People learn in different ways so if the reader is missing the content of your explanation you can explain it in another way. People are visual learners, auditory learners and kinesthetic (feeling-senses) learners. Try to include each of these learning methods in your copy so all of the learning styles can connect with your writing. Someone who is a visual learner will respond to words that are visual like see, look at, watching and observing. Someone who is an auditory learner will respond to hear, sounds, volume level, audios and talking. A kinesthetic learner will understand how you feel, want touch, how something feels and texture words like smooth, rough, sharp and cold or hot. Try sentences that can appeal to each of them like: Going behind the scenes of this event, you can see that this ice sculpture is very detailed and as you touch it, it is very cold and smooth. You can hear the crackling as the ice sculpture artist is working to meet the event opening and the sounds of the set up for the display as well as those of the tools being used to create this beautiful piece of ice art. I know the artist is feeling stressed at the moment but will experience immense satisfaction when the event opens and they hear the comments of the viewers of the exhibit. They always take pictures so they have the memories of their accomplishment before the ice melts and the sculpture disappears back to a cold puddle of water. With some practice you will be able to include each of the learning styles. Your readers will appreciate the extra care you have given to your descriptions in your story line. Each of the characters if you are writing fiction can have a set of characteristics. Sometimes the tension/conflict in your story can come from one learning style character trying to communicate to another learning style in their own primary style. The other person can show confusion if the first character tries to communicate in a different style to the second person who does not usually use that style when they interact with another person. It is a great way to practice your writing so you reinforce the difference in the styles and then blend them to enhance your overall story. In non fiction you have the opportunity to include each of the learning styles too. Practice, have fun and compare your stories to see what you are able to add to improve the readers experience. You are sure to increase your number of readers when they see you include everyone.
Archive for December, 2005
Just when you think you have life by the cajones, fate grabs hold and squeezes the complacency out of you. It’s my own fault. I sold my father such a bill of goods on our fishing trip he decided to go all out to assure that I have a bright future. Who asked him? Anyway, he used his muscle at Yale to get me into an experimental High School for gifted children; Yale it seems has some input in the school’s curriculum. Now I’m going to be surrounded by other would be geniuses. This is the pits. I don’t need peers. I need a flock to appreciate my wisdom. I decided to separate myself from the other kids by evidencing my obvious superiority even to this august group of wanna bees. So I invented a new religion. I call it Dialectic Spiritualism. It meets the needs of the time we live in. The short form definition of it is that it allows people to practice a reasoned logical belief in a universal entity that has overall control over our lives — a Supreme Being, the one God. Belonging to an organized religion is neither a requirement nor a deterrent to the ‘practice’. All you really have to do is believe that there is a reason for everything even if you’re too stupid to understand it. That’s what I’m here for. I am the interpreter. I am the Messenger. The ‘practice’ involves an acceptance of the fact that we humans are weak, frail, scared, insecure, and desperately in need of believing in a Supreme Being that will keep us safe and out of harms way. Once you accept this doctrine you are automatically a member of the club. We don’t have actual churches in Dialectic Spiritualism. Our faith is based on need, want, and fear for our very lives. No other symbols are required. To be a successful convert you simply have to believe. In other words, you have to have Faith. Like most leaders of a new religious movement, I am meeting some resistance from the uninformed who consider my views not secular enough for them. This Dialectic Spiritualism stuff is definitely not for the Atheists in the school. Don’t get me wrong, I am not afraid of getting burned at the stake or anything — this is the twenty-first century. It is more like I am being shunned. I don’t mind. I am used to being alone. Even when I had Billy for a friend I was alone. I notice I’m not the only kid here who is alone. Traveling through the halls in groups of one seems to be the schools dress code. “If you are uncertain about the future, if you are unhappy, if you are in need, come with me. All that is required is a reasoned faith in the Almighty.” That’s what I tell my flock in my sermons in the hallowed halls of the Esperanza School. I can tell they are listening because they stop milling around. The nervous tapping of feet stops, crotch scratching stops, hair primping stops and best of all the various nervous ticks and twitches of these pseudo intellects seem to come to rest. That’s the only recognition I get that they are listening to the Messenger. “Don’t be afraid I tell them. You are the chosen ones. You have been selected by nature in Gods good wisdom to lead this country out of fear and complacency. You are the ones. Only you and I can make a difference. We are special. We have promise. It’s preordained.” The third time I gave my sermon I observed no change in reaction by my flock. I was beginning to get disillusioned. Then an event occurred that was to be a major epiphany in my life. A girl came over to me after my speech and introduced herself. She told me how much she enjoyed my sermon. She told me I had given her faith. She now believed in the righteousness of Dialectic Spiritualism. She told me her name was Alice. For the first time in my life I was speechless. She was kind. Alice understood my shyness. She gave me time to compose myself. I was so grateful. Alice has good words. In fact everything about her is terrific. She has shiny brown hair, really deep dark sparkling brown eyes, the clearest skin I ever saw — I am getting that teenage scourge called acne — and the most beautiful sympathetic smile you could ever imagine. When she smiles at me I melt inside. I feel all warm and prickly. I don’t know what’s happening to me. I think I’m in love. Can you believe it? Me the philosopher genius am in love and with a girl. We spend all our time together in between classes now. Alice tells me I am really brilliant. She says one day the world will come to appreciate my theories and words of wisdom. I walk her home after school. We hold hands. I feel all sweaty in a good kind of way. I forgot to mention Alice has a great figure. She is two inches shorter than me and has the smallest waist. I can put my hands around it. She is starting to grow really nice breasts. They are small, upturned, and firm, and her nipples show through her sweater. Sorry I shouldn’t lie. I haven’t felt her breasts yet, but I want to. I’m sure they’re firm and delicious. What is happening to me? I am starting to want her in a carnal way. Boy have I changed. Is this what love is all about? How could I have been so dumb? I can’t believe what I’ve been missing. No wonder people get married. I can’t believe what a stupid head I’ve been. Wait till I tell Dad. He has been so worried about me. Nah, he’ll want to teach me about that protection stuff. Alice and I aren’t ready for that yet. We want to take things slow, at least I do. We haven’t even kissed yet. I should ask Alice what her timetable is on kissing. Her opinion is very important to me. I want to be sure I please her. I never cared about making someone else happy before. If this is what it feels like to care for someone I’m all for this scenario. It actually does make you feel better — this giving pleasure stuff. It pays to believe in your own words. By the way I know the good Lord is looking out for me because Alice is nothing like my mother. She never nags me and when she looks in my eyes it’s with love in her heart. We share deep thoughts together. It is truly wonderful. Life is wonderful. I can’t believe how happy I am. I have been looking in the mirror lately and I don’t like what I see. First of all I have three damn pimples replete with whiteheads on my forehead and one big one right under my nose. It’s disgusting. Secondly, I am starting to get this red stubble like hair growing on my face and coming right through my freckles. I look ridiculous. My cloths are really grungy: black frayed tee shirts, worn out jeans, and a western cowboy belt. I look like a throwback to Howdy Doody. The worst is my red hair. It seems to go in all directions at the same time. I don’t know how Alice puts up with me. She hasn’t said anything, but I know she cares. I need a makeover. “Mom, can I talk to you? I think I need some new cloths. The other kids in my new school don’t dress like this. I need some real pants, shirts with sleeves and buttons on them, a pair of loafers, and a new narrow, natural leather belt. Can you take me shopping?” Anne Wilbert was thrilled. She was pleased the new school was having a positive effect on Johnny and that he was becoming aware of his surroundings. She said, “I am happy to take you shopping if you promise to throw those dungarees out. They have reached a point where I think they can stand up by themselves. We’ll go shopping after school today.” “One other thing Mom. Do you think the drug store has something to help me get rid of these pimples? It’s embarrassing.” “I’m sure they do Johnny, we’ll stop by and ask Mr. Katz at the drug store on the way to the Gap.” “The Gap, I was thinking more in terms of Banana Republic Mom.” “That’s a little too old for you Johnny. Let’s start with the Gap.” “OK, but I want real pants — no more dungarees.” That’s good old Mom, always trying to keep me from growing up. To bad Mom, I am going to do it anyway. “Dad, can I talk to you in the bathroom? No, nothing is wrong. I just wanted your opinion on whether I have to start shaving yet, and if so what do I do for a razor?” “What do you mean once I start I will have to do it everyday? I was planning on once a week.” “It doesn’t work like that? This is the pits. Oh okay, can you get me a razor, blades and shaving cream?” “Thanks Dad, this growing up thing is hell.” “So Alice, what do you think of the new me?” “I really like it Johnny. You look great. What happened to your face?” “I cut myself shaving. It’s no big deal. Listen Alice I wanted to ask your opinion on something. We have been going together for almost two weeks now, and I wondered when you think it would be appropriate for us to kiss?” “Right now would be fine Johnny.” And so it began. We kissed and entered each other’s mouths and mixed juices and saliva, and only occasionally got caught on invisible braces. It was wonderful. It was the beginning of a whole new way of life. It awakened in me a depth of passion I didn’t know I possessed. You know the funny part. I didn’t have to say oops once. I guess my clumsy stage is coming to an end, at least with Alice it is I hope. “Watch out world, Johnny Oops is growing up and there is no oops about it.” ***** To read more about the novel Johnny Oops, please go to johnnyoops.blogspot.com
One issue that creeps up often when writing articles is whether you should use humor in them. While this might seem like a good move, the answer is not entirely clear. Humor and Writing Your Articles Personally, I find that articles that offer humorous twists are better than those that do not. Obviously, this view only applies to situations where the subject matter allows for such a writing strategy. An article about drunk driving is probably not a good piece to insert your own brand of humor. Nonetheless, is it wise to insert humor into your writing style? There are many reasons why you should insert humor into your articles. It makes your article stand out since few writers take this approach. To be blunt, most articles found on the web today are fairly bland. If you can throw in a humorous tone to yours, most publishers are going to react positively and pick up the piece. This, of course, leads to more exposure for you. Articles with a humorous tone also tend to indirectly convey another positive aspect. Unless you are simply telling jokes, the writing will also convey a more personalized style. Humor is a personal taste, so yours will convey an article that gives the audience a feeling you know the subject matter and have something credible to say. Again, this is a positive development. On the other side of the coin, there is a rather large risk to the humor approach. What is funny and not funny is a matter of taste. Many serious drama actors have said that trying to act in a comedy role is far more difficult than any other type of film. The same goes for writing. While you might be rolling on the floor laughing at your article, the audience for your piece may not. There is really no way to minimize this risk. Humor is a personal taste, so you will just have to risk it. Should you try to write articles with humor in them? It cannot hurt, but I suggest it be done only so often. Halstatt Pires is with Marketing Titan - providing article marketing services.
Online articles may be the single best way to get traffic to your web site. Writing articles and submitting them to free article directories is certainly one of the least expensive ways. To make it work, though, you have to be persuasive. Maybe you wonder what persuasive writing has to do with articles. You’re not exactly selling something with an informative article, are you? Actually, you are. First, you have to persuade the reader to keep reading until he gets to your link at the bottom. Then you have to give the reader a reason to click through to your site. Use the following tips to get more traffic by writing persuasively. Persuasive Online Articles 1. Keyword optimized headlines. “How Much Can You Make This Year?” will get more readers than “Make More Money,” but only if people find the article first. “Get Rich Writing Simple Articles,” might have been a more attention grabbing headline, but I used “Online Articles” because that is a keyword phrase that people are actually searching. Of course, if you can use good keywords AND eye-catching headlines, it is even better. Another way to have the best of both, is to write the article twice. Firt write it with a good keyword-optimized title, and then re-write it and submit it again with a more catchy title. Paint a picture in seven words or less, if you can. “A Thousand Dollars Fell Off My Table,” might lure them in. Titles with,”10 Ways To…” or “Avoid These Six Mistakes…” or “How To…” in them, are popular too. 2. The article description. Many article directories require a description. This lets the reader know what the article is about, and hopefully convinces them to read it. Hinting at things and leaving the reader wanting more can help: “If you’re making these errors, you’re losing money every day. Learn to avoid the most common optimization mistakes.” 3. The article body. You should write in your natural style, or, if you haven’t yet developed one, stick to easy “top 10″ types of articles. Keep paragraphs short, or readers will lose interest. Hinting at incompleteness can also help to get readers to visit your site. Instaed of, “Here’s how to write articles.” Say, “Here are a few of the techniques I use to easily write new articles.” You want them looking for the other techniques - on your site. 4. Use subtitles. The use of subtitles and headings breaks up an article, making it easier to read. Subtitles also help to optimize an article for search engines, if they contain good keywords. You’ll notice I often use subtitles, like the one coming up… Online Articles - The Resource Box You write online articles to get traffic, which you get from the link in the author’s resource box - if the reader clicks on it. Invite them to do so, and never just put your name, acheievements, and a link. At the very least say “To learn more, visit…” or something similar. My most successful resource box is for my real estate site. It reads, “Steve Gillman has invested in real estate for years. To get a free real estate investing course, and see a photo of a beautiful house he and his wife bought for $17,500, visit .HousesUnderFiftyThousand.com” The resource box is what online articles are all about. Below, you’ll find an another one that has worked well for me. Steve Gillman didn’t even know what HTML was when he registered his first domain name. Soon afterwards, he was making a good living online. To learn how you can do the same, visit .TenMoney.com
Author: T. Wignesan Binding: Paperback (pp: 214) ISBN: 978-81-8253-104-8 Availability: In Stock (Ships within 1 to 2 days) Publisher: Cyberwit.net Pub. Date: 2008 Condition: New Description: What is Poietics? The subject of “poietics” (la poïétique in French), with its origins in the Greek word poïein (“to make with the intellect”), deals with the science and/or the art or philosophy of creation. To French academics working in the field, the subject has variously meant one thing as a definition and another as a programme of research - from Valery’s probes into the making of a poem to Passeron’s involvement with the creator’s relations with the objet d’art during the creative act. In this book, the author attempts to lay the foundation either for the formulation of a theory or, contrariwise, for the impossibility at arriving at any such formulaic circumscription on poietics. His “Disquisitions on Poietics” serves as a theoretical inquiry into the subject at large without, however, limiting itself to the fine arts. The author adopts an open-ended approach to the concept of creation. To him, the preparation of an elaborate dish in the kitchen is as worthy of attention as the Big Bang itself. As for tools, he does not exclude the methodology of experimentation in the laboratory or the theoretical calculations and observations of the exact sciences as perfectly valid means by which to unravel the mysteries of creation. The author “created” and edited the first academic bi-lingual journal on the subject: The Journal of Comparative Poietics/Revue de Poïétique Comparée in 1989, and in which appeared articles by Henri Morier, René Passeron, Eric Mottram, José Augusto Seabra, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Germaine Prudhommeau, Andrew Greig, Clive Bush, and T.Wignesan.
Knowing how to write a news article is one thing. How to benefit financially from that knowledge is another. For editors, a freelance journalist can be an irritant and a savior all at once. They can be bothersome when repeatedly proposing story ideas at busy deadline times but they can also rescue a news desk that may be short of staff on any particular day. The key to freelance journalism is to keep plugging away with quality work so that the editor will always have time for you. To get a foot in the door of your local newspaper, a freelancer should know four things
Organization should have a good “complaints policy” to recover its customer’s confidence. It should accept complaints from customers as gift and should be processed effectively and immediately. With effective processing of complaint, a negative situation can be turned into positive one. Customer complaint could be a verbal or a written complaint. In case of written complaint, organization should have a policy that employee should send a prompt reply within two days and satisfactory reply within two weeks of receiving the complaint from the customer. When you receive a written compliant, you should send a personal letter to the customer, containing points such as thank you for the complaint, the customer is important to you and your business or organization, why the complain is appreciated, an apology, assurance of satisfactory action and a time frame by which customer will get suitable or satisfactory reply. Your reply should look like a personal letter to customer, so avoid standard letters. Write a letter, which is easy to read and understand, avoiding excessive use of technical terms & terminologies. A prompt reply can help you to gain customer’s confidence and trust to some extent. However, if you want customer to remain with the organization and should not shift to your competitor brands, you should send a satisfactory reply within two weeks. Agree with the customer & admit that he is right. Avoid use of sentences such as, we rarely receive such kind of complaints or you have started using the product without reading the instructions. Always proofread your letters before sending it. You can use business writing software program with text enrichment feature for proofreading. Text enrichment enhances the simple sentence into more professional and sophisticated one Try to exceed customer’s expectations. A complaining customer can become a loyal customer with better than expected treatment. So, try to give the customer a bit more than his expectation or demand, if reasonable. However, if customer demands and expectations are unreasonable, refuse them, but without showing any anger or bitterness. Follow up with your customers to make sure that he is satisfied. For information on Business English writing software please visit .truevalue4money.com Author is a freelance writer. For details on grammar checker and software to enrich your English writing, please visit English writing software website.
One of the best things that you can do to promote your blog is to write articles for monster online content directories. This may seem like a somewhat backwards model, I mean, how do you get something from nothing? But the basic principle is pretty sound. While you aren’t directly getting paid for this work, you are receiving tons of free PR for your site, because every article that you write has your URL attached to it. You are trading your talent for all those links. What’s better, many sites use this content to supplement their own content, and thus will give you more free advertising! I’ll be honest with you. This whole internet blogging thing is new to me, and I only consider myself an average writer. I’m not going to win a Pulitzer, and I don’t seriously expect to make a million dollars, despite what my tagline says. But I am smart, and ok, I’m a little desperate too. As Steve Pavlina says on his blog: The tagline for this site is “Personal Development for Smart People.” And unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your outlook), smart people are a minority on this planet. So while most people can’t make a living this way, I would say that most smart people can. Begin by heading over to Article Submitter. They have an absolutely free service (a download) that will let you submit your articles to over 500 web sites. Basically, you sign up for the content directories listed in their program, enter your name and password into their software program, and set up your article to send it off. Although you do each submission manually, it’s a lot more reliable (and a lot less headache) to go through and do it this way. A word to the warning, though: set yourself up another Gmail account because you are going to receive a LOT of emails. After you’ve set yourself up all those accounts (that’s the only hard work, really), start getting like a busy bee and make an article inside the program. My suggestion is that you start a blog - like I did here at 5 Star Blog! - and write one article per week. Make sure you do a bit of research on your blog topic, because the point is to become self-sufficient, and you’ll need to pick a topic that appeals to a massive amount of people. I’m not saying that you should make it your primary focus - remember, I said only one article per week - but do make it a popular topic. Very shortly you should see some results. Be sure to let me know what you think of my idea, and how it has worked out for you! Maureen runs 5 Star Dreams, Korean Diary, 5 Star Blog, and The Adventures of Goggle Girl.
Before thinking about topics for your dissertation project, make sure you are clear in your own mind about what a dissertation really is. You are well-known with the principles of essay writing which is the most common form of academic writing, but a dissertation is surely differ from a standard essay. So how do you choose a dissertation topic for your writing project in the first place? You will probably already have an idea about the kind of topic or subject that appeals to you. Finding a good dissertation topic is a bit like a treasure hunt
Those of you reading this that run your own online businesses know that the aim of the game is traffic - qualified, targeted traffic - and lots of it. There are a number of ways to drive qualified traffic to your site - some of it costs you money, some of it costs you time. Some of it costs you both and doesn’t work. This article is all about the best form of free advertising - writing articles. How can writing articles give you free advertising? As you probably know, there are hundreds of thousands of people publishing an ezine (electronic newsletter) on a regular basis. For some of these people, publishing the ezine is the central plank of their business - they set out to create a business involving, primarily, the publishing of the ezine. Others, however, publish the ezine only as an adjunct to their website - a way to get their site in front of their ezine subscribers in the hope that this will generate repeat traffic. Both types of ezine publishers have one thing in common. The need for great content. If you’ve spent much time online you’ll no doubt have signed up for more than your fair share of free ezines. You’ll have come across some that are really good, some that are OK and some that are nothing short of woeful, with content that looks like the publisher has picked up the first piece of regurgitated whatever he happened to come across today to fill up the space between the ads for his numerous affiliate programs. Your site may include links to your affiliate programs. After all, that’s how you make money, right? But rather than go the road of the ezine publisher who thinks she can serve up any old porridge to her subscriber base and they’ll eat it up, spend the same time writing just one good article on a subject matter relevant to your target market and invite publishers of ezines with complementary subject matter to publish that article, together with your resource box at the end (the four or five line blurb you see at the end of articles that give a little information about the author and the author’s website together with a link to the site). Now, here’s the important point if you expect others to publish your work. Your ad is your resource box; it is NOT your article. Your article is content. Your article should not mention your product, your site or anything related to it. Your article must stand alone as an independently useful piece of work (and when I say useful, I mean it must be useful to the READER, not the author!). Don’t insult your readers’ intelligence by dressing up an ad as an article. They’re not stupid - they’ll see through it and you immediately, they’ll put you on their blacklist for insulting their intelligence and no publisher worth their salt will run your articles anyway. The whole purpose of writing the article is to make it such a worthwhile piece of work that many publishers will want to put it in front of their subscribers. Get a good article published in an ezine with 10,000 subscribers and see what that does for your traffic when hundreds of those subscribers click on the link to your site that you’ve included in your resource box. Beginning to see how this works? And the best thing of all is that it only costs you time - maybe an hour, two top to write a decent article. Commit to writing one a week and getting them published and you’ll have a nice little traffic flow going, believe me (AND, if you make sure that you write about subject matter relevant to your site, that traffic will ALSO be targeted, qualified traffic - so much the better). OK, so now you can see the power of writing articles as a method of generating traffic to your website. How the heck do you find other people to publish your work? Thanks to the fact that so many publishers out there don’t have the time or (so they believe) ability to write their own articles, or are looking for articles to supplement their own, you have a ready-made market of thousands of publishers who are always on the lookout for quality content to present to their readers. You just have to find them. Here’s a partial list to get you started: When submitting your articles to the above websites, be sensitive to the types of articles the site is looking for. Some accept articles on any subject under the sun; others are looking for articles on specific subjects such as internet marketing, for example. Over time, you will be able to add to this list. If submitting to individual ezine publishers, don’t be surprised or offended if you don’t receive a response. Most ezine publishers of any size receive dozens of article submissions a day. Time normally doesn’t permit a response to each submission. Also, try and find out from the publisher whether they even accept article submissions. Many don’t (me, for example). I receive many article submissions a day which just get deleted unread. The point is, just work up your own list, write articles consistently and submit consistently. Over time, you’ll develop your own style of writing and attract a following. Although it may be slow to start, you’ll start getting a trickle of new traffic from people who have come across your article somewhere, some place and were interested enough to click on the link in your resource box. Over time, that trickle will become a stream, then a river, and then a flood. For more useful tips & hints, please browse for more information at our website: - .instant-marketing-articles.com .articlemarketing.reprintarticlesite.com
