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: What is the "acid test" for a nonfiction anthology? I'm asking this on Writing.SE because I'm doing a short presentation on "What is an anthology," and I'm not sure how to answer the question
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: Is there a term for a fiction piece that goes after the prologue but before the epilogue? I'm writing a long non-fiction text that describes a fictional setting. I came up with a fiction piece
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: What is the significance of the owl with respect to writing? I've seen 'owl' mentioned many times in the context of writing. Some libraries have an 'owl's nest', some universities have writing
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: Term for stereotype stories Is there any term to describe stories where the "evil" characters are extremely evil, and the good characters are extremely good?
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: Taxonomy of understanding: term Years ago I encountered a term to describe the way verbs are used taxonomically in college syllabi to suggest different levels of comprehension. The hierarchy, in
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: Graphical presentation method nomenclature I'm part of a technical documentation team where I'm suggesting the document designers different methods for graphical presentation. Each time I need to
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: What are the correct terms regarding (this literary) technique? An example comes from a cartoon where there is a woman talking to her boyfriend. There's a "cloud" that comes from her mouth,
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: Is it correct to use acronyms in a bio or should I omit it? In writing a bio in a technical context, like an author blurb in a publication, should I use acronyms or spell them out? Always?
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: What is this 'pretend dialogue' technique called There's a style that is popular on blogs, and takes the form of a dialogue between the reader and the author, where the author provides both
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: What term describes the language used in comparing the ideas of different authors? I teach a course preparing students for college-level writing. In one writing task, the students need to read
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: Does a thematic quote qualify as an allusion? I am writing a paper on "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" and I need to include an allusion in my introduction paragraph. Can
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: What are First Drafts, Second Drafts, etc.? I've been reading a few questions on this site, and I've seen the terms First, Second or Third Drafts. What does this refer to actually? And could
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: What does one call author blurbs at the bottom of journalistic articles? Sometimes journalistic articles have a brief about-the-author sort of blurb at the end, frequently italicized, of a general
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: What are these extra phrases added to the beginning of sentences called? I find that my students are using a lot of these phrases at the beginning of their sentences: First... First of all...
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: What is the term for an accessible character that knows nothing? In a lot of books, movies, or TV shows, there will be a character that knows little to nothing about the subject at hand.
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: Is it okay to call the reader's target audience stupid? I'm a tech genre author, and have already published one book on Android development. However, this book was focused more on the developer
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: Source for literary terms? The other day my wife, who went to quite a good school, told me that her literature teacher had taught her class abbreviations of terms which they were then asked
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: Less universe-specific synonyms for "squib"? I write primarily fantasy; recently, it's been brought to my attention that I use the terms "muggle" and "squib" informally fairly often in roleplay.
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: What is a discovery writer? From an answer to this question: How do I successfully structure a long fiction piece? I think I can infer the meaning from the usage but some elaboration would
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: How do you introduce terms? There's a few different styles for technical (academic) papers. Which is the preferred style to introducing new technical terms? For example, here is a paragraph
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: Defining Terms: To Capitalize or Not To Capitalize? Let's say that I defined a new term in my writing, such as (yes, it's second-person): You spot a Holo-Reader—a long, silver metal tube
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: What is the term for written expressions that lead to "reading between the lines?" What is the term for something that is inferred, but not explicitly written within the text?
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: Where can subject matter experts volunteer to work on proofing the technical details in fiction? I am not a writer (yet!), but I have been working in the computer field for over 10 years and
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: Pantsing a story? I heard a writer talking about pantsing a story. What does that mean?
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