American youth are “geographic illiteracy.” That is the conclusion of passes correspondent RIA News, came columnist Argentine newspaper La Da “Andres Oppenheymer article on the study conducted by the National Geographic Society survey of young people aged 18 to 24 from around the world.
The author finds that three out of every five young Americans could not find on the world map Japan or France, and even more-70% - failed to show even the location of Great Britain.
With regard to Afghanistan, which was shown only 17% of respondents, or Israel, Iraq and Iran, which is on the map knows only one out of every ten young people of the United States, complained in an article. Incidentally, the same number of young Americans - 11% - miserably to find United States on the map. So, according to the survey, the situation with literacy has not changed for the better over the past 14 years, although not long ago, Americans were in Afghanistan war. “But the less people know about other countries, the more difficult to understand it,” with sadness Oppenheymer comments on the situation.
The map has been drawn up based on a survey of Americans with withdrawing from the calculations.
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In a move to lessen if not prevent plagiarism among university students, Google is banning advertisements by essay writing companies and services from its advertising fold. The ban on these kinds of advertisements came after numerous complaints have been filed by university authorities who have numerous incidents of students submitting unoriginal or copied essays and other research reports.
This advertisement ban was welcomed by university authorities but not so much by writing companies who have been in the business of writing for pay activities. Moreso by freelancers who are employed by these companies. Claiming that their business is legitimate, the writing companies said that when they are engaged by students, who incidentally are mostly foreign students, they make it clear to their clients that they should not in any way claim or allude that the article these companies wrote are written by the students themselves.
I think Google is over reacting to the complaints of university authorities. I would have to side with the writing companies argument. After all, they too are legitimate companies which have the right to purchase advertising spots not only from Google, but from other online companies as well.
As for students, better save the name and particulars of the writing companies they are currently dealing with. They might lose valuable services provided by these companies if they don’t bookmark their sites. Sooner or later, you wouldn’t find a good link to a reliable writing company once Google bans advertisements of these companies.
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Check Google, custom essays and term paper writing adverts are still there! Why is it so? Did Google change its mind?
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Authors: How to get published, another approach.
Any author who has tried to get published knows just how hard it can be. After all, reaching out to dozens of publishers and just ending up with a pile of “rejection letters” can be disheartening month after month. It sometimes may almost seem harder to get published then to write actually write a book. What is one to do? One certainly does not wish to extinguish the book burning inside oneself. Well, one idea is to think “outside the box.”
Fortunately, for the writer, the world of publishing today, is in the process of rapid transition. Emerging new options, offer tantalizing possibilities for the enterprising author. One creative solution to the problem is to consider “self publishing.” As the saying goes “if you cannot beat them, join them.” Why not become a publisher? Turn the problem on its head, make it the basis for a solution. It is not as daunting as it may sound. Dramatic changes in technology offer new ideas and solutions.
Today, many options exist to help authors publish their books independently. A large part of the process may be figuring out what will work for you and what has worked successfully for others. While the traditional world of publishing is opening up, new worlds in publishing are also emerging. In addition to traditional paperback books, publishing today is increasingly expanding on to the internet. One can certainly explore setting up websites, and publishing ebooks, for example.
Here too, there are numerous opportunities for an enterprising writer. Of course the writer, may need to learn new tools and/or form new alliances with emerging skill-sets. However, authors today, unlike past generations of writers, are very technically savvy. Gone are the days of ribbons and typewriters. Today, most writers create their works on word processors on a computer. Many authors, due to the rapid integration of technology into our lives, feel comfortable enough to experiment with the new internet writing and publishing skill-sets. Some may even argue, that html editors (the editors used to “write web pages”) are in many ways similar to the word processors writers use on a daily basis.
In fact, your current word processor probably has an option to create web pages. (You can try it by saving a file using a “save as” type command, in a “dialog box” that pops up look for the “save as type drop down box” and select htm, html or a similar variant. Click save, and viola you have a web page!) Of course, I do not mean to suggest that technology is always so easy or simple. In fact, often it may not be, as we all know. For many, either to due to constraints of time, skill or desire, their desire to explore new technologies will be limited. But one can always consider hiring or outsourcing tasks one is not interested in.
However, one approaches the problem, there are many options available today to become a paperback publisher or internet website-based ebook publisher. So the next time a publisher brushes you off, don’t take it personally, simply consider the new universe of options that beckons to you. After all, what is stopping you?
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Start your press release with a great headline that will convince the media to read further. “The headline of a press release has one job and one job only,” according to press release guru Paul Hartunian. “The only job of a press release headline is to force the reporter to keep reading. The headline has no other job. Don’t force your press release headline to do anything more than force the reporter to keep reading. That’s a big enough job!”
In press releases, headlines are critical. They’re the first, and often the only, thing the media reads. If your headline doesn’t immediately grab the reader’s attention, your release usually won’t be read.
To seize the media’s attention, link your headlines to:
1) Money,
2) Sex,
3) Health,
4) Controversy.
Remember to grab the media by looking at and reacting to what is in the news! The media does not care about you or your book.They care about how good an interview you are, how you react to something that is going on now- and they want you to help their audience and or readers-
Do your homework! Read magazines, newspapers every day- and watch several TV shows every day- including Today, GMA and CBS Early Show. Couldn’t hurt to watch Oprah too!
Make sure that you know everything you can about the reporter before you speak to him or her. Read all that they have written- do a google search- know where there went to school… Be prepared!
Excerpted from Author 101: Bestselling Book Publicity, by Rick Frishman and Robyn Spizman; http://www.author101.com
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When you are indexing a document, that is, creating an Index for a document, make sure you observe the following three golden rules for maximum user satisfaction:
1) Limit your Index to a maximum of THREE indented levels. Human mind starts losing track of the nestled groupings once you cross over into the fourth level and beyond. It helps a great deal if every level has its own styling. For example, the first level could be in BOLD letters, the second level in normal PLAIN fonts, and the third in plain ITALIC fonts. I’d recommend to use the same font family and not switch to different fonts in between indentation levels.
2) Always start your indexed words with LOWER CASE letters, unless it is an acronym. Lower case letters is easier for the human eye to read. But all acronyms should be in all caps. It is great practice to repeat every acronym also in its open form, starting each word with UPPER CASE letter. For example, repeat “ACS 115″ also as “American Cancer Society 115″, but not as “american cancer society 115″, etc.
3) Make sure all important phrases are CROSS INDEXED, cross referenced, under their respective letters. For example, repeat “space shuttle” also as “shuttle, space.” In this case both are under the letter S. Repeat “welfare state” as “state, welfare” under the letters W and S, respectively. Do the extra work if you want your users find what they are looking for easily. Cross-referenced index entries will prevent the users from thinking. And a user that can go through a document, book or manual without thinking is a happy user.
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