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According to priceonomics.com the College Board recently estimated that the average student spends upwards of $1,200 per year on textbooks. (This figure is much higher for students at for-profit colleges and trade schools.) Between 2002 and 2013, the price of college textbooks rose 82 percent — nearly three times the rate of inflation, according to a recent study by the Government Accountability Office. That is a lot of money for a college student but what makes it even a hard spent money is you…

Many people have used fake names for a variety of reasons but one of the oldest reasons was a method used by authors to publish writing. A alternate name someone uses as an author is often called a “pen name”, an alias or a pseudonym. Authors use pen names so they can be published because for many possible reasons they wouldn’t be published under their own names. Many famous authors have used pen names because they wanted to be taken seriously or wanted to protect their name. For some people…

that traditional and direct publishers provide. Explaining that publishing companies are best at assisting new writers with marketing, Camacho stated, “The direct-published author still misses out on the promotional efforts offered by the traditional publisher” (Camacho 330). By bringing this to the reader’s attention, he ensures they understand this situation. Camacho proceeded to illustrate this point by adding, “In direct publishing, authors rarely benefit from the book tours, book…

‘Everyday I Write the Book’ may be among his best-loved songs, but for singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, it isn't every day that he gets to publish a book which tells his life story. But that's what happened yesterday when his first official autobiography hit the shelves. ‘Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink’ will reflect the musicians five-decade long career including many stories about his renowned co-writers and co-conspirators. There will also be a variety of images taken from Elvis’s…

Janice Schakowsky was born Janice Danoff on May 26th, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois. The second child of Jewish immigrants, Irwin and Tillie Danoff, Jan graduated from the University of Illinois in 1965 with a Bachelor of Science in elementary education. One day while food shopping in Evanston, Schakowsky noticed the absence of a “freshness date” on cottage cheese containers. She took steps to rectify the situation and with friends organized a nationwide campaign, this campaign led to food…

She added to it until her passing, maybe upwards of 200 articles on fiction, instruction, sermons, travelogues, and youngsters' books. Johnson was a decent man. He helped Wollstonecraft discover lodgings. He propelled her cash when required. He managed her lenders. He helped her adapt to her dad's disordered circumstance and smoothed her episodes of gloom. Wollstonecraft met more radicals who went by Johnson, including William Blake, Swiss painter Henry Fuseli, and Johnson's distributed…

Revising focuses on the global issues of the paper by paragraph, and sections by revising the organization, style/tone, and its development. During the revision phrase the reader asks themselves questions like the following: Is the argument clear? Does my ideas flow? Are my quality of my evidence good? In addition, eliminating unnecessary sentences, paragraphs and giving advice to extend paragraphs are also part of the revision process. On the other hand, editing focuses on the local issues in…

A little background on Marshall Poe. “Marshall Tillbrook Poe is an American historian, writer, editor and founder of the New Books Network, an online collection of podcast interviews with a wide range of non-fiction authors.” Wikipedia is a very well known site to be an encyclopedia. Students constantly question why Wikipedia is a bad source and teachers will often fail students for using Wikipedia as a source for information, teachers try to have students understand that Wikipedia is not a…

My article talks about a case that is currently going on right now. The case deals with an online website called Spokeo and a man named Thomas Robins. In the article it states that Spokeo.com made a fake online profile about Thomas Robins with false information about him. Justice Stephen G. Breyer Explained that the profile had a picture of the wrong person, it said that he was in his 50’s, that he is married, is employed in a professional or technical field, has a graduate degree, and that his…

Writing, no matter the subject, timeline, or form, involves a process of some sorts. The writing process can differ in the steps, methods, and style. Some authors may prefer to revise as they write while others prefer to write a draft and edit a final version. Also, other writers may choose to write an outline and while others may choose to organize their thoughts with a picture. Donald M. Murry’s “The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscript,” Peter Elbow’s “Desperation Writing,” and Kurt…