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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">Applying for the custom <a href="http://essaywritingservices.org/essay-services.php">essay writing service </a>online you save your time and money. It means that you do not waste your time on researching, collecting and arranging materials and then writing, <a href="http://editing-services.org/online-editing.php">editing</a> and <a href="http://editing-services.org/proofreading.php">proofreading</a>. These processes may take a week of your time if the number of pages is more than five, for example.<span>  </span>The lack of time and number of assignments do not allow spending a lot of time on one essay writing. That’s why many students order <strong><a target="_blank" href="http://custom-written-papers.org/index.php">custom written essay papers</a></strong> such as history <a target="_blank" href="http://custom-essay-writing-service.org/custom-essay.php">custom essays</a><strong>, </strong>law <a target="_blank" href="http://custom-essay-writing-service.org/custom-essay.php">custom essay</a>, etc. Those students who have taken advantages of <strong><a href="http://custom-essay-writing-service.org/custom-essay.php">custom essay</a></strong> writing are often returning to make another order.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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		<title>Essay writing help</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Essay writing help, tip:  I suppose I shouldn&#8217;t talk about  &#34;getting rid of mistakes in grammar&#34; because I&#8217;m not just talking  about grammar strictly defined but also about punctuation, spelling, and  mechanics; and because these things are really conventions of usage rather than  matters of absolute correctness or error. Whether [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Essay writing help, tip:  I suppose I shouldn&#8217;t talk about  &quot;getting rid of mistakes in grammar&quot; because I&#8217;m not just talking  about grammar strictly defined but also about punctuation, spelling, and  mechanics; and because these things are really conventions of usage rather than  matters of absolute correctness or error. Whether a given usage is a  &quot;mistake&quot; or not often depends on the audience and the situation. But  I would rather talk crudely about <em>grammar</em> and <em>right and wrong</em> since that is the way most of us experience this whole business and that is the  way we are going to have to come to terms with it. <br />  Essay writing help, tip:  Like it or not, there is a deep psychic  importance to that whole set of rules and conventions for writing which we tend  to sum up loosely as grammar. Grammar is glamour. They are the same word. Like <em>channel/canal</em> or <em>guard/ward</em> or <em>porridge/pottage,</em> the two words just started out  as two pronunciations of the same word &#8212; a mere matter of regional accent. For  grammar was glamour. If you knew grammar you were special. You had prestige,  power, access to magic; you understood a mystery; you were like a nuclear  physicist. But now, with respect to grammar, you are only special if you lack  it. Writing without errors doesn&#8217;t make you anything, but writing with errors  &#8212; if you give it to other people -makes you a hick, a boob, a bumpkin. Grammar  school used to be a special gateway into privilege for a select few. Now  grammar school is the lowest, simplest, least special school there is. <br />  Essay writing help, tip:  The result, oddly enough, is that now grammar  often preoccupies people <em>more</em> than when it was glamour. People who don&#8217;t  know grammar are liable to think about it all the time when they are writing.  They have only to pick up a pencil and their attention is almost entirely  occupied with the question of whether things are right or wrong. They are even  liable to feel nervous when they speak &#8212; at least if they are speaking to  strangers. In addition, lots of people who <em>do</em> know grammar well cannot  see a mistake in their reading without being completely distracted from the  meaning of the words. And it&#8217;s not just people who know grammar well: everyone  gets distracted. The only thing that&#8217;s different about people who know grammar  well is that they find <em>more</em> mistakes. Essay writing help.  (English teachers may be hawk-eyed about  mistakes, but actually they are better than most people at paying attention to  the meaning of words while still noticing mistakes in grammar.) Grammar is  writing&#8217;s surface. When you meet strangers, you can hardly keep from noticing  their clothing before you notice their personality. The only way to keep  someone from noticing a surface is to make it &quot;disappear,&quot; as when  someone wears the clothes you most expect her to wear. The only way to make  grammar disappear &#8212; to keep the surface of your writing from distracting  readers away from your message &#8212; is to make it right. </p>
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		<title>More info on writing essay  help</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing essay help:   There are some people, of course, who lack voice even in their speech.  They have developed a habit of speaking in a careful or guarded way so that you  cannot hear any real rhythm and texture. Their speech sounds wooden, dead,  fake. Some people who have sold [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Writing essay help:   There are some people, of course, who lack voice even in their speech.  They have developed a habit of speaking in a careful or guarded way so that you  cannot hear any real rhythm and texture. Their speech sounds wooden, dead,  fake. Some people who have sold their soul to a bureaucracy come to talk this  way. Some people speak without voice who have immersed themselves in a lifelong  effort to think logically or scientifically &#8212; who have built up the habit of  considering the validity of every word before they utter it. Some people lack  voice in their speech who are simply very frightened: they experience all of  life as a job interview for a job they doubt they&#8217;ll get. <br />  Writing essay help:   It&#8217;s easy to use this distinction between voice and no voice. We may  disagree about borderline cases, but we can probably agree that it&#8217;s valid and  even useful to distinguish writing by whether the author breathed a sound and a  human rhythm into it. It&#8217;s easy to hear voice in this excerpt from <em>Falconer</em> by John Cheever (the main character is writing a letter) and lack of voice in  the business card message that follows it: <br />  Writing essay help:   I can remember coming back to the Danieli on the Lido  after a great day on the beach when we had both been solicited by practically  everybody. It was at that hour when the terrible, the uniquely terrible band  began to play terrible, terrible tangos and the beauties of the evening, the  girls and boys in their handmade clothes, had begun to emerge. I can remember  this but I don&#8217;t choose to. The landscapes that come to mind are unpleasantly  close to what one finds on greeting cards &#8212; the snowbound farmhouse is  recurrent &#8212; but I would like to settle for something inconclusive. It is late  in the day. We have spent the day on a beach. I can tell because we are burned  from the sun and there is sand in my shoes. A taxi &#8212; some hired livery &#8212; has  brought us to a provincial railroad station, an isolated place, and left us  there. What is writing essay help?  The  station is locked and there is no town, no farmhouse, no sign of life around  the place excepting a stray dog. When I look at the timetable nailed to the  station house I realize that we are in Italy although I don&#8217;t know where.  I&#8217;ve chosen this memory because there are few specifies. We have either missed  the train or there is no train or the train is late. I don&#8217;t remember. I can&#8217;t  even remember laughter or a kiss or putting my arm around your shoulder as we  sat on a hard bench in an empty provincial railroad station in some country  where English was not spoken. The light was going, but going as it so often  does, with a fanfare. All I really remember is a sense of your company and a  sense of physical contentment. </p>
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		<title>Help writing essay</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Help writing essay:   Most teachers have ears, but their Ears are covered. Because they have  never thought that Voice is the province of the public school, even if they valued  It, they wouldn&#8217;t ask for It. You ask for It. You tell others that It&#8217;s there  to be sensed and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Help writing essay:   Most teachers have ears, but their Ears are covered. Because they have  never thought that Voice is the province of the public school, even if they valued  It, they wouldn&#8217;t ask for It. You ask for It. You tell others that It&#8217;s there  to be sensed and asked for. . . . Don&#8217;t try to explain it to rationalistic  people in rationalistic terms! It is something that ultimately cannot be  explained to anyone who hasn&#8217;t heard. And those who have heard will forgive you  for the inadequacy of your words. <br />  Help writing essay:   But I cannot resist trying to work this thing out more fully and  rationally. For one thing I want to be able to explain it to more people &#8212;  even to people who haven&#8217;t heard it. Besides, I needed to figure out if voice  was the right word. Voice, in writing, implies words that capture the sound of  an individual on the page. But though that seems central to what I&#8217;m fishing  for, sometimes I found passages with this sound &#8212; yes, these words had been  breathed into &#8212; yet the words somehow lacked the deeper power and resonance  that had gradually become the object of my quest. <br />  Help writing essay:   Writing with no voice is dead, mechanical, faceless. It lacks any sound.  Writing with no voice <em>may</em> by saying something true, important, or new;  it may be logically organized; it may even be a work of genius. But it is as  though the words came through some kind of mixer rather than being uttered by a  person. Extreme lack of voice is characteristic of bureaucratic memos,  technical engineering writing, much sociology, many textbooks: <br />  Help writing essay:   Tests should reflect changes in learned behavior; the normal utilization  of reliability estimates must be revised since it is assumed that we are not  measuring a trait or innate mental capacity but rather an acquired skill or  concept which can be measured incrementally. Thus scores should reflect changes  from one administration to the next. <br />  Help writing essay:   Nobody is at home here. In its extreme form, no voice is the armymanual  style. But the sad truth is that the careful writing of most people lacks  voice. <br />  Help writing essay:   Voice, in contrast, is what most people have in their speech but lack in  their writing &#8212; namely, a sound or texture &#8212; the sound of &quot;them.&quot;  We recognize most of our friends on the phone before they say who they are. A  few people get their voice into their writing. When you read a letter or  something else they&#8217;ve written, it has the sound of them. It feels as though writing  with voice has life in it. It&#8217;s almost as though the breath makes the words  themselves do some of the work of getting up off the page into our head as we  read. We need only pass our eyes, like phonograph needles, along the grooves  and magically sounds and meanings will form in our head. </p>
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		<title>Help writing a reference</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Help writing a reference:  So what follows from this peculiar power of  grammar to monopolize people&#8217;s attention? from the nasty fact that grammar,  like sex and money, can only be ignored when it&#8217;s fine?   Help writing a reference:  Perhaps the most obvious thing that follows  is the desirability [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Help writing a reference:  So what follows from this peculiar power of  grammar to monopolize people&#8217;s attention? from the nasty fact that grammar,  like sex and money, can only be ignored when it&#8217;s fine? <br />  Help writing a reference:  Perhaps the most obvious thing that follows  is the desirability of learning grammar if you don&#8217;t know it. (Not the theory  of grammar, though that is an interesting subject, but how to write right.)  Learning grammar well would free some people from a gnawing if sometimes  unconscious insecurity and enable them to hold their heads up in some arenas  where they now feel they can&#8217;t. Happily, it&#8217;s not hard to find good instruction  in grammar. There are lots of courses for people of all ages and lots of good  programmed textbooks from which you can learn it by yourself in six months of diligent  slogging. For many people, a class brings up intolerable feelings of &quot;Oh,  I don&#8217;t know grammar, I&#8217;m an idiot.&quot; But a class is probably the best  method for ensuring that you keep going. If you take a class, try to shop  around to see if you can find a teacher who suits you. <br />  Help writing a reference:  But you can&#8217;t learn grammar overnight. If you  want your words to be taken seriously you have to find some other way to remove  the mistakes from your final draft. Mistakes in grammar lead readers to notice  other weaknesses. And most readers cannot keep from assuming, even if  unconsciously, that you are stupid if they find mistakes in your grammar. If  you weren&#8217;t brought up to speak and write standard, middle-class, white  English, you&#8217;ll probably be twice penalized for any mistakes in standard  written English you make-and not just with white middle-class readers either.  Removing errors may well be the most &quot;cost effective&quot; of all revising  activities. <br />  Help writing a reference:  You can learn lots of grammar in six months,  but it would take two or three times that long to learn everything you need. I,  for example, even though I have a pretty good knowledge of grammar, cannot  remove enough errors from my final draft to make readers take me as seriously  as I want to be taken. I get a friend or two to help me by proofreading. You  can&#8217;t see your own mistakes. Learning grammar is a formidable task that takes  crucial energy away from working on your writing, and worse yet, the process of  learning grammar interferes with writing: it heightens your preoccupation with  mistakes as you write out each word and phrase, and makes it almost impossible  to achieve that undistracted attention to your <em>thoughts</em> and <em>experiences</em> as you write that is so crucial for strong writing (and sanity). For most  people, nothing helps their writing so much as learning to ignore grammar as  they write. Let’s learn more about help writing a reference.  </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Help with writing skills:  Why must I complicate the simple distinction  between voice and no voice by introducing a third category, real voice? It&#8217;s  because I think there are some pieces of writing with the liveliness and energy  of voice &#8212; and in this respect they have a great advantage over [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Help with writing skills:  Why must I complicate the simple distinction  between voice and no voice by introducing a third category, real voice? It&#8217;s  because I think there are some pieces of writing with the liveliness and energy  of voice &#8212; and in this respect they have a great advantage over writing without  voice &#8212; yet they lack the power and resonance of the Medawar and the Cheever.  The following excerpt is an example (written by a student):  <br />  Help with writing skills:  It always kills me when I see somebody who  can take an old toothbrush, a used toilet roll, and a ball of twine, and in ten  minutes can whip up a sculpture to rival the beauty of any Da Vinci. Personally  I am about as creative as Richard Nixon&#8217;s joke writer. Something as simple as  &quot;Three Dozen Ways  with Nylon Net&quot; just flies right over my head. I mean, what would I use  nylon net for anyway? To catch praying mantises in my dorm room? Line a shirt  with it and wear it when I feel masochistic? <br />  Help with writing skills:  Maybe I&#8217;m just frustrated. I just got back  from my community kitchen, where my next-door neighbor, Alice Artistic, was  cutting partridge-shaped seals from foil Sucrets wrappers to put on the back of  her homemade envelopes in which she plans to mail her homemade Christmas cards.  My Christmas cards consist of eight-cent postcards with &quot;Noel&quot;  written on them in red Bic pen. <br />  Help with writing skills:  I knew I had no artistic talent when my  fourth-grade class made maps of Washington  out of oatmeal and plywood. I colored mine with pink food coloring, spelled out  &quot;Wash&quot;  in the middle of it in silver cake-decorating balls and brought it home. My dog  ate it for dinner. <br />  Help with writing skills:  This writing has the lively sound of speech.  It has good timing. The words seem to issue naturally from a stance and  personality. But what strikes me is how little I can feel the reality of any  person in these words. I experience this as a lack of any deeper resonance.  These words don&#8217;t give off a solid thump that I can trust. <br />  Help with writing skills:  Consider the speech of certain hyped-up radio  or television announcers or slick salesmen or over-earnest preachers: speech  that is fluent and without hesitation, full of liveliness and energy,  &quot;full of expression&quot; as we say &#8212; and yet its voice is blatantly  fake. These people are doing some kind of imitation or unconscious parody of  how an &quot;expression-filled&quot; voice is supposed to sound. </p>
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		<title>Help writing summaries</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you need help writing summaries?  At first, students can only get this power or  voice in the kinds of passages where it first appeared: certain moods, certain  memories, certain trains of thought. But, gradually, over weeks and months, if  they experiment and try to let this power declare itself and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you need help writing summaries?  At first, students can only get this power or  voice in the kinds of passages where it first appeared: certain moods, certain  memories, certain trains of thought. But, gradually, over weeks and months, if  they experiment and try to let this power declare itself and see where it might  lead them, it transfers to or becomes available in other areas of writing. For  example, perhaps there was a peculiar resonance in passages that were angry or  self-pitying &#8212; or in descriptions of certain kinds of places. But then,  gradually, as the writer does more and more of this particular kind of writing,  she gets better at feeling and using this power, and so very slowly the  resonance comes to characterize a few more kinds of writing. If at first  students could only do it with passages of autobiographical writing that  explored certain kinds of incidents, then gradually they could get it in other  kinds of incidents, and gradually even in expository writing. For some  students, voice came first in certain kinds of expository writing.  I can help writing summaries.  <br />  Would you like to get help writing summaries? It is  this experience in the last few years that has impelled me to try to work out a  fuller theory of voice. For the power I am seeking, some people use words like <em>authenticity</em> or <em>authority.</em> Many people call it <em>sincerity,</em> but I think that&#8217;s  misleading because this power can be present when the writing is not really  sincere and absent when the writing is sincere. I like to call this power <em>juice.</em> The metaphor comes to me again and again, I suppose, because I&#8217;m trying to get  at something mysterious and hard to define. &quot;Juice&quot; combines the  qualities of <em>magic potion, mother&#8217;s milk,</em> and <em>electricity.</em> Sometimes I fear I will never be clear about what I mean by voice. Certainly I  have waxed incoherent on many occasions. One teacher I admire, Ellen Nold,  heard me struggling unsuccessfully to explain myself to a meeting of writing teachers  at Stanford University. <br />  Do you need help writing summaries?  The voice phenomenon cannot well be discussed  in rationalistic terms; every time you tried to define the conditions of it  arising, you failed hopelessly. Why not just give up? Why not confront Voice  for what it is? <br />  Do you need help writing summaries? What is it? That&#8217;s  the question Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism are built around. The very question is  a Zen koan. We all know, as Persig in <em>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle  Maintenance</em> points out, that Quality exists, and we can agree pretty well  what writing has Quality and what does not. Quality is the same as Voice is the  same as Tao is the same as Self is the same as Atman-Brahman is the same as . .  . When I speak with Voice, It&#8217;s loud because It speaks directly to your Ear,  not just to your ear, which is constantly distracted by other voices. . . . You  teach writing by pointing out to students when your Ear hears and asking them  to do more of That. The rationalists tear their hair out. Can that be teaching?  Where is the content? The technique? What is this Voice? Where can I buy an  Ear? How do I know that my Ear is like your Ear? </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seek CV writing help?   Think what this means for you as a writer. You have these thoughts you  want to communicate, but you can&#8217;t just give them to readers, you must get  readers to construct them. You must walk up to readers and say, &#34;Let&#8217;s go  for a ride. You [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seek CV writing help?   Think what this means for you as a writer. You have these thoughts you  want to communicate, but you can&#8217;t just give them to readers, you must get  readers to construct them. You must walk up to readers and say, &quot;Let&#8217;s go  for a ride. You pedal, I&#8217;ll steer.&quot; You are saying, &quot;Here&#8217;s a  beautiful sculpture for you,&quot; but it is just a pile of limp balloons  intricately arranged on a rack. In order to see the sculpture, readers first  must blow them up &#8212; and blow them up right, too. They must provide <em>pneuma</em> &#8212; breath-spirit. &quot;Here&#8217;s a lovely painting,&quot; you say, but it&#8217;s just  lines and numbers and readers must paint in the colors. You don&#8217;t even supply  the key which tells which color is designated by which number. Readers must  bring that knowledge: that&#8217;s what it means to know how to read. <br />  Seek CV writing help?   You can&#8217;t give readers a finished product no matter how much you want to  &#8212; any more than a playwright can actually send a live play through the mail. She  can only send the script &#8212; a set of directions for producing a play. The best  you can do is make sure you have overhauled the bicycle so that the pedalling  isn&#8217;t harder than necessary. You can promise not to go up unnecessary hills.  You can make sure there aren&#8217;t any holes in the balloons or misprints in the  paint-by-numbers picture that would make the tree come out purple &#8212; unless you  want it purple. But no matter how good a job you do of <em>preparing</em> the  piece of writing, still the reader has to do all the work of pedalling,  blowing, or painting-by-numbers. <br />  Seek CV writing help?   If that makes reading sound like a lot of work, there&#8217;s worse to come.  For I&#8217;ve only been talking about getting <em>meaning</em> out of words. But the  real topic here is power in language. That means we must talk about readers  getting an <em>experience</em> out of words, not just a meaning. <br />  Seek CV writing help?   I remember the occasion when I first realized that the reader has this  second layer of work to do if the words are going to have power. I was reading  a novel and I came to this sentence: <br />  Now this night the sun had left the sky in a cascade  of magenta over pale blue, and the autumn moon nearly full had begun to  illuminate the huge dark clouds piling on the horizon. <br />  Seek CV writing help?   It stopped me. I had been having some difficulty or resistance since the  beginning, but I&#8217;d sort of pushed it away from consciousness and kept on  reading. With this sentence I suddenly realized that I couldn&#8217;t see that sky &#8212;  and that there&#8217;d been lots I hadn&#8217;t been seeing all along. </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seek help with writing?  The speech of such announcers, salesmen, and preachers  is merely an extreme example of voice-but-not-real-voice. It serves to  illustrate blatantly what everyone sometimes does: adopt a voice in order to  face an audience. Since their whole vocation consists of trying to sway an  audience with their [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seek help with writing?  The speech of such announcers, salesmen, and preachers  is merely an extreme example of voice-but-not-real-voice. It serves to  illustrate blatantly what everyone sometimes does: adopt a voice in order to  face an audience. Since their whole vocation consists of trying to sway an  audience with their vocal chords, they are more likely to get trapped in some  of these voices: the stakes are higher for them and they are more likely to try  too hard and then gradually begin to stop hearing the fakeness. Actors, too,  occasionally end up without a solid authenticity in their speech when they are  off-stage, though they are usually more subtle than the heavyhanded salesman.  They have spent so much time trying to control their voice that they no longer  have the knack of just leaving it alone to be itself. But we all adopt less  than authentic voices quite often, especially when the demands of a situation  are great or our resources seem insufficent. If nervousness doesn&#8217;t deaden and  remove all voice it may make us giddy, talkative, or silly (such as at a  party), or we may start sounding solemn and pompous (such as at a job  interview). These nervous ways of speaking may have voice: fluency, energy,  even individuality. They are gears: we don&#8217;t have to stop and choose words  consciously and pause for decisions. But we can easily see that these nervous  voices are not real by a simple observation: if we finally become comfortable  at that party or job interview, we stop sounding so giddy or pompous and start  sounding like our real self. Read my “Help with Writing” and improve your own  writing skills!  <br />  Seek help with writing?  Do not forget about real self. Real voice. I  am on slippery ground here. There are layers and layers. For example, if I am  teaching a class and feel very insecure or shaky, I am liable to compensate  without even thinking about it and adopt a very confident and assured tone of  voice. A student who knows me well might sense something fishy in my voice. And  if, perhaps, things go so badly that I finally decide to stop in the middle of  something I am trying to explain or some activity I am trying to make happen &#8212;  I explain that I can&#8217;t really concentrate on what I&#8217;m doing and say that I am  just going to sit on the sidelines of the discussion &#8212; that student might say,  &quot;Oh, I see now why lie sounded fake, now he sounds more like Peter  Elbow.&quot; But if I kept up that voice or stance or role for very long &#8212;  class after class &#8212; a student who knew me well personally would be able to  say, and correctly too, &quot;Oh, Peter&#8217;s fallen into his helpless, stuck gear  again; that&#8217;s not him, that&#8217;s a tiresome habit. He&#8217;s not daring to be as  opinionated and stubborn and pushy as he really is.&quot; Help with writing is  sought by students who have no time to write their essays.  <br />  Help with writing your essay:  Most people make use of various voices as  they go through life to deal with particular audiences and situations. Many  people speak with artificial sweetness to little children. Many teachers,  administrators, doctors and judges adopt a confident, fatherly, competent tone  of voice to express their authority or responsibility. If we only know them at  work we might say, &quot;That&#8217;s just what John sounds like,&quot; but if he  started talking that way at home his wife might say, &quot;Come off it, John,  you&#8217;re not at work now; don&#8217;t talk to me like I&#8217;m one of your clients.&quot; </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Help with writing resumes:  In the United States there is supposed to be  freedom of expression, and yet there are laws against obscenity. No one can say  what obscenity really is. And is obscene material really harmful? Maybe some  forms of censorship are necessary, but this is just another instance of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Help with writing resumes:  In the United States there is supposed to be  freedom of expression, and yet there are laws against obscenity. No one can say  what obscenity really is. And is obscene material really harmful? Maybe some  forms of censorship are necessary, but this is just another instance of our  country being called free when it is not. <br />  Help with writing resumes:  We should admit that freedom of expression is  not truly realized in the United States, since the censoring of materials which  are considered obscene constitute a definite limitation of this freedom. <br />  Help with writing resumes:  In giving a more focused emphasis to the  paragraph she lost all the voice, breath, and rhythm that had given life to the  first version. <br />  Help with writing resumes:  It&#8217;s not surprising that most people don&#8217;t  get voice into their writing. Writing is so much slower and more troublesome  than speaking. So many more decisions have to be made. You must form each word,  one letter at a time and figure out the spelling. Writing needs punctuation; it  has stricter and less familiar standards of grammar and usage. And in addition  to all the extra rules involved in writing, we feel we&#8217;ll be more harshly  judged if we write something foolish or mistaken than if we just say it:  &quot;It&#8217;s down in black and white.&quot; <br />  Help with writing resumes:  On those speaking occasions when we feel  especially judged -for example during a job interview or when we meet a new  person we want to impress but fear we won&#8217;t &#8212; even our speech is likely to  lose voice: we are likely to speak carefully and even haltingly, choosing our  words guardedly, thinking all the while about whether our words are clear,  correct, and intelligent. If we heard a recording of our speech in that  situation we would probably say that it doesn&#8217;t sound like us or that it sounds  as if we are trying to be someone else or that it doesn&#8217;t sound like a real  person at all. <br />  Help with writing resumes:  Imagine if all our speaking were done on  occasions like that. Or worse yet, if we were graded and judged and told all  our smallest mistakes every time we opened our mouths. We&#8217;d get painfully  awkward and unnatural in speech. For most people, that is how writing is.  They&#8217;ve never written unless required to do so in school, and every mistake on  every piece of writing they&#8217;ve ever done was circled in red. No wonder most  people&#8217;s writing doesn&#8217;t have voice &#8212; doesn&#8217;t sound lively and &quot;like  them&quot; the way their speaking usually does. </p>
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