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Feb 21 |
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Do I include the method of my research in the title? Hello and welcome to Writers! In order to answer this question we would need to know more about where this paper will be published; different formats (journal, conference, poster session, etc) and different domains tend to have different expectations. Could you edit more details into your question? Thanks. |
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Feb 21 |
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Punctuation and capitalisation in poetry Do you capitalize "I"? (Or does it not come up in your poem?) Have you considered dodging the problem by using a nickname/allusion for the city instead of its name, if it has one? |
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Feb 21 |
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Should I state my intentions/outline my structure at the beginning of an academic essay? Hello and welcome to Writers! What level of school are you talking about? (High school, undergrad, grad...) And how short is short? |
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Feb 17 |
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how should a writer use version control to track drafts, rewrites, and revisions? small typo in title |
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Feb 17 |
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how should a writer use version control to track drafts, rewrites, and revisions? One thing I would add: use meaningful checkin comments. (I assume git has checkin comments.) Later when you're browsing the revision history looking for, say, where you introduced a new major character, these comments will save you lots of time. There is no virtue in terse checkin comments. |
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Feb 17 |
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How can I make a collection of essays / arguments more attractive to publishers? added more examples |
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Feb 15 |
awarded | Convention |
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Feb 14 |
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How to handle taxes for a self-published book I haven't sold books (through Amazon or otherwise), but I've always reported music royalties as misc income in the appropriate place on the forms, without setting up a formal business/corporation/DBA, and that seems to work fine. Good point about sales tax, by the way; setting that up can be kind of a pain, so if you can make it Amazon's problem and not yours, so much the better. |
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Feb 14 |
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What's the best version control system for a book writer? Hi Peter and welcome to Writers.SE! How frequently do you make (or would you want to check in) changes? Since you're on OSX, does Time Machine help you or do you need something more granular? |
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Feb 13 |
answered | How can I express this fragment more clearly and concisely? |
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Feb 13 |
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How can I express this fragment more clearly and concisely? Hi and welcome! A couple questions to help me understand what you're going for: it sounds like the reader has an application that was in turn built by your product (so 2 steps removed); is that right? Is this an exhaustive list of relevant business functions or are these examples? When you say "the information could be included", what information do you mean -- reports? Thanks! |
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Feb 13 |
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How to have a character be nameless for the first few paragraphs of a book? Actually, try it -- I know I've read stories that start out that way and I kept reading. (Can't call an example to mind right now, alas.) But that said, I also endorse Lauren's answer. |
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Feb 13 |
reviewed | Reviewed Would a paid-for review from Kirkus give me real insight into quality of my manuscript? |
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Feb 13 |
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Would a paid-for review from Kirkus give me real insight into quality of my manuscript? Welcome to Writers.SE! I was wondering if you could update your answer to say more about how you know what you say -- have you used them (or do you know someone who did), for example? Thanks. |
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Feb 13 |
reviewed | Reviewed What is a discovery writer? |
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Feb 12 |
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How to have a character be nameless for the first few paragraphs of a book? Is there something about indefinite personal pronouns (he/him) that doesn't work? |
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Feb 11 |
accepted | What is the role of editors in news media today? |
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Feb 7 |
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What is the role of editors in news media today? I'm mildly horrified, on rereading, that I referred to "young folks". When did I become an old fogey? :-) |
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Feb 7 |
reviewed | Edit How do greetings vary with time of day? |
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Feb 7 |
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How do greetings vary with time of day? retag (removed technical writing) |
