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Brands Often Overlook This Superhero of Storytelling

Content Marketing Institute

OK, maybe writing this article as a comic script isn’t such a great idea, even if prose is at a disadvantage when discussing such a visual medium. A picture can help somebody to understand what you want them to do, whereas prose requires an abstract to concrete translation that not everybody’s going to be able to do. Arrow (1963-66).

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How Printing Innovations (and More) Created an Enduring Class Divide in Books

Jane Friedman

They identified material fit for reproduction and offered favored printers the exclusive right to copy it— “copyright.” In 1623, the preface to the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays denounced the “surreptitious copies” that had “maimed” his work. Printers were appalled: Authors wrote, printers copied. Anyone could copy them.

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Everything You Want to Know About Becoming a Freelance Copywriter

Susan Greene

Copywriters write advertising and marketing copy, such as websites, brochures, ads, blog posts and more. The words we write (our “copy”) sell products and services, convince people to take an action, or persuade them to think of a company or brand in a certain light. I’m revising my copy based on client feedback.

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7 Golden Rules: Blogging in English for Non-Native Speakers

ProBlogger

Thankfully, this is easier in written than in spoken language: Nabokov and Conrad, apparently, never quite got rid of their spoken accents, but I am still to hear anybody accuse either author of “Slavic” mannerisms in his prose. Read and listen as much in English as you can, acquiring English rhythms and speech patterns through osmosis.