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Apr 7 |
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Ways to improve your writing skills Glad to help! Do also consider the other answers; reading helps you get a feel for the language, and what I suggested helps you put it into practice. |
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Apr 7 |
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Is a glossary needed in a novel? @Des, you should explain the term when you introduce it; don't force readers to go to a glossary to get that information. But providing a glossary with additional information, or for reference when the reader sees the term again in 50 pages and says "wait, what was that again?", is another matter. |
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Apr 7 |
answered | Ways to improve your writing skills |
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Apr 5 |
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The value of labeling book sections Much better, thanks! Reopened. |
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Apr 5 |
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The value of labeling book sections Hi tylerharms. I agree with Lauren that this is too open-ended as written. I'm going to close it; please do edit to focus it more on pros/cons and less on discussion, and then ping a moderator (or flag) so we can consider for re-opening. (Close isn't forever; it's just temporary, so people don't go off and answer the wrong question.) Thanks very much; I think there is a good question in here and I look forward to your update. |
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Apr 5 |
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How to avoid specifying the gender in English when the original text does not specify it? I can see why this has been nominated for ELL, but I think there's a subtle difference: ELL will tell you words you can use, but Writers will tell you how to write around the problem. I think the latter is on-topic here, but (e.g.) a question about the correctness of singular "they" would not be. |
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Apr 2 |
awarded | Civic Duty |
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Apr 2 |
answered | How should I introduce new and complex technologies or tools? |
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Mar 27 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Using dashes in writing dialogue |
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Mar 27 |
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Should I write about how the character solved some riddle or let the reader solve it himself Yes, this -- if it's important enough to mention the riddle then the question merits some air time, and if it's not important, then we don't need to know what the specific riddle is either. |
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Mar 27 |
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How can I consistently distinguish among tables, fields, and records in a database? I answered the specific part of your question, but I'm not clear on what you're asking in the final paragraph. Are you looking for prose that explains what a DB table is, or a technique you can use, or something else? |
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Mar 27 |
answered | How can I consistently distinguish among tables, fields, and records in a database? |
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Mar 24 |
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Hand wrote 200 page novel- how many typed pages is that? See ElizaWy's answer about word count, rather than page count, being the key factor, but to answer what you asked: you could type up a couple representative pages from your notebook and see what you get. |
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Mar 22 |
answered | Getting details of a past century right |
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Mar 17 |
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Best way to emphasise the greenness of the fields in spring in comparison with summer These suggestions convey the sense of the original text without being a full-on rewrite (though see msh210's comment on another answer about negative vs positive). Shlomi, I assume your goal is closer to translation than to rewrite, yes? |
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Mar 15 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Should freelance writers keep their online business separate from offline? |
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Mar 15 |
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What to name the parts of my thesis Hello and welcome to Writers.SE. Why do you want to use uncommon names? Does your universtiy expect you to follow a particular form (so that all theses will look the same in broad strokes)? |
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Mar 13 |
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singular or plural for index entries I agree that being able to bring a source would be better, and I don't have one to hand. I wonder which style guides cover indexing and not just "body copy"? |
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Mar 13 |
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singular or plural for index entries This is what I do. In the doc I'm currently working on, I talk about the such-and-such server (singular) and index it in the singular, but I talk about the things returned from that server in the plural and index them that way. |
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Mar 12 |
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Structure for computer science research paper Hi James and welcome to Writers.SE. As Lauren said this is kind of localized, but to try to help you out even if this question gets closed: what I would mean by that distinction were I writing or assigning the paper is that 3 is "what you did" and 4 is "what key decisions led you to do that". You don't want to clutter up a discussion of methodology with all those "why" details, but you don't want to drop them either. |
