Abdulrahman Mohammed Bindamnan
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Keep It Short
- A Practical Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
- De: Charles Euchner
- Narrado por: Steve White
- Duración: 3 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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This book really makes you want to write! Whether you are starting your first novel or blogging up a storm, this book will make you a better communicator in the 21st century, the Age of Brevity and the Internet. If you can keep your writing brief and concise, you can save countless hours of frustration - for yourself and your readers. It's hard at first, but by mastering a few simple "tricks of the trade," you will not only keep it short, you will also discover new ideas, find new angles, and write with more zip. This short guide shows the way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It helps me to write better in English.
- De Abdulrahman Mohammed Bindamnan en 09-20-21
- Keep It Short
- A Practical Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
- De: Charles Euchner
- Narrado por: Steve White
It helps me to write better in English.
Revisado: 09-20-21
Charles Euchner offers a comprehensive system for mastery for both novice and experienced writers. As a non-native English speaker, I greatly benefited from “The Elements of Writing.” Euchner’s program, based on cutting-edge research on neuroscience and learning, helps your brain to work for — not against — you.
I was born and raised in Yemen and spoke Arabic most of my life; in 2016, I came to the U.S. to pursue post-secondary education. My English was severely limited. I had plenty of good ideas but struggled to express them in English. Reading “The Elements of Writing” was a revelation.
I found the principles of “start strong, finish strong” especially useful. As studies show, readers pay the most attention to the beginnings and endings of sentences and paragraphs. Euchner’s “Landscape View” technique helps you take advantage of this reality by focusing on what matters — on sentences and their lengths, variety, beginnings, and endings.
Euchner treats writing as a storytelling enterprise and provides tools so we can tell stories effectively. “Every element of your writing should take readers from one place to another,” he writes. “Act as a friendly, reliable, and sometimes surprising guide.” Page by page, Euchner shows how to do that.
Because everyone recommends it, I read “The Elements of Style,” by William Strunk and E.B. White, but it did not answer my questions. By serendipity, I found this book, which is more helpful because it penetrates all of the fundamental elements of writing.
I have studied at English Intensive Programs in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the U.S. (at the University of Miami and the University of Pennsylvania). Euchner’s approach helped me more than all of these programs — combined — because it gets at the bottom line of storytelling, writing, and editing.
Whether you grew up speaking English or are a non-native English speaker, Charles Euchner’s writing system will help. I now skim my copy of “The Elements of Writing” before writing: It helps me to write better in English; I believe it can help you too.
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If You Should Fail
- A Book of Solace
- De: Joe Moran
- Narrado por: Ned Porteous
- Duración: 5 h y 28 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Do you ever feel like a failure? Enter widely acclaimed observer of daily life Professor Joe Moran, not to tell you that everything will be all right in the end, but to reassure you that failure is an occupational hazard of being human. It's the small print in life's terms and conditions. Covering everything from examination dreams to fourth-placed Olympians, If You Should Fail is about how modern life, in a world of self-advertised success, makes us feel like failures, frauds and imposters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not a failure at all
- De Abdulrahman Mohammed Bindamnan en 03-25-21
- If You Should Fail
- A Book of Solace
- De: Joe Moran
- Narrado por: Ned Porteous
Not a failure at all
Revisado: 03-25-21
Joe Moran is my new favorite author whose words awaken my heart and soul. He never failed me as a reader. Highly recommend this book.
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