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The News -
Writing
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Written by Danielle Hollister
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 Although Online Writing Labs or OWLs are developed by various
universities throughout the world, they provide valuable resources for
all types of writers.
OWLs offer information similar to the tips I wrote about in my last feature Working With Words: The Basics...
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The News -
Writing
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Written by Allison Nazarian
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 What websites need is better writing. And I don’t say that because I’m a writer.
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sad truth is that – in very general terms – the quality of web writing
is mediocre. I’m not calling for elegant prose. What I’m saying is that
what your website reveals – in clear, well-placed words – influences
what people think of you, your product, your company.
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The News -
Books, Authors and Poets
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Written by Julie Phillips
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 In a 1997 interview, the Voice asked Kurt Vonnegut why he had never written about his time as a prisoner of war in Germany aside from that one central episode, the firebombing of Dresden. He responded, essentially, that being a prisoner of war was a story with no protagonist, no hero. "It was an utterly passive experience. . . . Hell, I did nothing. It was all done to me. So you don't want to talk about it."
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The News -
Books, Authors and Poets
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Written by Alexis Soloski
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 In 2005, when John Banville heard his name called as the winner of the Booker Prize for his novel The Sea, he looked around the hall and thought, Imagine how many people hate me right now. In the 38 years he's spent writing fiction, Banville has certainly acquired a few enemies—many of them stung by his waspish, acute reviews in The Irish Times and The New York Review of Books. He's also obtained a loyal coterie of readers, who celebrate his baroque prose and ambitious structures. But in the Irish writer's latest books, a series of noir novels published under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, he has has let slip some of his stylistic and structural opulence. In 2007's Christine Falls and the just-released The Silver Swan, Banville—or, shall we say, Black—has crafted a set of detective novels set amid the mist-swathed Dublin of the 1950s, both featuring the pathologist-cum-detective Quirke.
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