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eWriting(ISBN -9689542-5-1)
THE STATS
Length
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150
(640-by-480 pixel resolution)
screens
long
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"Nothing helps scenery like
ham and
eggs."
- Mark Twain
Did u no?
33% of
U.S. employees fail at writing.
Whether
it's an e-mail memo or a
complex report, fully
1/3 of the U.S. workforce doesnot
meet
the
minimum
writing requirements 4their jobs ac-
cording 2a College Board's National
Commis-
sion survey on writing. The survey was done
with 64companies across 6industries repre-
senting 4,000,000 employees: mining+con-
struction+manufacturing+transportation+util-
ities+services+finance+insurance+real estate.
Did u no?
The major writing problems 4them r accuracy+
clarity+spelling+punctuation+grammar+con-
ciseness. Susan Traiman, director of the
edu-
cation initiative for the Business Roundtable,
says: There's
no way to
say that writing has
gotten
worse: the
demand has
gotten greater.
Tip: improving your writing skills (stringing
verbs+nouns+adjectives
together
2make
a sense) will payoff because
more
than 1/2 the companies surveyed
said they
do assess writing skills when
they make hiring+promotion
decisions.
"Every
writer
approaches
the day's work in
different ways: I
have always needed space
and silence to pull
inside myself before
I
pick
up
the pen. (Yes,
I still write with pen
and real ink.) This pulling
inside may
take
an hour or a morning, I know it's happening
while I'm dripping
coffee
through a hand-
filter; I know that
in
some
unforced way, I
am readying myself
to face the
empty
page
not as easy as one
might believe."
- Frances
Itani
~~~
"If they
give you ruled paper,
write the
other way."
-
E. E. Cummings
Tips on getting
organized ...
http://www.getorganizednow.com
~~~
"As a rule, men worry more about what
they
caN'T see than about
what they can."
-
Julius Caesar
"Every
man a king!"
-
Huey Long, Governor of Louisiana, 1928
"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge
is limited. Imagination encircles
the
world."
-
Albert Einstein
"There
are no beginnings, noteven
to
stories.
There
are
only
places where you make an en-
trance
into someone
else's life and
either stay
or
turn and go away."
-
Timothy Findley, Canadian writer
~~~
literacy.org
http://www.literacy.org
"Reading is the means by which
the world does
a
large part of
its work ... .
The slightest
improve-
ment
either in the page
or in the method of rea-
ding
means
a great service to the
human race."
-
E. B. Huey, 1908 - 1968
Did
u no?
The pop
culture
comic book
super
heroe like flying
Superman draw on
the
legendary heroes of Greek+Roman
mythology possessing great strength
like
Hercules, having flying horses like
Bellerophon's Pegasus,
even
flying themselves
like Hermes with
his winged sandals.
Reading
motivation program (Grades K-8) (FREE)
http://www.bookadventure.org
Center
for
Environmental Literacy
http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/center-for-environmental-literacy/river-of-words
~~~
Did u no?
According 2 a 2003 Harris Poll the #1 leisure
activity is reading 26%
of the time, followed
by watching television 15% of the time --
a
whopping 35%
drop from just 2 years ago.
Public Libraries - USA
http://www.publiclibraries.com
American Library Association
http://www.ala.org
The Public's Library+Digital Archive
http://www.ibiblio.org
The Universal Digital Library
http://www.ulib.org
The Internet Public Library search
engine
http://www.ipl.org/
43,500+ libraries, 86 countries - multilingual
http://www.oclc.org
~~~
"Books
are good enough in their own way,
but
they are a mighty bloodless substitute
for
life."
-
Robert Louis Stevenson
~~~
Did u no?
The word archetype
('r-keh-type) is
an important notion in litterature: it re-
fers 2an original
model, form, or pattern
that
is
easy recognized. (4example, the
archetypical
villain wears black+comes
on2 the stage from the left while the
archetypical hero wears white+enters
the stage from the right.)
~~~
the
classics
@the Online Literature Library
http://www.literature.org/authors
The British
Library
http://www.bl.uk
~~~
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