A friend is looking for a five-paragraph essay that instructs the reader on how to write a five-paragraph essay. My Google-fu has failed me in this self-referential task. Can you help?
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posted by perrce
on May 26, 2011 -
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I'm writing a paper on (animated) GIFs and am trying to track down some of the most (in)famous. I suppose I am talking memes, but I'm more interested in the GIF as an archaeological reference point. I frequent sites like
dump.fm,
tumblr etc. so am quite tuned in to the glitchy/kitschy side of GIF culture. How theoretical have people got on these wonders of the web? How does one trace the history of an animated GIF?
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posted by 0bvious
on May 16, 2011 -
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I have difficulty articulating my thoughts coherently, when I write on a topic for more than 700-800 words. When I write less than that, I find writing difficult, but not as difficult. While in school, all of my papers were returned with remarks that my paper contained sentence fragments, sentences that didn't fit in with the rest of the paragraph, sentences that were their own paragraphs, and sentence fragments.
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posted by fizzix
on Mar 3, 2011 -
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How did
you write your university essays? Real life blow-by-blow accounts please.
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posted by fix
on Jan 25, 2011 -
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Looking for older but well written essays that are available online at project gutenberg or other source. The style might be humorous or very serious. I am to some extent familiar with the shorter writings of
J K Jerome and Bertrand Russel and looking for more in a similar vein.
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posted by ilike
on Dec 21, 2008 -
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What are some of your absolute favourite online essays, articles and other pieces of non-fiction writing?
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posted by turgid dahlia
on May 1, 2008 -
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I'd like to recreate the thrill I used to get reading NON-fiction articles in the pre-Tina Brown "New Yorker" (yeah, I know she's no longer the editor, but I can still smell her when I get too close to a current issue), and I'm wondering if I can do it online by following a group of literate blogs (or other online resources?).
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posted by Evangeline
on Oct 1, 2005 -
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Do we have any travel writers in the house? Is it really the life of glamour and ease that
thetravelwriterslife.com claims?
Since I suspect it's not as easy as one might suppose after digesting that page, I have more questions: Can you tell me what it's like? How you got started? What kind of money you pull in?
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posted by Irontom
on Jun 15, 2004 -
9 answers
