Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...liberty, stimulate the industry, and meliorate the morals of an enlightened and free people." If the encouragement of sainted statesmen could have paid printers' bills and enlisted subscribers, the careers of early American periodicals would have made a less hectic story than they do.* More aptly did Noah Webster write in his American Magazine,? in the same year: "The expectation of failure is connected with the very name of a Magazine...
Take time to think before you write. Quality will be regarded rather than mere quantity...
...Each of these poets was an artist, but the art of no two of them was the same. Write (with such concrete illustration as is possible) about the work of each from the point of view of the writer's art. Take into account such matters as development of technique, characteristic methods of treatment, technical excellences and defects...
...undesirability of the examination lies in its inordinate length which, by the physical limitations of writing, precludes any opportunity for the student to show a grasp beyond the major elements of each of the poets. Inquiries reveal that the average number of words which students, in varied fields answering various types of questions, can write without having to pause is not over 1,300 words per hour. These figures will be admitted to be high, for many men questioned were amazed to find that others did write at such a rate. By applying these figures to the English 72 examination...
...journalism at Columbia University, is famed among editors as consultant to magazines and publishers. He became famed among newspaper readers last year when he announced that the late great Woodrow Wilson was a lifelong sufferer from an unnameable ailment. Other books by Author Pitkin: Psychology of Happiness, How to Write Stories...