Reader's Digest Use the Right Word

Reader's Digest Use the Right Word
Author: Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa
Publisher:
Total Pages: 744
Release: 1968
Genre: English language
ISBN:

Here is a book that will make a place for itself next to your dictionary - an indispensable tool whenever you have trouble finding the right word to help express an idea clearly and exactly. It will stimulate an interest in language for its own sake, amusing the reader as it informs, suggesting that the mastery of words can be as pleasurable as it is profitable.

Reader's Digest Use Your Words

Reader's Digest Use Your Words
Author: Reader's Digest
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2019-02-05
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 162145424X

Want to feel smarter? Want to have the perfect quip at the tip of your tongue? Use Your Words combines Word Power Quizzes and Quotable Quotes from Reader's Digest, Amercia's Most Popular Magazine so you can do just that! Use Your Words is part word quiz book and part quote book, combined together in themed sections. It will be a combination of 2 of our most popular columns in Reader’s Digest Magazine—Word Power and Quotable Quotes. Quotable Quotes, as it appears today, first ran in January 1934. It was proceeded by similar quote columns, including Remarkable Remarks, which ran in the first ever issue of Reader's Digest in February 1922, and Significant Sayings, which ran in June 1922. These first columns featured the great minds of the day, including Herbert Hoover (before he became president), Lady Astor, and John D. Rockefeller. The quotes were, and continue to be, collected from a variety of books, speeches, journals, and articles. We've quoted both living and dead people. The column hasn't changed much, except for the art. It began as a one-page list of quotes and continues to be a one-page list of quotes. Quotable Quotes is second to Laughter the Best Medicine in column popularity. Word Power first ran in January 1945—January 2020 will mark 75 years. Word Power's creator, Wilfred Funk, was a poet and lexicographer—his family was the “Funk” of the reference publisher Funk & Wagnalls. He presented his quiz idea to Dewitt Wallace in 1944. Wilfred's son Peter Funk wrote the column from the 1960s to the 1990s. Current writers are a married couple who are well-known in the crossword/puzzle world: https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/wordgame/crbio.htm The column hasn’t changed much—it has 15 words now instead of 20. It has themed columns (car words, Italian words) rather than words based on RD. It has a sidebar that goes in-depth on something related to the theme. Word Power is our 3rd most popular column in the magazine.

The Writer's Guide to Wattpad

The Writer's Guide to Wattpad
Author: Benjamin Sobieck
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-10-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440352976

Engage with the Next Generation of Writers! Wattpad is an online storytelling community where users can post their writing, such as articles, stories, novels, fan fiction, and poems. This platform offers writers the chance to connect directly with readers, fans, and story enthusiasts. With the ability to release stories and chapters one at a time, authors can receive continual encouragement and real-time feedback on their work. The Wattpad staff supports successful writers through their Stars program, which provides them opportunities to work with successful brands, publish to print, connect to film and television industries, and more. The potential of Wattpad for writers is limitless, and, for the first-time ever, the staff, writers, and stars of Wattpad have created the guide to help you launch and sustain a successful writing career through this platform. In The Writer's Guide to Wattpad, you'll learn how to: • Get started using Wattpad, prepare your writing to be published, and develop a unique cover design. • Interact with readers, use multimedia to enhance and tell stories, and leverage social media to create a stronger platform. • Attract the attention of an agent or publisher and sell copies of your work elsewhere. • Tap into the brand of Wattpad to understand their Stars Program, brand campaigns, and what success looks like. Written to be accessible to beginners and veterans alike, The Writer's Guide to Wattpad is your essential companion to navigating the Wattpad platform and brand, and leveraging your writing to millions of users worldwide.

Don Quixote, U. S. A.

Don Quixote, U. S. A.
Author: Richard Powell
Publisher: Bantam Books
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1966
Genre: Don Quixote (Fictitious character)
ISBN:

Insignificant Peace Corps man, sent to promote banana culture on a Caribbean island, rises to great heights of public favor despite being trapped between two conflicting factions.

How to Write and Speak Better

How to Write and Speak Better
Author: John Ellison Kahn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 655
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780276420306

A practical guide to using the English language more effectively