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匿名 — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:10:18 +0000

Totally a waste of money, March 21, 2011

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This review is from: 5 Ways To Make Blogging More Effective And Earn More Money Online (Kindle Edition)

All this contains is 438 words of general amorphous statements about blogging. Don't waste your money. Amazon should provide a content page that describes books like this. My user experience totally disappointed and now reluctant to make any more purchases through the Kindle Store.

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匿名 — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:04:10 +0000

Made it half way through., July 21, 2010

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This review is from: Writing Feature Stories: How to Research and Write Newspaper and Magazine Articles (Paperback)

I've tried several times to pick this book up again to finish reading it, but can't seem to get into it. I might recommend others first, but that may be just me?

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Chelsea Webster-knife — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:46:41 +0000

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Fantastic book, November 24, 2007

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This review is from: Writing Feature Stories: How to Research and Write Newspaper and Magazine Articles (Paperback)

This is a comprehensive book which covers every aspect of feature writing. It provides many examples along the way to highlight good and poor writing. It is obvious why this fantastic book is used by many Australian universities.

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iWriter "Lingualect" — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:37:57 +0000

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

worthwhile, but also worth knowing the following, November 18, 2007

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This review is from: Writing Feature Stories: How to Research and Write Newspaper and Magazine Articles (Paperback)

This book will tell you a lot of what you need to know about writing feature articles. But what I didn't know when I purchased it on Amazon was that it's geared toward the AUSTRALIAN market, which he refers to regularly in the book. Also, most of the examples of writing that he provides, the language and cultural references are of Australia, making it a bit harder to follow for a North American English speaker. If you are not interested in writing for the Australian market, you can be better served by another book. One thing that was missing was the lack of attention given to the distinct writing styles for newspapers and magazines. Considering the title is "how to research and write newspaper and magazine articles," one would imagine that the author would address the differences between the two.

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S. Louda — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:55:42 +0000

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Scientific writing, September 11, 2009

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This review is from: Writing Scientific Research Articles: Strategy and Steps (Hardcover)

This book is written primarily for speakers of English as a second language. The advice is excellent, but too elementary for native English-speakng graduate students (the audience in my course). Thus, it provides some guidance, but could be improved for many graduate students in the USA by taking a deeper look at technical writing in the sciences.

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postgrad@JCU — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:26:09 +0000

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Should be required reading, January 8, 2010

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This review is from: Writing Scientific Research Articles: Strategy and Steps (Paperback)

A very well written, easily read reference for scientific writers, especially early career researchers like myself. It left me wondering why these principles and information weren't better presented during my undergraduate training, especially considering how important scientifc writing is to the scientific process. An invaluable resource, I'd recommend it to any early career researcher who is beginning to write up their research.

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A. Williams "Tokyo Reader" — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:10:11 +0000

37 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

Great magazine gone bad, August 14, 2008

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I began subscribing to the Atlantic around the time of start of the war in Afghanistan, and was an ardent fan. I loved the reporting by James Fallows and Mark Bowden, Mark Steyn's obits, and Christopher Hitchens' erratic but occasionally terrific stuff. It was literary, combative, intelligent, centrist but never doctrinaire. But after a few years I noticed a worrying development. Stories kept cropping up that I suppose were meant to attract a young female readership. They were about boring subjects like healthcare and organic food. There was an editorial slant that was indistinguishable from the NYT or Slate. They ran a cover story about the shortage of good nannies and later an adulatory profile of Barack Obama. Steyn disappeared. The month I cancelled my subscription, Britney Spears was on the cover. I read later that the magazine was taken over by a new publisher around the time it went bad, and it had a callow young editor who was on a drive to raise circulation. Rather than screwing up the content of the magazine, they should have fixed their subscription department. At one stage I had four subscriptions going-- 3 of them gifts to friends, because I was such a fan. When I started a subscription or changed my address, it would take 5 or 6 months for the changes to be carried out. Even responding to my enquiries took weeks. -- A young female reader.

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Bryan Carey "Bryan Carey" — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:08:36 +0000

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Intellectually Stimulating and Highly Anticipated Each Month, June 25, 2008

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The Atlantic is an intellectual magazine and one that I have been reading on and off for many years. This magazine is best known for its political/current events/social articles that tackle some tough issues of the day and it delivers most effectively when it's offering some commentary on world events and social issues and these are the articles I turn to first when I read The Atlantic. I like the political articles best, but there are plenty of other non- political yet very thoughtful articles in each issue.
Most every article in The Atlantic is thoughtful and well- written. Look closely at the authors of some of the stories in this magazine and you will notice some high- profile names on more than one occasion. Christopher Hitchens, Mark Bowden, Eric Schlosser, and others are known to contribute an article or two in each issue of The Atlantic. These writers, and others like them, are ready to offer their take on some of the critical issues of the day.

The Atlantic certainly offers some interesting, thoughtful, intellectual articles and one fact that sets them apart from those found in most other magazines is that the featured articles are often very long- sometimes exceeding ten pages in length. Most magazines shy away from articles this long because they know that most reader's have an attention span that is far too short to finish the entire piece of reading in one sitting. But The Atlantic is different. If the subject matter is such that an article needs to be ten- plus pages in order to thoroughly cover everything, then The Atlantic is quick to oblige. I appreciate the excellent coverage but I must admit that some articles are almost too long. Even when I have an interest in the subject matter, I often end up stopping halfway through because I cannot hold my attention any longer.

Another section I like in The Atlantic is the book reviews section. To present a fair and balanced perspective, The Atlantic reviews new books from many different genres and I like that there are different reviews of varying lengths. One section of The Atlantic called Cover to Cover includes short summaries of many different books. These are nice when you don't have time to read a lengthy review of a book and just want the basics. But there are also some very long book reviews in The Atlantic, along with some advertisements for new books that include a short, 50 to 100 word summary of the book. I like reading the reviews, but I like this section best for its exposure to new book releases. It is like looking at a quick rundown of intellectual books and I have, in fact, discovered some very good titles from this part of the magazine.

Overall, The Atlantic ranks among my favorite magazines and I look forward to some serious, intellectual reading in each issue. I admit that some articles are a tad too lengthy, but I still like The Atlantic for its intellectual stimulation and for its focus on current events. It's a very good magazine for cerebral types who like to read about politics and social issues.

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Bryan Byrd — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:27:45 +0000

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Adrift and rudderless - REVISED 5/8/10, November 30, 2008

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In the interest of fairness, I've revised this review to reflect the current state of 'The Atlantic Monthly', and saved the original below. As this will make a very long review, I'll try to be brief. Since my initial subscription and review of 'The Atlantic', the magazine has gone through some format changes, nearly all of which seem positive to me. For comparison, I read the last two issues of 2009 from cover to cover, and instead of having to force myself to finish, each kept my interest until the end.

Previously, the initial section of the magazine was called 'The Agenda', and it was a collection of short (sometimes only a few paragraphs) news items, included mostly for their ironic, unusual or surprising values. Also in 'The Agenda' were a few articles of a page or two, but the result was a scattering of unrelated material that haphazardly placed serious journalism next to micro-attention grabbers. The new format replaced 'The Agenda' (which seems like a terrible name anyway) with 'Dispatches' - a half a dozen or so equal length articles that concentrate more on the unusual story-behind-a-story. This is light and requires no heavy lifting yet is also entertaining. A vast improvement.

I didn't notice much change in the features format - usually five investigative journalism pieces - other than the fact that I found them more interesting than before. This could have a lot to do with a concentration on subjects that readers of 'The Atlantic' might expect, and leaving Brittany Spears to 'People'.

Lastly, I thought the changes to the book review section and the 'Cover-to-Cover' column to be huge improvements. Instead of trying to cover too many things at once, they wisely (I feel) decided to go with fewer subjects, but more depth.

I realize two issues does not make a subscription, and I will revisit this magazine again to see if the improvements have held up. I have changed my star rating from 2 to 4 (it may only deserve 3 1/2, but the people responsible for the changes seem to be aware of the problems they were facing and took some decisive action). I'm not so enamored that I'm willing to re-subscribe yet, but they are moving in the right direction. I would definitely recommend 'The Atlantic' for someone who, perhaps waiting for a plane, was looking for something intelligent and entertaining to pass the time.

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I carried a subscription to The Atlantic for about a year and a half (most of 2007 and 1/2 of '08), until I just couldn't justify the expense anymore. I generally have five or so magazine subscriptions during any given year, and my criteria for renewing is whether or not I consistently read the issues from cover to cover or not. If I find that I'm slogging through the articles, uninspired by the content, then I bid it a hasty farewell.

Because I subscribe to so many magazines, I'm bombarded by offers through the mail for every periodical you can think of, some of which I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. When I first began considering a subscription to The Atlantic, the biggest stumbling block was the price. I think Amazon's price is lower than what I was ever offered, which was thirty-five dollars a year, but since I was aware of the reputation and longevity of the magazine, I decided to make the plunge.

I had no difficulties receiving my issues, which from reading the other reviews sounds like a problem with Amazon, and not The Atlantic, so kudos to their subscription department. When I recieved my first issue, the publisher also sent me a small information packet about the magazine, which I was very surprised to get. It explained how to read the address label on the magazine (something that was new information - to me, at any rate) to keep track of when the subscription ended, and where to find an account number. It also gave directions on how to end my subscription, should I ever find that necessary. Which I did.

One more note about how The Atlantic's subscription dept. works. Your subscription will be automatically renewed when the previous one runs out, and if you purchase the first sub. with a credit card, they'll simply bill you and you won't miss an issue. I understand why a business might want to operate this way, but as a consumer, I'm not a big fan of this practice. If I don't want the product anymore, I don't like the onus being on me to stop being billed for it. I'd much rather just let the whole relationship die a quiet, peaceful death.

That's the technical details, none of which affected my decision to end my subscription. That decision was based on the magazine's content and editorial direction.

Right away, I noticed I was having a difficult time finishing the magazine. At... Read more

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匿名より Evelyn Waugh. Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing.(Book Review): An article from: World Literature Today へのコメント

匿名 — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:15:50 +0000

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Solid, thorough view, November 21, 2007

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This review is from: The Travel Writer's Handbook: How to Write - and Sell - Your Own Travel Experiences (Paperback)

I have the 2002 edition of the Travel Writer's Handbook (the 5th ed.). While it was updated to include the problems of post 9/11 problems it did not cover the Internet as much as one would expect. And the section on photography is still set in the pre-digital era.
That said, this is still the best all-around book on travel writing. Zobel covers different article types, how to do basic research,whether to accept freebies, what to take along on trips, keeping records for tax purposes and so forth. She spends a lot of time on interviewing techniques and different ways of capturing the sights and sounds of a travel destination.
I assume the newest edition (written with a co-author)is meant to bring this classic into the 21st century with references to pdas, laptops, digital cameras and other accoutrements that were hardly mentioned in the 2002 book. But when it comes to the basic elements of writing the travel article--whether for magazines, newspapers or the many travel websites out there--this book is still founded on solid information.

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