“What Font Should I use?” (Dr Mark Womack)

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Extract from Dr.Mark Womack 

What Font Should I Use?

“The Modern Language Association (MLA) provides explicit, specific recommendations for the margins and spacing of academic papers. (See: Document Format.) But their advice on font selection is less precise: “Always choose an easily readable typeface (e.g. Times New Roman) in which the regular style contrasts clearly with the italic, and set it to a standard size (e.g. 12 point)” (MLA Handbook, 7th ed., §4.2).

So which fonts are “easily readable” and have “clearly” contrasting italics? And what exactly is a “standard” size?

For academic papers, an “easily readable typeface” means a serif font, and a “standard” type size is between 10 and 12 point.

Use A Serif Font

Serifs are the tiny strokes at the end of a letter’s main strokes. Serif fonts have these extra strokes; sans serif fonts do not. (Sans is French for “without.”) Serif fonts also vary the thickness of the letter strokes more than sans serifs, which have more uniform lines.” (…) 

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Continue reading here:

Writing Handbook Style

http://drmarkwomack.com/a-writing-handbook/style/typography/

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“The Ugly Duckling” (Hans Christian Andersen) + [EXTRA]

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The Ugly Duckling tells the story of an exile.

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The 7 papers

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“A Clockwork Orange” (Anthony Burgess)

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[A Clockwork Orange, Dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1971]

I have been reading English Literature, a handbook written by Anthony Burgess. I liked it so much that I wanted to read something else. Then, I tried the difficult novel A Clockwork Orange. I had seen the film on TV (Stanley Kubrick, 1971 ) which I hated. I insist on this point: the novel is a nightmare of violence and cruelty. Despite the horrible story inside the novel, I thought I had to try it. I started reading the novel to discover a kind of teenager´s jargon, the nasdat. It seemed impossible to understand a word unless you had the appropriate glossary of the new language. I found out the one provided by Sparknotes.com. I could enjoy the reading of it. This language is hybrid, that is, a mixture of Russian, the funny rhyming Cockney slang and Burgess´ s imagination.

By the way, I read the novel in a kindle book. 

 

Have a look at the glossary prepared by SparkNotes.com

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8 ways to be constantly improving (ENG)

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Dandies on the net

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Lord Byron, poet

Maybe I am wrong, but for me the first dandy was Lord Byron. Anyway, the dandyism boast about elegance and good taste. If I had to name two dandies, I would say Oscar Wilde too.

This is the website on dandyism I came across the other day

http://www.dandyism.net

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The funny rules on writing who William Safire wrote

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[William Safire, journalist]

There are several version of these rules. I keep this one. However, I have just found out a website with extra information.

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William Safire´s Rules of Writing

(extract)

1. Do not put statements in the negative form. Always write positive statements. The positive is stronger than the negative.
2. And don’t start sentences with a conjunction. Do not start sentences with a conjunction. Conjunctions serve to connect words, phrases, clauses, and sentences, not to start them.
3. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Reread and edit your work to avoid repetition. Enough said.
4. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Never use a long word when a small one will do. Using a thesaurus and carefully selecting new vocabulary words can help improve your writing. In some sentences, however, simple is best.
5. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. (…)

Read on the rules here:

https://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/william-safire-tips-on-writing/

( edited by Kathy Temean)

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History of American Journalism, a rich website by Rick Musser

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History of American Journalism

Rick Musser (historyjournalism.ku.edu)

Introduction-

“The 1960s was marked by clashes of ideologies. In the South, blacks fought a stubborn white establishment for the rights they were owed under the Constitution.

Abroad, the United States fought a multi-front battle against the spread Communism. On college campuses across the country, a new generation of Americans rejected the post-WWII, conservative values of their parents.

And even within the Civil Rights movement, the non-violent activists under Martin Luther King, Jr., butted heads with the militant followers of Malcolm X. The result was a decade mired in turbulence — but also one that brought important changes.”

Read on here:

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[Professor Emeritus Rick Musser]
University of Kansas, School of Journalism & Mass Communications, 1976-2008

Original site designed May 2003 by graduate students Heather Attig and Tony Esparza

-More information on the website-

Cómo leer más y mejor

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[Samuel Beckett, escritor]

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El método para leer tres veces más rápido, inventado por un profesor de Princeton

E. ZAMORANO

EL CONFIDENCIAL; 09/04/2018

Sé un Usain Bolt de la lectura con este método. Es muy fácil y no lleva nada de tiempo

“¿Cómo crees que podría cambiar tu vida si tu velocidad lectora aumentara en un 300%? Desde las tediosas facturas hasta el ladrillo que llevas leyendo más de un mes y no consigues acabar, leer tendrá unas repercusiones notables en tu vida cotidiana y tiempo de ocio. No esperes más a averiguarlo, si estás deseoso de poner a prueba tu mente y mejorar tu comprensión y rapidez lectora, este es tú método. El conocido como ‘Proyecto PX’ diseñado por Tim Ferriss, profesor de la Universidad de Princeton y publicado en ‘Medium’, promete grandes resultados.” (…)

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Uno de los mejores relatos cortos que he leído en mi vida fue escrito por Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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El curioso caso de Benjamin Button, Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Extracto de la versión original

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

written by

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anesthetic air of a hos- pital, preferably a fashionable one. So young Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were fifty years ahead of style when they decided, one day in the sum- mer of 1860, that their first baby should be born in a hospital. Whether this anachronism had any bearing upon the astonishing history I am about to set down will never be known.
I shall tell you what occurred, and let you judge for yourself.” (…)

El anuncio de Mercedes Clase C [@MercedesBenz] lo dio a conocer a muchos de los que estaban viendo la televisión un día cualquiera. Entre ellos, yo me quedé maravillado y quise leer la historia de Benjamin Button.

Anuncio de Mercedes Clase C

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