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Essay Writing – Newness Not Taught in Textbooks Or By Teachers

Let me tell you, up front, the most important thing in writing: ………………………………………………………..What’s new to the reader. “Big deal!” you may say. “My English teacher tells me that kind of stuff all the time! She’s constantly saying, ‘Tell me something NEW and INTERESTING! Show me that you’re thinking for yourself!’ “Oh, yeah—–she also says, ‘And […]

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Social Media Marketing Basics: Building Your On-Line Reputation

In the past, the only way to enhance your professional reputation on-line was to endure the hassle and time commitment of maintaining a professional blog. The advent of on-line social networking groups, specific subject forums, and question/answer websites provides a new avenue for amplifying your on-line professional presence, which can advance your job search. These […]

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Writing Essays – Seeing the New View in Carl Sagan’s Essay, The Abstraction of Beasts

If you’ll follow and learn this three-step method of analyzing published essays I show here, you’ll be able to understand published essays and write your own essays about them. Carl Sagan has written an excellent essay, “The Abstraction of Beasts,” providing another strong illustration of the old view – new view pattern intuitively used in […]

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A Review of Michael Baxandall’s Painting and Experience in 15th Century Italy

Baxandall’s Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style was first published in 1972. Although relatively short it has subsequently been published in numerous languages, most recently Chinese, with a second edition published in 1988. Since publication it has been described in such favourable terms as being ‘intelligent, […]

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