Sounds Good On Paper

Author : Roger Horberry
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781408122310

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Sounds Good on Paper by Roger Horberry Pdf

Career experts have noted the enormous competitive advantage of employees who excel at written communication. This book, written by one of London's top copywriters, is a fun guide to using fifty of the most powerful and persuasive figures of speech to add freshness and flavor to everything from the most routine business communication to marketing copy which has an immediate and memorable impact. Figures of speech with their double meaning wordplay can add a level of style and impact and pump up your powers of persuasion.

Author : Roger Horberry
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781408134405

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Sounds Good on Paper by Roger Horberry Pdf

Figures of speech are everywhere. Popstar or postman, president or paperboy, the chances are you've already used a whole heap of them today without realising it. For business writers, they're pure gold. They make our words more powerful, persuasive and poetic. They add flavour to dreary standard issue language. They help us get our message across in a way that's immediate and memorable. This book takes fifty of our finest figures of speech and explains how they can help anyone who works with words, regardless of profession, to express themselves with more style and impact. Sounds Good on Paper is a practical guide to every figure of speech you never knew you knew, including the chiasmus ('You can take the boy out of Essex, but you can't take Essex out of the boy'), tmesis ('abso-blooming-lutley') and kenning ('pencil pusher' or 'coffin dodger'). It shows how you can use figures to make your words work harder and pump up your powers of persuasion. If you want to inspire and engage your readers, this book is here to help.

Author : Rachel Cantor
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612194714

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Good on Paper by Rachel Cantor Pdf

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SECOND NOVEL FROM THE WRITER EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL (STATION ELEVEN) CALLS “SHARP, WITTY, AND IMMENSELY ENTERTAINING” Is a new life possible? Because Shira Greene’s life hasn’t quite turned out as planned. She’s a single mom living with her daughter and her gay friend, Ahmad. Her PhD on Dante’s Vita Nuova hasn’t gotten her a job, and her career as a translator hasn’t exactly taken off either. But then she gets a call from a Nobel Prize-winning Italian poet who insists she’s the only one who can translate his newest book. Stunned, Shira realizes that—just like that— her life can change. She sees a new beginning beckoning: academic glory, demand for her translations, and even love (her good luck has made her feel more open to the entreaties of a neighborhood indie bookstore owner). There’s only one problem: It all hinges on the translation, and as Shira starts working on the exquisitely intricate passages of the poet’s book, she realizes that it may in fact be, well ... impossible to translate. A deft, funny, and big-hearted novel about second chances, Good on Paper is a grand novel of family, friendship, and possibility.

Author : Paize Keulemans
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684175444

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Sound Rising from the Paper by Paize Keulemans Pdf

Chinese martial arts novels from the late nineteenth century are filled with a host of suggestive sounds. Characters cuss and curse in colorful dialect accents, vendor calls ring out from bustling marketplaces, and martial arts action scenes come to life with the loud clash of swords and the sounds of bodies colliding. What is the purpose of these sounds, and what is their history? In Sound Rising from the Paper, Paize Keulemans answers these questions by critically reexamining the relationship between martial arts novels published in the final decades of the nineteenth century and earlier storyteller manuscripts. He finds that by incorporating, imitating, and sometimes inventing storyteller sounds, these novels turned the text from a silent object into a lively simulacrum of festival atmosphere, thereby transforming the solitary act of reading into the communal sharing of an oral performance. By focusing on the role sound played in late nineteenth-century martial arts fiction, Keulemans offers alternatives to the visual models that have dominated our approach to the study of print culture, the commercialization of textual production, and the construction of the modern reading subject.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269

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Why I Write by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Author : James Hogg,Florence Marryat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015069273871

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London Society by James Hogg,Florence Marryat Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Home entertainment systems
ISBN : UOM:39015047986768

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Sound & Vision by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Sound
ISBN : UIUC:30112008127828

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Sound & Communications by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : HARVARD:HB054U

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The Chronicle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Theater
ISBN : UCSC:32106012084841

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The Theatre Book of the Year ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Pinsky
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781466878495

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The Sounds of Poetry by Robert Pinsky Pdf

The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works. "Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. "The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is as physical or bodily an art as dancing." As Poet Laureate, Pinsky is one of America's best spokesmen for poetry. In this fascinating book, he explains how poets use the "technology" of poetry--its sounds--to create works of art that are "performed" in us when we read them aloud. He devotes brief, informative chapters to accent and duration, syntax and line, like and unlike sounds, blank and free verse. He cites examples from the work of fifty different poets--from Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert to W. C. Williams, Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, C. K. Williams, Louise Glück, and Frank Bidart. This ideal introductory volume belongs in the library of every poet and student of poetry.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Poultry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924070841923

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The Poultry Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Garr Reynolds
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780321601896

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Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds Pdf

FOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKI Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the Net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1342 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017292009

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Electronic Musician by Anonim Pdf

Author : K. Tim Wulfemeyer
Publisher : Iowa State Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Broadcast journalism
ISBN : UIUC:30112056275628

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Broadcast Newswriting by K. Tim Wulfemeyer Pdf

Presents information, examples and exercises designed to develop the skills needed in broadcast newswriting.