From the daily archives: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
I have to write a 10 page paper about anything related to literature and i love pulp fiction and i thought if i could find a book that related to it that would work, but im having a hard time finding one.
Any ideas??
Thanks
Please only serious answers 
This test will show you powerful lyric writing tips to use song stability to your advantage. This includes writing the music and lyric content.
Think about what your intention is in your songs. Do you want a stable or unstable song and how and where are you building and releasing tension.
Normally you want to match the stability of the music and the words content message. However you don’t have to, It will change the effect on the listener.
Look at how complex chord progressions are in tunes. Anything that isn’t a major chord in the key it’s written in will increase tension. Minor, diminished and augmented chords do this.
The further the chord is away from the solid feeling of the home key, the more tension it builds. Do the tension test that’s on my website Great Song Writing or read my article on it.
Here’s the test and your assignment. Does the chord or lyric leave you feeling like you’re just hanging from a cliff.
Does it leave you wondering what is going to happen next or feeling like you are leaning forward in anticipation? Does the chord or lyric make you feel settled or relaxed? Is it frantic or relaxing?
The next time you go to the movies or watch TV pay attention to the music in happy and suspense scenes. Notice the tension and how stable the scenes feel.
Ask yourself what the intent of the content of the scene is? Does it match the music? Notice what the effect of the combination is where the content and stability are matched.
The second part of the fun is to purposely write a song that gives mixed messages. Take the instability between the songs lyrics content and music to an extreme.
Notice how it effects your creation and the message that gets delivered. Don’t forget to play with instability in the lyrics and the music.
Both lyrics and music can have powerful affects on the listener. The term for music and lyrics fitting perfectly together is prosody.
However mastering having both working together at once and delivering stable or unstable dynamics can really drive the emotional content home.
Lyric and music stability testing will help your understand how to craft your songs to help get the emotional reaction you want from your listener.
When you match your intension with the music and lyrics, it has a far greater emotional impact on your listeners.
John Cowell – His fresh approach to songwriting will have you saying “Ah-Ha” over and over again. To get simple and terrific ideas on how to write great songs visit Great SongWriting.com. Build your dream web site and web business like John did at Site Build It.
I have heard people are working on “smart” homes, invisibility cloaks and time traveling. These all used to be displayed as science fiction in literature/media. However, these will one day be science fact. (For example: Traveling to the moon was known as science fiction just 2 centuries ago. But now it is science fact.) PLEASE HELP! I NEED IT FOR MY EXIT PROJECT! I will really appreciate it!
Youâ??ve been diligent about locking away your most sensitive documents in the filing cabinet each night, and encrypting all of your electronic files with passwords, but what about the information that is shared among employees on a daily basis?
Do you have a non-disclosure agreement in place? When do you need one? A non-disclosure agreement governs the relationship between you and any existing or potential business associates or employees. It is typically recommended that this type of agreement is used prior to entering into any negotiations, interviews or other situations in which confidential information or materials are exchanged.
The safeguards of a non-disclosure agreement
A non-disclosure agreement clearly defines conditions, between you and a business associate, for exchanging and using confidential information and materials. It also requires that parties involved keep sensitive information confidential, outlines resolutions for agreement violations, and calls for arbitration in the event a dispute regarding violations arises.
The non-disclosure agreement is essential for keeping information protected, and should be implemented anytime confidentiality is imperative. These agreements are most suitable in situations in which information sharing between two parties is necessary, but it needs to be kept confidential from the general public. The number of scenarios in which a non-disclosure agreement can serve as a vital tool, varies widely. One instance is when network solutions or software is provided, or intellectual property is shared. In this case there are specific non-disclosure contracts for IT consultants. For those working in the information technology field, these agreements are necessary for nearly any business relationship.
What should the agreement contain?
Generally, most non-disclosure agreements should include information about the parties involved, any clauses that might be incorporated, and what information should be kept confidential. If either party should break the agreement, legal actions can be taken. The purpose of the non-disclosure agreement, though, should be to avoid litigation. If both parties follow the non-disclosure agreement, things will run smoothly and the agreement will serve its purpose. Agreements, and provisions within the agreements, will vary based on the industry, the persons involved and the information that is to remain confidential. Non-disclosure contracts for IT consultants can differ significantly from agreements written for financial institutions. Some provisions might include:
* Confidential Material
* Use and Treatment of Confidential Material
* Return of Confidential Material
* Remedies
* Employee Solicitation and/or Hiring
* Arbitration and Attorneys’ Fees
* Severability
* Waiver and Modification
To better understand what agreements should contain, review non-disclosure agreement samples. This will help you determine what you might need to include in your contract.
Before sharing information contained within unpublished patent applications, financial statements, or business strategies, you should be sure a non-disclosure agreement has been agreed upon and signed by all parties involved. This will provide legal safeguard on all confidential information and prevent others from stealing information. To ensure all of the vital components are included within the agreement, review as many non-disclosure agreement samples as you can, and utilize a non-disclosure agreement template produced by a credible company, then have a professional attorney review all of your documents. Taking these steps can save you time and protect you from potentially costly litigations.
Look online for resources
For many entrepreneurs new to navigating the world of small business ownership, paying for an attorney may be out of the question. Online resources are a cost effective and useful way to obtain knowledge on non-disclosure agreements. You can also utilize non-disclosure agreement templates to get your contract in place and be sure it meets industry standards.
About the Author:
James Cochran, founder of Contract Edge, an online provider of templates for employment contracts and web service agreements, is an expert in legal and technical matters. In business for over a decade, his well written contract forms are developed by leading IT lawyers and cover everything from non disclosure agreements to web hosting agreements.
When composing an article for readers online there are some simple writing tips that could help you get the most out of your efforts.
Certain aspects of preparing an article to be read online differ from the more casual off-line approach to writing. Attention needs to be paid to the ‘technical’ and ‘structural’ elements involved in constructing an article for online readers.
Let’s review 4 areas of preparation involved in online article writing and how it may differ from ‘traditional’ offline articles.
INTRIGUING HEADLINE
The headline should jump out at the reader and capture their interest to read further into the article. Whether you’re using humor, shock, or appealing to the reader on some emotional level it needs to make the reader pause.
Online this can be a bit of a challenge due to the reader’s ability in just a nano second to quickly click away. The challenge is compounded further by certain restrictions article directories have in place. Any wording deemed unfit or a misrepresentation of content will prevent your article from even being published online.
Headlines that often work online would take the direction of ‘How to”, “The Greatest”, “The Easiest”, or even a numbered list such as “5 Ways to”.
DON’T USE MISLEADING HEADLINES
Using a headline that inaccurately reflects the article content just to capture attention generally won’t work online. Browsers who open up an article are expecting to view information as indicated in the headline. When this doesn’t happen they quickly, and sometimes irritably, click away. With access to so much information readers will leave without a second thought.
ONLINE ARTICLE FORMATTING
When submitting an article online it is recommended to include a resource box so readers can link back to your site if they choose. The number of words and links you use will face the scrutiny of both the directories and the readers. You’ll need to be concise and convincing in order to get the reader to do what you want them to do.
Most articles will be accompanied by a short summary or abstract that again is monitored by directories. Your abstract is limited to just a few sentences in which you’re convincing readers why they should read your article.
If you’re submitting article to ezines or perhaps publishing them in a newsletter you’ll need to pay attention to the number of characters you use per line. If not done correctly your composition will not appear in a uniformed orderly fashion on the internet.
KEYWORD USAGE
The use of keywords in every aspect of article writing from titles to the body of content down to the abstracts themselves is critical. If your work is not optimized correctly with keywords neither search engines nor readers will every be able to locate your article content.
Keyword placement, accuracy, frequency of and the manner in which they are used are closely monitored by search engines. Keywords are the beacons that attract and guide search engines to your article itself. If this task is not completed correctly your article exposure will suffer.
These writing tips we’ve discussed here should enable you to more effectively plan and prepare your articles for internet reading. The focus here is more on concise content delivery, formatting, and keyword use. This allows your article to be easily found and then viewed online. With the size of the audience the internet makes available to you these additional measures are more than worth it!
TJ Philpott is an author and Internet entrepreneur based out of North Carolina.
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I need some help with this..when you have to study for an english fiction course, how exactly do you prepare for the exams? do you just read the novels, make some notes, and read everything over a few times?
If you’re not doing so already, you may want to consider writing articles about your website’s topic. Writing copyright free articles is a great way to:
Establish your credibility and build your reputation and brand
Establish yourself as an expert in your field
Increase your exposure on the internet
Gain laser targeted traffic to your website
Increase the number of one way links to your website, which should help your website in the search results.
Writing articles about the topic of your website is a fantastic way to demonstrate your expertise and credibility and at the same time allows you to build your reputation and your brand. Submitting your articles to the various free article sites gives your articles the opportunity to be picked up by other webmasters for their websites and newsletters. When your articles get used on these other websites they must be used with the author bio section un-edited. This means that you can generate one way links to your website, which in turn leads to greater exposure and better rankings in the search engines. If the readers of your articles on other sites click through to your site, you gain targeted traffic.
Some Article Writing Tips
To get the greatest benefit from your article writing endeavors, try to keep the following article writing tips in mind:
Try to stay away from turning your article into a sales pitch. Give your readers credit – they will be able to distinguish a sales pitch right away. Once they think they’re just reading another sales pitch they will quickly click away from your article. I can just about guarantee that no one will pick up your sales pitch and use it on their website, unless it’s one of your affiliates.
Don’t include too many hyperlinks within the article body and stick to only one in the author bio section. Most webmasters will not pick up an article, no matter how good it is, if there are too many outgoing links. I would recommend not having any links within the article body but sometimes this is unavoidable.
Which situation would you rather have: 1 article with 1 outgoing link to your website that gets picked up by 1,000 webmasters or 1 article with 10 outgoing links that gets picked up by 10 webmasters?
Check, re-check and then check your article again for typos and grammatical errors. Have someone else proofread it for you before submitting it. Nothing says amateur more than typos and grammatical errors.
Write articles that complement the topic of your website. Don’t write about something totally unrelated to your website. Remember, you want to establish your credibility and expertise. Write about what you know.
When adding that one link back to your site, make sure to include a keyword targeted link back to your site. I’m talking specifically about the words between the opening and closing anchor tags.
When the search engine robots come across this link they will index the anchor text and it will help you with those keywords in the search engines. Do not waste this valuable link by just having your website address as the anchor text unless you have your main keywords in the website address. Try to vary the keywords a little as well when creating this link. There is speculation that having too many “uniform” links to a site may hurt you – just something to keep in mind.
Do not place a copyright notice at the top of your article. This leads to confusion and may cause webmasters to stay away from posting your articles on their website and in their newsletters.
It may be a good idea to write completely new content for your articles. Some writers just copy and paste parts of their websites and put them into articles. This may lead to a “duplicate content” penalty and may end up hurting your search engine results. I would recommend that you should play it safe and come up with totally new content for your articles.
John Michaels is a part-time editor for http://www.ArticleGeek.com. John has developed many websites over the years in many different business areas. He is a professional web developer/designer/architect. ArticleGeek is a free website content resource for publishers and webmasters and a place where authors may submit articles for FREE!
NON VERBAL SKILLS
Prof.Dr.S.Elangovan
Abstract– This paper will enable you to understand what we mean by non-verbal communication, its various types and also some tips to interpret them to enhance your non-verbal communication. Non verbal skills are as important for everyone especially for teachers to make their communication effective ones as verbal communication in our day today life Here I have analyzed various forms of Non-verbal cues and examined their relevance in decoding their suggestions and meanings thereof. For any professional Non verbal skills form essential ingredient for his or her success in the career.
Index Terms: Gestures, Touching.Non verbal skills
I. INTRODUCTION
Lord Shiva adorns himself with the poisonous snake by wearing it around his neck and clads with tiger’s hide. He communicates with his devotees sans words “If you surrender unto me, your fear of poisonous snake, ferocious tiger and other enemies will be wiped out for ever. After all they are under my control” This is a classic example for Non- verbal skills.Non- verbal communication does not use words. Examples Include pictures, company logos, gestures and body language, who sits where at a meeting, how long some keeps a visitor waiting etc[1,2]. All these communicate pleasure or anger friendliness or distance, power and status. We communicate not only through words, but also through means other than words. This is Non-verbal communication. Vibrant voice, immaculate clothing, animated movements firm or limpid hand-shake are some of form of Non-verbal communication. Imagine you are in a Cinema theatre where everyone talks, some people chatting in their cell phones. There was noise everywhere. Suddenly the lights go off and the music stops. The audience members become silent. Because they know the movie is about to start. They understand the Non-verbal language.
II. GESTURES SOMETIMES SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS
Gestures are sign language. Americans sometimes assume that they can depend on gestures to communicate if language fails. The “thumps-up” sign meaning ‘good-work’ is a vulgar insult in Greece. The Circle formed by thumb and first finger means OK in the United States, is obscene in Southern Italy and can mean “you are worth nothing” in France.
As babies we communicated with everybody only through Non-verbal means.
Body Language is one of the essential ingredients for aspiring teachers. The teacher who smiles at students will really make wonders. When an English language teacher teaches inside the clas, he has to establish eye contact with the student. This will speak volumes of his self confidence level. Further his students will feel that the teacher is paying individual attention to them.
Open body positions include leaning forward with uncrossed arms and legs, with arms away from the body and they suggest that people sit in this position are accepting and open to ideas. Defensive positions such as leaning back both hands behind the head, arms legs crossed or close together or hands in pockets indicate people are physically and psychologically uncomfortable. They are defending and shutting other people out. Crossing legs may be sometimes indicative the person who is sitting on a chair which is not of sufficient height. The Japanese value the ability to sit quietly. They may see the US tendency to fidget or shift as an indication of a lack of mental or spiritual balance.
Even in North America, interviewers and audience usually respond negatively to nervous gestures such as fidgeting with a tie or hair or jewelry tapping a pencil
Touches: Repeated studies have shown that babies need to be touched to grow and thrive and that older people are healthier both mentally and physically if they are touched. Some people are more comfortable with touch than others. Some people shake hands in greeting but otherwise don’t like to be touched at all, except by family members and lovers. Other people, having grown up in families that touch a lot, hug as part of a greeting and touch even casual friends. Each kind of person may misinterpret the other. A person who dislikes touch may seem unfriendly to someone who is used to touching. A toucher may seem overly familiar to someone who dislikes touch .In Iran even handshakes between men and women are seen improper. Touches always imply affection, status, power, closeness, familiarity etc.. Top people when they touch their subordinates whether women or men, they like to be touched.
Eye Contact:
Eyes are powerful media, through which a teacher can express and convey a lot of things such as friendliness, fear, approval, affection, wonder, anger etc towards students. By employing this effective body language, teachers should make his class room more interesting and more effective.
Like other Non-verbal means, eye behaviour also can differ. People from some cultures may lower their gaze to convey respect, whereas this may be understood as insulting in other cultures.
Direct eye contact may be seen as insulting in some cultures or conveying attention in others. Good eye contact , raises credibility poor eye contact does exactly the opposite. The frequency of eye blinks is reflective of the measure of honesty. Positive Non-Verbal skills: An English Language teacher for that matter any teacher should be pleasant and cheerful. Definitely students will get this quality infected and they will feel inspired by their teacher. This is a necessary condition for an effective and beneficial teaching. If possible, sort of parental touching by a teacher will make a sense of belonging.
A teacher, through his manners, actions should prove a guide, philosopher, and friend and even surrogate parents to his students.
Non verbal cues speak in fact louder than words. Your personal appearance, facial expressions ,postures, gestures, eye contacts ,voice ,proximity, touch all of these Non verbal signals influence the way in which your message is interpreted.
Non verbal communication includes all unwritten, unspoken messages both intentional and unintentional. Facial expressions, eye contact, tone of voice, body posture, motions, positioning within groups all these will reveal what lies within your mind. This list also may include the way you wear your clothes the silence we keep etc.
Positive Non- verbal skills: An English teacher, for that matter any teacher should be pleasant and cheerful. Definitely students will get this quality infected and they will feel inspired by their teacher. This is a necessary condition and effective and beneficial teaching.
If possible, sort of parental touching by a teacher will make a sense of belonging. A teacher, through his manners actions should prove a guide, philosopher, friend and even surrogate parents to his teachers.
Powerful eyes: Eyes are powerful media, through which a teacher can express and convey a lot of things such as affection towards students’ disapproval, wonder, approval etc.
III. CONCLUSION
Non Verbal Language is as important as verbal language for all professionals for their career growth especially for teachers. We have master and learn this skill only to make our selves professionally exceptional people.
REFERENCES
[1] S.Sankar Raman. “International journal of English Literature”, January 2005, p. 20-25.
[2] KittyOLocker., ” Buissness Communication”, Ohio state University, No. 4, July 2007.
[3] Meenakshi Singh , ” Business English” Oxford Publisher Vol. 12, No. 4, October 2006.
Dr.S.Elangovan is Professor in the Department of English, Lord Venkateswara Engineering College, TamilNadu, India.
Email:elangovanshiva@hotmail.com
E.Aartheeswari, IX, standard, 1B1 Section, Soma Sundara Kanya Vidyalaya Matriculation School, Kanchipuram631501. Tamil Nadu State South India.
Imagine the next time you join a discussion about non-fiction writing. When you start sharing the fascinating non-fiction writing facts that it is never easy to write non-fiction story, and your friends will be absolutely amazed on what you have told them. The best time to learn about non-fiction writing is before you’re in the thick of things. Wise readers will keep reading to earn some valuable non-fiction writing experience while it’s still free. As an author, we are all know that there is a big different between writing fiction and non-fiction. Writing fiction is probably the easiest writing because you can write based on any thing that comes from your imagination and there is no need to proof or verify the story against the fact. Vice versa, non-fiction need time and dedication to write as it’s requires proof and verify against the fact and sometime the check with other reference materials.
However, sometimes non-fiction stories based on research, interviews, experiences and opinion. Sometimes you may find an excellent theme of your new non-fiction by looking around you home or from your favourite book store, then you can see a writing opportunity on book shelf. Also picking some plot story from local daily newspaper or article new stories. Perhaps your new idea of new story from those information sources.
Magazines are also the best information source to have new ideas. I personally have subscribed to almost 20 magazines. They are mix of topics of magazines, which are vary form professional magazines, for example “The Writer,” “Saveur” and “Society of Professional Journalists”.
Not only professional magazines that you have to looking for as an information source, some other kind of magazine are also interesting, actually more interesting in my point of view, they are magazines for hobbies and fun such as “Disney’s Adventures” and “YM,” “Family Handyman,” Golf Digest,” “AARP,” and “Money.” These are all national magazines, cream of the crop and are harder to break into than smaller markets.
Travel around is also a god opportunity to get new ideas, no matter it is a short plane trip or long vacation like you have to take a flight across the country. You may have opportunity to see new things and take some notes then you can use it when you back home. Getting some new ideas from travel magazines or travel brochures and publications from airport stand or in a hotel also possible. The benefit of getting new ideas from these kind of publication is they are available for free, you do not to buy or subscribe like any other publication.
Good non-fiction writers has habit to always collect publication whenever they have a chance and they can even develop the idea and write story when they are at the location of travel and this is a very good example of what good writers should have.
So far, we’ve uncovered some interesting facts about non-fiction writing. You may decide that the following information is even more interesting. If you’ve picked some pointers about non-fiction writing that you can put into action, then by all means, do so. You won’t really be able to gain any benefits from your new knowledge if you don’t use it.
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