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Write like a pro : ten techniques for getting your point across at work (and in life)
\"For those looking to become great business writers, this practical guide supplies clear instruction and examples of how to organize thoughts into written form, impart information with pinpoint accuracy, persuade, and hold the reader's interest: in short, to use language to get what you want.Presents a clear, no-nonsense guide to excellent writing using easily grasped tricks and techniques employed by top writers Encapsulates these key writing methodologies in ten basic techniques, each broken down into ten actionable steps Provides an immediate \"take-away\" and valuable, practical advice for becoming a better writer in each paragraph Describes and demonstrates the steps in a way that is memorable and even enjoyable to learn\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Hétérolinguisme : écrire et figurer l'expérience plurilingue. Quelques exemples dans la littérature contemporaine en français
This essay aims to describe plurilingualism in French literature focusing on self-writing of contemporary writers who have more than one language in their repertoire and who have chosen French as a writing language. Beyond language experience and linguistic awareness these writers express, we propose to describe some of the poetical and discursive devices of heterolingualism in their writings. Cet article aborde le plurilinguisme dans la littérature d’expression française à travers les écrits de soi d’écrivain.e.s contemporain.e.s ayant, parmi d’autres langues de leur répertoire, choisi la langue française comme langue d’écriture. Au-delà de l’expérience langagière ou de la conscience linguistique dont témoignent ces écrivain.e.s, nous proposerons de décrire quelques dimensions poétiques et discursives de l’hétérolinguisme de leurs œuvres.
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Storytelling Philosophy and Self Writing—Preliminary Notes on Elena Ferrante
In this interview, Italian feminist thinker Adriana Cavarero discusses the complexity of Elena Ferrante’s narratives. Connecting Cavarero’s storytelling philosophy and Foucault’s concept of self writing, the exchange between Cavarero and the young scholar Isabella Pinto shows how the materiality of Ferrante’s identity emerges from the philosophical landscape of the “narratable self ” and the “relationality in a concrete situation,” thereby establishing a new “pact with the reader.” Furthermore, the interview shows how Italian feminist thought can be used to reread literary tradition, to critique academic methods of transmission of knowledge, and to criticize the subduing effect of social networks on writing the self.
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Two-way mirror : a poetry notebook
\"The poem is perhaps the highest verbal form of communication. It illuminates and it conceals. It is as precise and as vague as a mirror. Two-Way Mirror is a classic book of poetics by Beat Generation poet David Meltzer. Written in short remarks, autobiographical anecdotes, and inspirational quotations drawn from philosophical, ethnographic, and literary sources, Two-Way Mirror is both a nondidactic guide to the art Meltzer has devoted his life to, and a literary pleasure in itself. Attractively bound and printed in a deluxe gift edition, and featuring Meltzer's collection of found artwork collaged from thrift-store grammar books, this new and expanded edition retains the charm of the original while updating it for the present day. Building upon the version he self-published in 1977, Meltzer has written additional material that considers the effect of technological developments since the book's publication, as well as an afterword in which he reflects on the history of the volume, its inception, and its usefulness. With its various writing prompts, Two-Way Mirror has proven to be both inspirational and practical, a teaching tool and a guide to creativity that makes the perfect gift for poets at any stage of development. Praise for Two-Way Mirror \"David Meltzer had set out, when he was very young, to write a long poem called The History of Everything, an ambition that his later poetry brought ever closer to fulfillment. Here, in Two-Way Mirror, he shows us the underpinnings for such an enterprise: a brilliant & wise work as rich in insights & discoveries today as when it was first published in 1977. I know of no better amalgam of poetry & poetics & no better introduction to the ways in which poetry can emerge for us & lead us beyond ourselves & toward our own fulfillments. Meltzer's grace of mind & the life of poetry that surrounds it make the case complete.\"-Jerome Rothenberg \"A great book of learning from a lifetime's thoughts of the poem. Ramble, scribble, tickle, lightbulb! Timely and highly worthwhile.\"--Clark Coolidge Praise for David Meltzer: \"One of the greats of post-World War Two San Francisco poets and musicians. He brought music to poetry and poetry to music!\"--Lawrence Ferlinghetti \"David Meltzer is a hidden adept, one of the secret treasures on our planet. Great poet, musician, comic, mystic unsurpassed, performer with few peers. His ear and his erudiation are fine-tuned and precise. A kind of bop-perfection pervades his work.\"--Diane di Prima About the Author: David Meltzer is a poet, novelist, editor, and musician. He has edited many anthologies, including SF Beat: Talking with the Poets. His most recent book is When I Was a Poet, Number 60 in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has called him \"one of the greats of post-World-War-Two San Francisco poets and musicians.\" \"-- Provided by publisher.
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The academic web profile as agenre of “self-making”
Purpose – The activities of academic researchers are increasingly regulated by neo-liberal ideals, includingexpectations that researchers are visible online and actively promote their output. The purpose of this paper isto explore how researchers take on this responsibility. It uses the concepts of genre, authorship and self-writingin order to understand how the story of an academic life is constructed on academic web profiles.
Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative content analysis was conducted of material on 64 profilesbelonging to 20 researchers on institutional and personal websites, as well as on ResearchGate, Academica.edu and Google Scholar.
Findings – The study shows that while institutional websites primarily contain researcher-producedmaterial, content on commercial platforms is often co-constructed through distributed authorship by theresearcher, the platform and other platform users. Nine different ways in which the profile of an “academicself” may be said to highlight the particular strengths of a researcher are identified. These include bothmetrics-based strengths and qualitative forms of information about the academic life, such as experience, theimportance of their research and good teaching.
Social implications – This study of academic web profiles contributes to a better understanding of howresearchers self-govern the story of their academic self, or resist such governance, in online environments.
Originality/value – The study furthers the knowledge of how researchers make use of and respond todigital tools for online visibility opportunities and how the story of the “academic self” is “made” for suchpublic presentation.
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Action journal : talk like a pirate, analyze your dreams, fingerprint your friends, rule your own country, and other wild things to do to be yourself
\"The National Geographic Kids Action Journal is perfect for the 5 million middle grade readers that love National Geographic Kids magazine. Each page in this book presents readers with inventive, fun, and funky instructions for simple and entertaining tasks that will help them explore themselves and the world around them\"--Publisher's website.
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Representing M(other): A Cixousian Reading of Memoirs Written by Jeanette Winterson and Elif Shafak
Writing about themselves, women return to their mothers and secure their self-identification by writing about the newly founded mother-daughter relationship. Nonetheless, depicting the concept of the mother is remarkably onerous because her image is either idealized by the patriarchal society or overlooked as a passive character under the masculine power of the father. Therefore, in order to depict a fair image of the mother, woman writers are compelled to stand against this overly simplistic depiction to portray her as complex and different. In doing so, women’s self-writings will successfully remember the mother’s voice and refer to her unique qualities. In this article, I would argue that Elif Shafak’s and Jeanette Winterson’s memoirs are tightly bonded with the concept of the mother, which is compatible with the way Hé lène Cixous defines and writes about not only her mother, but motherhood in general.
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The academic web profile as a genre of “self-making”
Purpose
The activities of academic researchers are increasingly regulated by neo-liberal ideals, including expectations that researchers are visible online and actively promote their output. The purpose of this paper is to explore how researchers take on this responsibility. It uses the concepts of genre, authorship and self-writing in order to understand how the story of an academic life is constructed on academic web profiles.
Design/methodology/approach
A qualitative content analysis was conducted of material on 64 profiles belonging to 20 researchers on institutional and personal websites, as well as on ResearchGate, Academica.edu and Google Scholar.
Findings
The study shows that while institutional websites primarily contain researcher-produced material, content on commercial platforms is often co-constructed through distributed authorship by the researcher, the platform and other platform users. Nine different ways in which the profile of an “academic self” may be said to highlight the particular strengths of a researcher are identified. These include both metrics-based strengths and qualitative forms of information about the academic life, such as experience, the importance of their research and good teaching.
Social implications
This study of academic web profiles contributes to a better understanding of how researchers self-govern the story of their academic self, or resist such governance, in online environments.
Originality/value
The study furthers the knowledge of how researchers make use of and respond to digital tools for online visibility opportunities and how the story of the “academic self” is “made” for such public presentation.
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