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Backward Ran Sentences

Author : Thomas Vinciguerra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608197301
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Backward Ran Sentences written by Thomas Vinciguerra and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Maybe he doesn't like anything, but he can do everything," New Yorker editor Harold Ross once said of the magazine's brilliantly sardonic theater critic, Wolcott Gibbs. And, for over thirty years at the magazine, Gibbs did do just about everything. He turned out fiction and nonfiction, profiles and parodies, filled columns in "Talk of the Town" and "Notes and Comment," covered books, movies, nightlife and, of course, the theater. A friend of the Algonquin Round Table, Gibbs was renowned for his wit. (Perhaps his most enduring line is from a profile of Henry Luce, parodying Time magazine's house style: "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.") While, in his day, Gibbs was equal in stature to E.B. White and James Thurber, today, he is little read. In Backward Ran Sentences, journalist Tom Vinciguerra introduces Gibbs and gathers a generous sampling of his finest work across an impressive range of genres, bringing a brilliant, multitalented writer of incomparable wit to a new age of readers.

Literature of Journalism

Author : Price
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452912459
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Literature of Journalism written by Price and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way

Author : Geraldine Woods
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 132400486X
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way written by Geraldine Woods and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the artistry that lifts a sentence from good to great. We all know the basic structure of a sentence: a subject/verb pair expressing a complete thought and ending with proper punctuation. But that classroom definition doesn’t begin to describe the ways in which these elements can combine to resonate with us as we read, to make us stop and think, laugh or cry. In 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way, master teacher Geraldine Woods unpacks powerful examples of what she instead prefers to define as “the smallest element differentiating one writer’s style from another’s, a literary universe in a grain of sand.” And that universe is very large: the hundreds of memorable sentences gathered here come from sources as wide-ranging as Edith Wharton and Yogi Berra, Toni Morrison and Yoda, T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx. Culled from fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry, song lyrics, speeches, and even ads, these exemplary sentences are celebrated for the distinctive features—whether of structure, diction, connection/comparison, sound, or extremes—that underlie their beauty, resonance, and creativity. With dry humor and an infectious enjoyment that makes her own sentences a pleasure to read, Woods shows us the craft that goes into the construction of a memorable sentence. Each chapter finishes with an enticing array of exercises for those who want to test their skill at a particular one of the featured twenty-five techniques, such as onomatopoeia (in the Sound section) or parallelism (in the Structure section). This is a book that will be treasured by word nerds and language enthusiasts, writers who want to hone their craft, literature lovers, and readers of everything from song lyrics and speeches to novels and poetry.

Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of The New Yorker

Author : Thomas Vinciguerra
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248747
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of The New Yorker written by Thomas Vinciguerra and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Exuberant . . . elegantly conjures an evocative group dynamic.” —Sam Roberts, New York Times From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War, The New Yorker slowly but surely took hold as the country’s most prestigious, entertaining, and informative general-interest periodical. In Cast of Characters, Thomas Vinciguerra paints a portrait of the magazine’s cadre of charming, wisecracking, driven, troubled, brilliant writers and editors. He introduces us to Wolcott Gibbs, theater critic, all-around wit, and author of an infamous 1936 parody of Time magazine. We meet the demanding and eccentric founding editor Harold Ross, who would routinely tell his underlings, "I'm firing you because you are not a genius," and who once mailed a pair of his underwear to Walter Winchell, who had accused him of preferring to go bare-bottomed under his slacks. Joining the cast are the mercurial, blind James Thurber, a brilliant cartoonist and wildly inventive fabulist, and the enigmatic E. B. White—an incomparable prose stylist and Ross's favorite son—who married The New Yorker's formidable fiction editor, Katharine Angell. Then there is the dashing St. Clair McKelway, who was married five times and claimed to have no fewer than twelve personalities, but was nonetheless a superb reporter and managing editor alike. Many of these characters became legends in their own right, but Vinciguerra also shows how, as a group, The New Yorker’s inner circle brought forth a profound transformation in how life was perceived, interpreted, written about, and published in America. Cast of Characters may be the most revealing—and entertaining—book yet about the unique personalities who built what Ross called not a magazine but a "movement."

Bloomsbury Grammar Guide

Author : Gordon Jarvie
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408148013
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Bloomsbury Grammar Guide written by Gordon Jarvie and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammar, the structure of a language, is often the subject of confusion. The Bloomsbury Grammar Guide is an easy-to-use handbook which provides the answers. Updated and revised throughout, the new edition is essential reading for all writers and readers of our increasingly dynamic and global language. It contains: - Words, phrases, sentences and clauses - Punctuation - where and how to use everything from the colon to the slash - Figures of speech and literary devices - Common errors - an A-Z list of easily confused words 'A Cook's tour of the English language' Oxford Times

Writing with Style

Author : Lane Greene
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639364382
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Writing with Style written by Lane Greene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand-new edition of this classic guide on how to write with style—from The Economist's language columnist, Lane Greene. This new edition of Writing with Style offers fresh, up-to-date insight into the principles and tools we can all deploy when it comes to expressing ourselves better when we write. The book's leaner, cleaner structure ranges widely—from grammar and punctuation to using numbers and how to edit. Economist language columnist Lane Greene also tackles some of the key linguistic issues we face today, like balancing plain speech with sensitivity, and knowing when to use jargon. The result is a clear guide to making the most of the written word: conversational but authoritative; accessible yet comprehensive—with its ideas always presented with clarity and style.

Fifty Years of Relational, and Other Database Writings

Author : C.J. Date
Publisher : Technics Publications
ISBN 13 : 1634628349
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years of Relational, and Other Database Writings written by C.J. Date and published by Technics Publications. This book was released on with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years of relational. It’s hard to believe the relational model has been around now for over half a century! But it has—it was born on August 19th, 1969, when Codd’s first database paper was published. And Chris Date has been involved with it for almost the whole of that time, working closely with Codd for many years and publishing the very first, and definitive, book on the subject in 1975. In this book’s title essay, Chris offers his own unique perspective (two chapters) on those fifty years. No database professional can afford to miss this one of a kind history. But there’s more to this book than just a little personal history. Another unique feature is an extensive and in depth discussion (nine chapters) of a variety of frequently asked questions on relational matters, covering such topics as mathematics and the relational model; relational algebra; predicates; relation valued attributes; keys and normalization; missing information; and the SQL language. Another part of the book offers detailed responses to critics (four chapters). Finally, the book also contains the text of several recent interviews with Chris Date, covering such matters as RM/V2, XML, NoSQL, The Third Manifesto, and how SQL came to dominate the database landscape.

Style Guide

Author : The Economist
Publisher : The Economist
ISBN 13 : 1610399862
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Style Guide written by The Economist and published by The Economist. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expanded eleventh edition of the bestselling guide to style is based on the Economist's own updated house style manual, and is an invaluable companion for everyone who wants to communicate with the clarity, style and precision for which the Economist is renowned. As the introduction says, 'clarity of writing usually follows clarity of thought.' The Economist Style Guide gives general advice on writing, points out common errors and clich's, offers guidance on consistent use of punctuation, abbreviations and capital letters, and contains an exhaustive range of reference material - covering everything from accountancy ratios and stock market indices to laws of nature and science. Some of the numerous useful rules and common mistakes pointed out in the guide include: *Which informs, that defines. This is the house that Jack built. But: This house, which Jack built, is now falling down. Discreet means circumspect or prudent; discrete means separate or distinct. Remember that "Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are" (Oscar Wilde). Flaunt means display, flout means disdain. If you flout this distinction you will flaunt your ignorance Forgo means do without; forego means go before. Fortuitous means accidental, not fortunate or well-timed. Times: Take care. Three times more than X is four times as much as X. Full stops: Use plenty. They keep sentences short. This helps the reader.

The Mansion of Happiness

Author : Jill Lepore
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307476456
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Mansion of Happiness written by Jill Lepore and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. “That’s why any history of ideas about life and death has to be, like this book, a history of curiosity.” Lepore starts that history with the story of a seventeenth-century Englishman who had the idea that all life begins with an egg, and ends it with an American who, in the 1970s, began freezing the dead. In between, life got longer, the stages of life multiplied, and matters of life and death moved from the library to the laboratory, from the humanities to the sciences. Lately, debates about life and death have determined the course of American politics. Each of these debates has a history. Investigating the surprising origins of the stuff of everyday life—from board games to breast pumps—Lepore argues that the age of discovery, Darwin, and the Space Age turned ideas about life on earth topsy-turvy. “New worlds were found,” she writes, and “old paradises were lost.” As much a meditation on the present as an excavation of the past, The Mansion of Happiness is delightful, learned, and altogether beguiling.

English Usage for Clarity

Author : Rajjan Shinghal
Publisher : Zorba Books
ISBN 13 : 9358966629
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book English Usage for Clarity written by Rajjan Shinghal and published by Zorba Books. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “English Usage for Clarity” by Rajjan Shinghal offers a guide to English writing focused on clarity and simplicity. Using humorous quotations, Shinghal highlights the differences in styles in American, British, and Indian English. Shinghal encourages authors to adopt a style that feels natural to them, so their writing remains clear and simple. The book explains the meanings and contexts of the Latin terms used commonly in English

Fallout

Author : Lesley M.M. Blume
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982128534
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Fallout written by Lesley M.M. Blume and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The picture does not tell the whole story -- Scoop the world -- MacArthur's closed kingdom -- Six survivors -- Some events at Hiroshima -- Detonation -- Aftermath.

Encyclopedia of journalism. 6. Appendices

Author : Christopher H. Sterling
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761929576
Total Pages : 3131 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of journalism. 6. Appendices written by Christopher H. Sterling and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 3131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six-volume Encyclopedia of Journalism covers all significant dimensions of journalism including: print, broadcast and Internet journalism; US and international perspectives; history; technology; legal issues and court cases; ownership; and economics.

Opinion Writing

Author : A. Dash
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788183564328
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Opinion Writing written by A. Dash and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

America Observed

Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497639956
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book America Observed written by Alistair Cooke and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive survey of Alistair Cooke’s brilliant career as a newspaperman Few journalists have covered the American scene as thoroughly as Alistair Cooke did. In addition to presenting the Sunday-night Letter from America broadcasts for the BBC, Cooke was the Guardian’s chief US correspondent for more than a quarter century, filing daily dispatches about the former colonies for his British readers. Selected and introduced by Professor Ronald A. Wells, the pieces in America Observed showcase the full range of Cooke’s omnivorous interests and impressive reportorial skills. From baseball to Billy Graham, Harry S. Truman to Chappaquiddick, he depicts the defining characters and events of the American century with elegance and insight. “The Untravelled Road” is a poignant and perceptive snapshot of the civil rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama. “The Legend of Gary Cooper” eloquently summarizes the unlikely career of America’s leading man, and “A Woman of Integrity” delivers the news of Marilyn Monroe’s death with empathy and honesty. “The Ghastly Sixties” is a concise, candid, and ultimately inspirational chronicle of that turbulent decade. Remarkably prescient and endlessly entertaining, the journalism collected here is some of the twentieth century’s finest.

The World of Business

Author : The Economist,
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781846681585
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book The World of Business written by The Economist, and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of fascinating facts and figures, this book is a highly entertaining look at all aspects of business, including: The biggest firms The biggest bankruptcies Business blunders Bad boys Leading management thinkers Past business giants Inventors and inventions Famous patents A great many questions, including the following, are answered: How many billion spam e-mails are sent each day? Who said, "Business is a combination of war and sport"? Which are the world's most valuable brands? When and what was the Mississippi Bubble? Which company "exists to benefit and refresh everyone it touches"? How much do the best-paid hedge fund managers earn? The editors of The Economist have culled these facts and figures to inform and to amuse anyone interested in the changing world of business. This is an ideal gift for anyone interested in the business world.

The Universal Journalist

Author : David Randall
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781919713595
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Universal Journalist written by David Randall and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2000-07-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irrespective of language or culture, good journalists share a common commitment to the search for truth, often in far from ideal circumstances. With this assertion, David Randall emphasises that good journalism does not only concern universal objectives, it must also involve the acquisition of a range of skills that will empower journalists to operate in an industry where ownership, technology and information are constantly changing. This acclaimed handbook challenges old attitudes, procedures and techniques of journalism. This fully updated edition includes new sections on handling numbers and statistics, computer-assisted reporting and writing for the Web, as well as an extensively revised chapter on what makes a good reporter, and a new section on sources. Now, more than ever, this handbook is an invaluable guide to the 'universals' of good journalistic practice for professional and trainee journalists world-wide.

Dispatches from the Pacific

Author : Ray E. Boomhower
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253029937
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Dispatches from the Pacific written by Ray E. Boomhower and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1943, armed with only his notebooks and pencils, Time and Life correspondent Robert L. Sherrod leapt from the safety of a landing craft and waded through neck-deep water and a hail of bullets to reach the shores of the Tarawa Atoll with the US Marine Corps. Living shoulder to shoulder with the marines, Sherrod chronicled combat and the marines' day-to-day struggles as they leapfrogged across the Central Pacific, battling the Japanese on Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. While the marines courageously and doggedly confronted an enemy that at times seemed invincible, those left behind on the American home front desperately scanned Sherrod's columns for news of their loved ones. Following his death in 1994, the Washington Post heralded Sherrod's reporting as "some of the most vivid accounts of men at war ever produced by an American journalist." Now, for the first time, author Ray E. Boomhower tells the story of the journalist in Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod, an intimate account of the war efforts on the Pacific front.