Archive for the ‘Writing Skills’ Category
How to start a movement
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011Have you ever thought about starting your movement ?
Are you burning with the desire to gather the masses together for attention to some critical issue or project?
Take a look at the video below. With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.)
What movements will you start?
How Not to Write Badly?
Saturday, July 31st, 2010This week on WORDMASTER: Charles Harrington Elster, author of “The Accidents of Style: Good Advice on How Not to Write Badly.”
RS: It’s full of examples, such as this common error.
Continue reading here
Listening to the story here
The Accidents of Style: Good Advice on How Not to Write Badly
How do you feel when you write in English? How difficult is it for you to write in English?
To Help you Live Your Dreams we added a New Member
Monday, July 12th, 2010Hello Fans,
I hope you had a great weekend.
I wanted to take some time to thank you for your positive interest, constructive comments and continuing support.
Because we want you feel more comfortable, have a superior experience and more importantly achieve your goals in the United States, I added a new member to our International Team.
It’s now my pleasure to introduce to you our new member, Bethiël.
Bethiël Tekle Mariam is an Eritrean lady, born and raised in the Netherlands. She moved to the sunny California 6 months ago to pursue her American Dream. Currently, she is enrolled in an International Management & Operations Certificate program at the University of California, Irvine, and she plans on starting off her professional career this fall within the field of International Marketing & Communication. This 26 year-old has a passion for travelling, and she is fortunate to have seen all the major cities in Europe and the USA. While studying abroad in St. Louis, Missouri and Valencia, Spain she understood how much cultural differences can make someone not feel at home. In St. Louis, Missouri, she was involved in the International Business Club and the International Student Organization. During her recent experience in the United States, she learned how to overcome and adjust herself to any obstacles she ran into.
Bethiel joined U in the USA to share her experience, help you feel more at home within the American culture and more importantly help you live your dreams. In the days to come, she will personally connect with each of you to discuss your interests, questions and ways to reach your own goals.
I will appreciate your help in making Bethiël feel welcome in our community.
Thank you.
Jean-Marc Dedeyne
U in the USA
“International Students & Visitors. Life Simplified!”
Want to know more about Bethiël click here
25 useful resources to improve your writing
Thursday, June 24th, 2010If you’re interested in improving your writing skills, Online MBA just did you a big favor. They’ve compiled twenty-five handy references and resources to help you tighten your form, grammar, style, and punctuation.
Get the goods at Online MBA.
An Editorialist’s Opinion of How to Write Better
Monday, April 26th, 2010This week on WORDMASTER: Another voice from the recent Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages convention in Boston. Patricia Kelvin has a doctorate in the teaching of writing. She was an award-winning editorial writer on a newspaper. And she says thinking like an editorial writer can help students improve their writing.
“So much of English writing is based on writing about literature, which is because most English teachers are first and foremost literature teachers rather than writing teachers. On the other hand, the kinds of writings that most students will do in their futures doesn’t really have to do with writing about something that’s already been written.
“And if you look at what a journalist does in editorial writing, they’re writing about something that’s very topical. They have to find out information about that topic. They have to develop arguments for the newspaper’s position. They have to be able to refute the arguments of anybody who’s opposed to that. And they need to do it very quickly, and they need to do it in a relatively short way. You can’t write a thousand-word editorial, for example.” Continue reading here
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Source : VOA News
185 Great Writing Tips
Monday, April 19th, 2010The Success Manual has aggregated 185 writing tips. Part I includes George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, Elmore Leonard, Robert Heinlein, and Stephen King. Part II includes twenty more writers such as Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, and Jack Kerouac.
Source : Alltop / Guy Kawasaki here
