrote the first draft of the manuscript which was supplemented by EH and VS. All three authors read and approved the final manuscript.

First, he published an article in the Guardian on 29 July - which, in retrospect, reads like the draft of a manifesto for a fourth Labour term: «With hindsight we should have got on with reforming the NHS sooner.

«Before asking commuters to abandon their cars, we must first improve mass transit capacity and reliability,» the draft cited by the Times reads.

He showed Jane a first draft in December 2005 and she said, having read it, that she «hadn't known the half of it».

Only nine months passed from the time that Spielberg read Liz Hannah's first draft of the script, to the time that he integrated John Williams» score into the final cut of the film, but «The Post» doesn't feel so urgent because it was rushed into production — it was rushed into production because it feels so urgent.

A few unexpected minor pleasures: the time - travel flick Predestination, an adaptation of a Robert A. Heinlein short story that's one of those rare sci - fi movies that feels like it was made by people who read sci - fi; the horror Western Bone Tomahawk, which feels, in the best way, like someone filmed a first draft script and didn't cut anything, all its little quirks of character kept intact, narrative expediency be damned; and In The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minute.

You were talking about the heart and soul of the movie, when I read the sort of first draft that they kicked out after I came on board and we had cracked the code on it and it had all the things that Deadpool needs in my mind and heart was one of them.

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In that small window when my time was only going to be needed on «Ready Player One» once a week, that's when I read Liz Hannah's first - draft screenplay [for «The Post»].

This past weekend I finally sat... Continue reading «INFERNAL AFFAIRS VS. THE DEPARTED: WHERE THE ORIGINAL IS REALLY THE BAD FIRST DRAFT»

Goldwyn first read Pamela Gray's script five years earlier and shepherded it through multiple drafts until Dustin Hoffman came on board as a producer and got the project financed.

Feedback from the first reading will be used to draft final versions of the regulations that will be presented to the board in October for approval.

Students then move from one computer to another, first reading classmates» rough draft and then offering revision suggestions in writing.

Even though this is a short reading response activity, I still like my students to complete a first draft of this assignment.

These 12 Dive Into Reading Book Reports each contain a first draft writing response worksheet.

He said a letter making the request to operate fewer schools under the Restart model would be drafted and sent to the SBE for it to consider on a «first read» in January and hopefully approved by the SBE at its February meeting.

I couldn't wait to read Watchman, which has been described as a first draft or «parent» of To Kill a Mockingbird, to learn more about how Harper Lee first imagined beloved characters like Atticus, Scout, and Jem, and to see how she depicts Maycomb in the 1950s.

WASHINGTON — Today, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 30 organizations listed below released the following statement regarding draft accountability regulations for the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) issued by the Department of Education in May: «The regulations the Department proposed in May are a good first step towards ensuring that all... Read More

These first draft worksheets contain example sentences using colorful verbs and adjectives for the students to read before they try to find examples of these parts of speech in their own book.

I just completed my first draft of my first Regency (Inspy) and have read hundreds of mainstream Regencies.

But that didn't mean I could write a good story (I couldn't, and if you read the very first draft of my very first novel you'd see that).

If you read the sample chapters I wrote on the 11th, you'll see that it's fairly well along as a first draft.

The term first came from fan fiction, and it means a person who reads your work - in - progress (or «WIP») when you, the writer or «alpha,» are ready for feedback — before it goes into final draft to be sent to your fanfic page, editor, or agent.

My beta readers are the first people to read my work and I give them a very tightly edited «first» draft (this first draft has had at least two or more rounds of edits to it)

I beta read sometimes, but due to my «day job» of freelance line editor, I'm a terrible beta reader for rough drafts (unless you're the type to produce pretty clean first drafts).

I recommend you read them as you are writing the first draft of your book (I was able to read each in 1 sitting and I am a slow reader).

This will give the beta readers a full five weeks to read your book; the last four weeks of your first draft stage and the first week of your editing stage.

They read the rough drafts for the first four books, and while I haven't played Everquest in almost a decade, several of our guild mates are still fans of the series.

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The first time she knew anything about it was when I read from the first draft during a reading series held in a bar.