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You've decided to translate a poem. Maybe you have been studying a foreign language your whole life and want to put your talents to good use. Maybe you just came back from vacation to an exotic country and fell in love with their national poet and you want to recall the romance. Either way, translating poetry is serious business and not to be taken lightly. Your job as a translator is not only to pass the meaning of the poem into another language but to respect and honor its spirit. I don't mean you need a séance with a thousand candles, begging the poem to breathe your page. I mean that there are some rules to respect when you translate a poem
Stay Close to the Poem. Read the poem again and again until the words become second nature on your tongue. By doing this, you will be able to feel the rhythm of the poem. You will recognize the pace, the pauses, the beats, the swirls of energy. Write the poem in longhand and make ten copies. Stick these where you can see and read them. Try the bathroom, the kitchen cabinet, or the freezer door, leading to the Ben & Jerry's. These copies will familiarize you with the poem's grammatical structure: Where the adjectives are, where there is a break in tenses. Plus, if you put them on that package of Oreo's, it'll take you longer to gobble the bag down. You will have to read the poem first
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اين پست را اختصاص دادم به يك مطلب اموزشي براي اساتيد اما بد نيست كه دانش اموختگان زبان هم اين مقاله آموزشي رو مطالعه كنند .اميد به اينكه مورد استفاده شما دوستان قرار گيرد .
An article discussing the role of dictation in English language teaching
Introduction
Dictation is seen by many teachers as somewhat old-fashioned, a relic of the grammar-translation method that dominated language teaching until the last couple of decades of the 20th century. For many people it brings back unhappy memories of dull, uncommunicative and often difficult lessons, where the focus was fairly and squarely on accuracy of language
However, if you reflect for a moment on what dictation actually does, then you will see that it can be an extremely versatile activity. It practises first and foremost listening and writing skills and within the latter a range of sub-skills from letter formation to spelling, punctuation and lay-out. It can also be argued that it practises vocabulary, syntax, grammar and, when the writer reviews his or her work, reading. In short, it gives practice in almost everything. The one skill absent from this list is the speaking skill, but this too can be practised if the dictation is approached in a slightly different way
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A professional biography or overview, showcasing your
background, experience and expertise, is a necessity for every
business owner. This often overlooked marketing tool is an
excellent way to introduce you and your business to potential clients
and possible strategic business partners. Potentially, it might open
up opportunities for speaking engagements, radio or television
interviews, or a feature print article. While any information about
you and your business is helpful, information that is presented in a
professional, well-polished manner can make all the difference in
how others perceive you. Consider these important points as you
craft your own professional biography
One page wonder
Your professional biography should be a few paragraphs and kept
to one page or less. One page is perfect for copying on the
reverse side of a handout or flyer. Several paragraphs, left justified
make it easier to read and skim
An Obstacle to Achieving Your Purpose
Some business owners don’t recognize - or care to acknowledge - how their employees’ writing influences the success of the business. One of my reasons for writing this post was to open some eyes. So let’s look at the reasons why bad writing is such an obstacle to achieving business goals, and how I help to conquer it
High standards of grammar, spelling, and punctuation should be expected in the workplace; but these mean nothing if the content itself doesn’t express the writer’s ideas accurately. Every piece of writing has a job to do. Whether the intention is to convince, argue, inform, or document, there’s a business purpose to be achieved
I’ve had people say to me that perfection in writing is not important enough to spend time (and money) on. As long as the reader gets the drift, that’s good enough for them. That kind of thinking is dead wrong, and here’s why: errors in writing are not benign things that readers gloss over and ignore. Errors do damage
Let’s separate the concept of "errors" into two parts
Grammatical, spelling, and punctuation mistakes
Flawed or confusing expression
Errors of the first kind will damage your company’s image and credibility
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When you’re buying diamonds, you need to know the Four C’s (color, cut, clarity, and carat). That little trick tells you what to look for, or at least what to ask about. Diamonds aren’t the only things that can be discussed in terms of C’s. Writing has some C’s of its own
Maybe you’re a business person trying to get a reader to buy your product, agree to your terms, or meet your deadline. Maybe you’re with a charity, non-profit, or political group that seeks contributions or involvement in a cause. In any case, when you need results, your job is to convince your reader to take action
To make that easier, I suggest following the Five C’s of writing. I hope they help you create business letters that are worth their weight in diamonds
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Talking about what you want to write help you to organize and focus on what you want to say. So if you can’t get started writing, perhaps you can start by talking.When you can explain something clearly to another person, you’ve got the basis for writing it. If you happen to be all alone, that’s okay. Nobody will report you for talking to yourself
Before we begin, I like to break the task into smaller steps - "doable doses," as James Taylor calls them in one of his early songs. If writing doesn’t come easily to you, then thinking about the whole thing is too daunting. One little step is "doable
So what are the steps? Let’s talk about writing a business letter
a) Identify the purpose in your own mind. Are you explaining something? Asking for information? Arguing about something? What do you hope to achieve with this letter? As soon as you’ve identified your purpose, write it down. Then you’ll have something to come back to if you lose your focus
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Ten Ways to Become a Better Writer
Today I’d like to share some tips that are more general, and have to do with your overall development as a writer. Some of the tips go together. Numbers d, e, and f, for example, deal with having a great variety of words at your disposal and using them correctly. Numbers g and h have to do with clarity and simplicity. Some of the tips belong in both posts because they relate to writing habits. Even if you’ve read them before, they are worth repeat
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Some days ago I showed you ten of the most common writing mistakes people make. Here are ten more. Your spell checker can’t spot these mistakes because they involve misused words, not misspellings. As before, my explanations are simple, and should keep you on the right track in most cases. So here we go
a. Advice/advise
b. Loose/lose
c. Passed/past
d. Desert/dessert
e. All ready/already
f. Weather/whether
g. Sit/set
h. Can/may/might
i. Then/than
j. Site/sight/cite
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How to Write an Essay
There are many ways to write an essay. However, the standard essay form follows the same basic patterns as discussed in this
Here's How
a. Select the topic of your essay
b. Choose the central idea, or thesis, of your essay. For example: Information technology has revolutionized the way we work
c. Outline your essay into introductory, body and summary paragraphs
d. The introductory paragraph begins with an interesting sentence. For example: Home workers have grown from 150,000 to over 12 million in the past 5 years thanks to the wonders of the computer
e. After this first sentence, add your thesis statement from above
f. Use one sentence to introduce every body paragraph to follow. For example: The Internet has made this possible by extending the office into the home
g. Finish the introductory paragraph with a short summary or goal statement. For example: Technological innovation has thus made the traditional workplace obsolete
h. In each of the body paragraphs (usually two or three) the ideas first presented
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Ten common writing mistakes your spell checker won't find
Here are ten of the most common writing mistakes people make. Because they involve use of incorrect words, and not misspellings, your spell checker won’t see them. So you have to catch them yourself
There is much more that can be written about each of the following examples, and academic grammarians will gladly oblige. But my intention is just to give you some easy hints for how to tell, in most cases, which word to choose. I hope they help
a. Less/ fewrer:(The fewer mistakes,the better
b. two/too/to-tsie,Goodbye
c. They're/their/trere(it's all going to be okay
d. The who's who of whose and who's
e. Its and it's(It's the sme story as whose and who's
f. I and me(You have to deal with both of us
g. You're/your(It's as easy as apple pie
h. Bad/badly (sorry if this makes you feel bad
i. Imply/infer(or be careful who you call fat
j. A lot is two words
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RULES OF WRITING
a.To join two independent clauses, use a comma followed by a conjunction, a semicolon alone, or a semicolon followed by a sentence modifierb. Use commas to bracket nonrestrictive phrases, which are not essential to the sentence's meaning
c. Do not use commas to bracket phrases that are essential to a sentence's meaning
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