This is the latest installment of the DTC Briefing, a weekly modern retail column on the biggest challenges and trends facing the volatile world of direct-to-consumer startups. To receive it in your mailbox every week, register here. Rising prices kept direct-to-consumer executives awake at night for some time as the cost of everything from cotton […]
One of the most popular aspects of “Severance” is its global build, with Apple’s success drawing rave reviews for creating one of the weirdest settings on television. The Lumon company is known for being bland and mysterious, with its “separated” employees who split their consciousness in two and spend their working lives in a sterile […]
Post views: 139 No matter what industry you work in or want to get into, communicating in writing is important. As business development professional Fahim Imam-Sadeque explains, having basic writing skills is a key component of communication. If you think your writing skills aren’t as good as they could or should be, there are several […]
Joe Satriani sits in front of a wall of groundbreaking amps—Marshall, Peavey, and EVH rigs that would make the average chamber grinder cry—and for the umpteenth time in this press cycle, he explains that he has none. used none of them on his new album, The Elephants of March. Satriani recorded all of the guitars […]
The emphasis on reading skills is also intended to foster the enjoyment of reading. Peter Knapp, an expert in teaching writing, said the sharing of responsibility for teaching writing between different subjects was introduced 30 years ago and has never been properly enacted. Science didn’t think about teaching sentence structure, and English didn’t think about […]
Being a student in the United States has been increasingly difficult, especially during times of pandemic restrictions. Written assignments reign supreme in distance learning environments, while students normally receive little support due to them on campus. Left to their own devices, many try to find other ways to supplement their course material and lighten the […]
Rising singer-songwriter Patrick Droney is set to kick off his State of the Heart Tour with an appearance at the Kessler Theater at 8 p.m. Friday, February 11, with special guest morgxn. Droney is no stranger to the Texas music scene, having frequented Antone’s in Austin, shared the stage with Double Trouble, being friends with […]
By Juanita E. Mantz | Collaborating columnist How does one find one’s home in creative writing outside of patting one’s ruby-colored slippers together? I would say that coming home is a writing journey that one can take at any time in life. One of my literary inspirations is James Joyce, who wrote about his hometown […]
Psychologists have observed that two years of the pandemic have really turned our perceptions of time upside down. As we were swept in and out of plans and routines with relentless news of death and illness, hours and days fell into a mud of disappointment, anxiety and grief. Now, 2022 begins with a still terribly […]
From Jane Austen to James Patterson, each author has their own way of writing. And this writing is often discussed in terms of “style”. Essentially, style refers to “how” something is written – it is more about form than content. So when, for example, someone remarks that they “liked the story” but “didn’t like the […]
For any business, organization, or even individual writer, maintaining a consistent voice is a constant challenge. Writer is a startup aiming to provide a solution with a smart built-in style guide that goes beyond simple error checking. After seeding $5 million last year, the company has now raised A$21 million to continue developing and improving […]
The four main types of academic writing are descriptive, analytical, persuasive, and critical. Each of these types of writing has specific linguistic characteristics and purposes. In many academic texts, you will need to use more than one type. For example, in an empirical thesis: you will use critical writing in literature review to show where […]
Artwork by The Project Twins Every lab scientist has a horror story. The five-minute step they didn’t know they needed, which ended up costing them five months – or five years. Maybe he swirled the plate around as the overcrowded cells were distributed among the culture dishes. Or perhaps the published protocol said to wash […]
Quarles in front of the soon-to-open Unbound Writing Center in Sunny Brae | Photo: Stephanie McGeary With poetry plastered on public walls and displayed in storefronts across Arcata, numerous local writing contests, and an award-winning Poet Laureate from the city of Eureka, it’s clear that Humboldt has a strong community of writers (oh […]
Formed by the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston in the 2000s, Diving in the lake street has been a staple of the soul-rock scene, distinguished by its jazz prowess and genre transcendence. They hit the big time with their singles “Good Kisser” and “Rich Girl” from their 2018 album Free yourself, only to […]
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be out of date. Please look at the history’s timestamp to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) – New research shows you may be able to predict whether a person is likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease later in life based on […]
Recently, someone asked us: “Can you please tell me who is the most authority where is the most respected Resource about writing rules? There are several excellent sources on writing rules. However, the rules are different for different fields, such as business, technology, government or academic in writing. Strunk & White Full-time writers often turn […]
Reading and writing styles have matured a lot throughout history. In today’s modern world, we create in different formats. For example, some people express their passions by writing a journal (like me). Others share via audio formats such as video recording. Whatever their writing preference, people like to settle for hours with their favorite reading […]
John Paul Pitts, frontman of West Palm Beach, Florida-based rock ‘n’ roll band Surfer Blood, remembers boarding a major plane to London. This moment may have marked the first major milestone for the group, which began in 2009. As the group found their seats and put their bags away, Pitts couldn’t help but think about […]
By Roberta Kwok We tend to become friends with those who are like us, for example, people of the same ethnic or religious background or a similar personality. A new study co-authored by Balázs Kovács of Yale SOM suggests that invisible and visible clues may be part of this process. Specifically, the study examined whether […]
UNITED STATES — Writing styles differ among authors. Copying the technique of a successful writer doesn’t make you a great one. To be good at it, you need to understand the different styles of writing available and adopt the one that appeals to you. This will help you choose a technique that you are comfortable […]
SINGAPORE – When using the Chinese language, Singaporeans tend to add a hint of English expressions or a hint of dialect in their correspondence with Chinese businessmen or officials, which can make their handwriting difficult to understand. . To address these challenges and more, a book on Applied Writing in Chinese that compares writing styles […]
Professor Kenneth Goldsmith teaches ENGL 111, “Writing Off the Page”, at Penn. (Photo by Kenneth Goldsmith) Michael Greenstein Junior College graffiti “Welcome to Penn State” in blue chalk spray paint across campus as part of a class assignment last week for ENGL 111, “Writing Off the Page”. The course explores the limits of writing and […]
Dear public relations subjects, With your column, I learn more about public relations and why good writers often do good public relations. This is because writing is essential in communication, and we are responsible for communicating when we are selling, building a brand or just letting people know what is new with us. Have writing […]
Slanted cursive writing, straight cursive writing, and writing where the alphabets were separated. These are just a few of the different writing styles observed among the participants in the final of the writing competition organized by The Hindu in association with BIC Cello India here Sunday. Of the 6,000 students who participated in the preliminary […]
Andaleeb Wajid, whose novel No Time for Goodbyes has just been released, explains why she started telling stories. It took Andaleeb Wajid four years and 13 refusals to get his first book, Kite strings, published. That was in 2009. But she’s been on a roll since then. His second book, Turn signals off, written in […]
Through sara backdon A Tale of Two Cities: no one writes like Dickens anymore (Image: ITV / Rex features) Few novelists today would want a character to say, “It’s a good, much better rest than I’ve ever known.” This is not only because few modern figures contemplate death by guillotine, but also because writing styles […]
Curious – arouse or excite speculation, interest or attention by being inexplicable or very unusual; odd; strange: kind of curious person; a curious scene. Novel – “new, strange, unusual”, circa 1420, but little used before 1600, by M.Fr. novel “new, fresh, recent” (Fr. nouveau, fem. nouvelle), by O.Fr., by L. novellus “new, young, recent”, sun […]