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Apr 29 |
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Table of content in Newsletter Hi and welcome to Writers.SE. Could you clarify what you mean by "valid"? Are you looking for style guides that support this? Are you asking how common it is? Something else? |
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Apr 26 |
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How can I get my students to better integrate their sources into their writing? This is how I was taught too -- one idea/fact per card, and group them as @LaurenIpsum said in a comment above. These days it might not be physical cards, but same idea. |
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Apr 25 |
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How can I get my students to better integrate their sources into their writing? I can answer from the "what works for me as a writer" perspective, but not from the perspective of a teacher. |
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Apr 25 |
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How can I get my students to better integrate their sources into their writing? Good question. What methods are they using to compile their source notes now? For example, are they reviewing sources one at a time and compiling a set of notes for each? or is the research more integrated but the writing isn't? (I'm thinking the answer involves organizing those notes by topic rather than by source, but I've only faced this problem from the student/writer side, not the teacher side, so am guessing somewhat.) |
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Apr 19 |
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Multiple tasks and a step by step tutorial I would number those 3a and 3b, not 4a and 4b, as the branch point itself isn't really a step. |
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Apr 19 |
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Best practice for stories based on other writers' stories How should this be tagged? Should we create adaptation? (This problem arises in fan-fiction, but that doesn't seem to be the context of this particular question, nor is it parody. |
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Apr 19 |
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Ways to speed up my writing to 15 - 20 pages a day Thorough is good. :-) |
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Apr 18 |
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Ways to speed up my writing to 15 - 20 pages a day Hi Rebecca and welcome to Writers.SE! I'm glad you've chosen to spend some of your writing-related surfing time with us. I look forward to seeing you around the site. |
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Apr 17 |
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What is the correct word/term that needs to be before the names of the maker of the project? edited tags |
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Apr 17 |
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What is the correct word/term that needs to be before the names of the maker of the project? Hi Belgi and welcome to Writers.SE. Can you add some information to this question about what your project is (class project? research proposal? hobby? etc), and where you plan to publish/submit it? Thanks. |
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Apr 16 |
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Improving techniques independently: Description I think this question is too broad to be answerable here. (It also feels like a list question.) I think it would work better if you asked specific questions of the form "how do I improve technique X?". Try to ask the "how" question; if there are authors who are particularly good at that it will come up in answers. Your goal is to get better at X, not just to find authors, so try to ask about the goal and not about one possible approach. Does that make sense? |
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Apr 15 |
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PDF e-book page size and fonts Are you conflating submission requirements (what editors require for evaluation) with publication requirements (what the question seems to be asking about)? |
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Apr 15 |
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Which e-book formats to use to get a larger readership? PDF on a 7" device, at least, is unworkable unless you have exceptionally-good vision. In general PDF is bad for accessibility; by encoding page format you are forcing people with a display smaller than your target to scroll awkwardly. Are you sure your content is worth that trouble to your potential readers? (So aside from epub and mobi, if you're aiming for tablets, HTML will serve more users than PDF will unless you're doing small-page format.) |
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Apr 12 |
reviewed | Leave Open How to avoid specifying the gender in English when the original text does not specify it? |
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Apr 10 |
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Automated correction of google translated documents Thanks for the edit! I hope someone here can help you find such a tool. |
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Apr 10 |
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Automated correction of google translated documents @translator, welcome to Writers.SE and I'm sorry this is being frustrating for you. As Neil said, we want to make sure your question is one that's on-topic here, and, if not, help you find a better place to ask. |
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Apr 9 |
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1st person story, but the main character will die in the end and some of the story needs to be told after his death. How to solve this problem? Any time I read a first-person story a part of me says "ok, well at least we know this guy will survive". So it's pleasant to encounter cases where that's not true. (The third-person epilogue is the most common solution I've seen, but I really like Lauren's additional suggestions!) |
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Apr 8 |
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Writing in second language @Des, no need to apologize; we're trying to help you improve the question, not make you feel bad. Could you clarify what you mean by "what terms and rules should I notice"? Are you asking about how to choose the best English words for the foreign-language concepts you're trying to convey? |
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Apr 8 |
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Writing in second language Des, I'm closing this question so you can clarify, so people don't answer the wrong question (or guess). Please ping Neil or me when you've edited. Thanks! (And please don't be put off by the canned "not real" language below; we don't get to control that.) |
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Apr 8 |
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Writing in second language I'm having trouble understanding what you're asking. Are you asking about rules for poetic forms in English? Particular English terms/words that have special meanings (symbolism, etc)? Something else? |
