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Conflict in your writing draws listeners who want to listen to your work. Conflict keeps them listening. With conflict in every paragraph and sentence, you’ll create writing that sells.

Knowing your audience will help you to organize your material so that it has the best chance of being read and understood. Put yourself in your reader’s shoes - listen, and you will be better received. This book will show you how to write business messages clearly, concisely and simply. It will encourage you to write conversationally, the way you talk, and to write with humanity; that is, from one person to another.

The case studies and exercises in this audiobook provide you with a valuable road map to effortlessly engage the right readers and achieve the results you want for your reader, your book and yourself. After all the effort you’ve put into your book, don’t stop short of your goal! Learn what it takes to make your book a success.

Today's media and political landscapes are littered with untrustworthy sources and the dangerous concept of fake news. This accessible guide helps you fight this deeply troubling trend and ensure that truth is not a permanent casualty. Written by Capitol Hill veteran and author Bruce Bartlett, The Truth Matters presents actionable tips and tricks for consuming news critically, judging sources, using fact-checking sites, avoiding confirmation bias, identifying trustworthy experts, and more.

As humanity gets sucked into more screen time, we must create meaningful media that connects our universal human experiences and emotions - or we risk losing ourselves along the way. Humanize Your Brand explores the meaning, art, and science behind optimizing content to evolve your brand. In this book, Jessica Ann shares cutting-edge insights and guidance for self-expression in your marketing, so that you can bring in more business with ease.

Christmas is a time of seasonal cheer, family get-togethers, holiday parties, and-gift giving. Lots and lots - and lots - of gift giving. It's hard to imagine any Christmas without this time-honored custom. But let's stop to consider the gifts we receive - the rooster sweater from Grandma or the singing fish from Uncle Mike. How many of us get gifts we like? How many of us give gifts not knowing what recipients want? Did your cousin really look excited about that jumping alarm clock?

A great collection of short stories based on the theme of love. Stories by famous writers including Katherine Mansfield and Oscar Wilde.

This expanded work by international best-selling author William Stanek helps you unleash your writing and presentation skills. It's a book for everybody who wants to learn to tap into their writing potential and get the task at hand done. Whether you are writing essays, creating reports, developing articles or preparing presentations, this audio guide will help you every step of the way.

Occuparsi del linguaggio pubblico e della sua qualità non è un lusso da intellettuali o una questione accademica. È un dovere cruciale dell'etica civile. Non è possibile pensare con chiarezza se non si è capaci di parlare e scrivere con chiarezza. Sono parole del filosofo John Searle, teorico del rapporto fra linguaggio e realtà istituzionali. Le società vengono costruite e si reggono essenzialmente su una premessa linguistica: sul fatto cioè che dire qualcosa comporti un impegno di verità e di correttezza nei confronti dei destinatari.

“You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich”, writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: “A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.” Nonconformity is about 20th-century America: “Never on the earth of man has he lived so tidily as here amidst such psychological disorder.” In Nonconformity, Algren identifies the essential nature of the writer’s relation to society....

It is with great satisfaction that we present to you this thorough analysis of the Santo Domingo metro and feeder bus system, realized by Carl Allen, 2009 GFDD Fellow and graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School Master's Program in Public Policy and Urban Planning. Mr. Allen's comprehensive study is an evaluation of the potential impact of the transportation system on poverty alleviation, congestion, pollution reduction, urban development and social and economic advancement.

Enhanced with an exciting personal colloquy, Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 1 has its adroit wordsmith evaluating several of those written works produced by some of the most renowned names in both fiction and nonfiction literature, including Iceberg Slim, Stephen King, John Grisham, Jackie Collins, Donald Goines, and more.

Most "how-to" blog books will teach proper writing protocols for blogging, yet won't show you exactly how the experts make money from it. When I began blogging, I attempted these "writing" strategies and before long discovered I was only writing for myself, as my site had zero traffic! After that revelation, I was hungry to discover what really worked and paid a lot of money examining what made blogs profitable. Since then I have tried every known strategy and over time I began creating my own system for profitable blogging.

This book explores the stages and outlets of grief and how to implement them into your fiction to create deep, interesting characters and a more engaging plot. Some topics of this book include: grieving before the loss, spiritual matters, and how grief affects different ages, personality types, and genders. Find out how to implement heavy emotional scenes authentically, without crossing over into melodrama. Learn which authors have done this well, and how they did it.

I wrote The Power of Writing Well to address everything managers, leaders, engineers, scientists, and others need to be better senders and receivers, not to cover everything they need to know about the language or to be the perfect sender or receiver; nobody is.

The 90 Day Author is a book which compels business owners or aspiring business owners to become leading authorities in his/her field of expertise by becoming an author. Packed with a wealth of information, each chapter contains a relevant story, vital information, and encouragement that will transform the mind of the listener.

This short book condenses the habits and techniques - your tools - that work most of the time for most of the people who write at work and want to be happier in all parts of their lives: nothing more, nothing less . It is also a true and accurate reflection of my 40 years of writing for business and of teaching writing at two prestigious universities and many professional societies and companies. You can trust that what I'm telling you will improve your abilities to communicate and think and make you more productive, promotable, and happy.

Interested in marketing your book using social media? Want to gather some tips for launching successful book marketing campaigns? Trying to find out why you are not selling books and gaining followers? If you answered yes to any of these questions then this book is for you... 50 Things to Know About Marketing Your Self-Published Book Using Social Media by Joseph Young offers a simple, yet comprehensive list of things you need to know as an self-published author that will help you save time, money, and your sanity.

Krankheiten und Viren sind in den Zeiten sozialer Medien und weltweiter Vernetzung nicht das Einzige, das sich nahezu hemmungslos und ohne Grenzen ausbreitet. Gleiches kann man auch über Verschwörungstheorien behaupten. Besonders in Krisenzeiten erleben Verschwörungstheorien eine Art Hochkonjunktur. Je mehr Chaos über die Welt hereinbricht, desto größer wird die Anzahl an Menschen, die glauben, dafür eine ganz spezielle Erklärung gefunden zu haben. Man nennt sie Verschwörungstheoretiker und die Verschwörungen, die sie aufzudecken glauben, haben es in sich.

Il primo e unico “bignami” del copy persuasivo™ in lingua italiana. Questo libretto, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 2017, è pensato per professionisti, imprenditori e tutti coloro che hanno bisogno di comunicare per convincere e ottenere una risposta, in un mondo in cui è sempre più difficile attirare l’attenzione (e stimolare interesse). Nella nuova edizione, arricchita e potenziata, il testo è diviso in 10 capitoli, più nuove appendici e una serie di procedure e dritte per scrivere messaggi chiari e convincenti e superare la sindrome del foglio bianco.