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Post edited: Added discussion point about differentiating "software" and "tools" |
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| Edit | Post #276643 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Hierarchical tags are now available That's an awesome feature and I see quite a few tag families that could profit from being officially recognized as such. Here are some more points that might be relevant to a discussion about this feature: 1. We have some pretty broad tags that might either need quite a few children or might poss... (more) |
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A: Telephone Conversations Be sure to keep the time that the other characters keeps listening short or use the time for your character to think or analyze other things in the environment. In reality sometimes phone calls can very well have a few minutes of what I've heard being called "social grunting" here in Germany - sounds... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #275966 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: How do I approach rewriting an entire user guide in an agile environment? A user guide is an important result related to your final product and should be treated as such. If the software that is being detailed is in development you you obviously can't know everything that will happen exactly in advance, but you can treat this like you would treat writing a book: - star... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #39558 |
The newest question seems to be nearly a week old, so I'd say you are probably right thinking that the people who mainly ask questions aren't here at the moment. We would need some form of advertisement for this site. Seems like we are back at the point where things like [contests](https://writing.me... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39551 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Choice of words on writing Having your own "voice" shine through your writing is important in order to make your reader remember you. If you read through your favourite books and favourite blogs you will find that every author has their own quirks. Some words or some phrases they prefer to use, some way to structure their sent... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39550 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: How do I get beta readers? Family and friends are not ideal beta readers, not only because they are more interested in preserving their relationship with you personally, but also because they are not necessarily your target group and likely not professionals that know what to look out for. You need people that know what th... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39459 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Punctuation assistance with complicated list of titles during a formal greeting Using a colon in your writing is a difficult choice when it comes to fictional writing. For academic writing it's quite easy to remember. A colon is used before a list and that's about it. You could also use a colon after a full sentence to add something that clarifies that sentence, but that looks v... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39458 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Is it acceptable in academic writing to write "their very self" or "very + [noun]"? Academic writing is supposed to be formal, but there can be big differences between different fields of academic writing. A technical field like Computer Science will often focus on being concise and have strict styles for formatting source code. Fields like Psychology will focus a lot more on the me... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39457 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Is there a "right" way to interpret a novel? If so, how do we make sure our novel is interpreted correctly? Have you ever done a group project in school, university or at your work place? Making sure that everyone is exactly on the same page regarding what you are doing and how you are supposed to do that is nearly impossible once you have a handful of people discussing something. In face-to-face meetings ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39426 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Handwriting speed #Finding tips on writing fast You can find much information on the internet about increasing your handwriting speed, but when searching for such information you should be careful about potential downsides that might not be properly explained. Writing unnaturally does not only feel bad while writin... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39425 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: What are the top most important key elements for a computer game story? When thinking about the story of a videogame it is important to first think about how important the story really is to your audience. Sure, a better story will in general be better, but if it's taking too much time or it's feeling strange because you are not a goof story writer it might just distract... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39395 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: APA In text citations, with the same first author and one other author with the same surname Both versions are correct and as long as you keep it as short as necessary to distinguish both authors it's fine. For example take a look at some similar examples from "What’s in a Name? Authors With the Same Surname" from APA Style Blog (27.02.2018): >###Same Surname Within a Reference >Refere... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #39391 |
@ArtOfCode Thanks :D (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39391 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Alert box when clicking "Delete" on an answer says "Are you sure you want to delete this *question*?" Out of curiosity I clicked the "delete" link on one of my answers and the alert box that pops up asks whether I want to delete this "question", whereas it should ask whether I want to delete this "answer". Or if the text needs to be the same for questions and answers it could instead for example say ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #39390 |
Do you have any experience with them or why would you check them out first / recommend checking them out first? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39377 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: The excessive use of 'and' If you read closely you can very often identify certain words and phrases that authors prefer to use. Those will be used far more often than in writing from other people that you read. Sometimes it's just a subconscious feeling that tells you who the author is, for example if you are often reading te... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #39372 |
The question to ask yourself is: "Why should this thing be important to my target audience and what makes *my* side better at that thing than the *other* side?" If you are bent on rebellion you could change that a bit to "and why is the *other* side so bad at it that we need to do something ourselves... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #39372 |
Do you already have formulated the "ideal" you mention and what specific group you are targeting? You are basically looking for standard rhetorical devices, though with a focus on stuff that has been used in previous decades and centuries as propaganda - or just plain advertisement these days. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39293 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Writing slurred speech To show that somebody is drunk you should add descriptions about what the person is doing and how the environment, especially other people are reacting to it. Staggering through the bar and nearly falling over the other guests, someone needing to support your character to get them outside, the head r... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39270 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Ending a line of dialogue with "?!": Allowed or obnoxious? It's acceptable, but should be reserved for rare occasions where it's absolutely necessary to keep the flow of the scene going. Overuse of this type of punctutation would indeed make your writing look childish. As other answers have already outlined it's something that's becoming more common, but is ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #39259 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: How should I document a database schema? While the other answers already mention tools to create graphical presentations of your tables / columns and ways to add short information to that, for example by creating an HTML table with an empty column that you can fill with additional information, it's important to remember what people are look... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #39219 |
Hello World! :D (more) |
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A: Is this kind of description not recommended? This reads completely normal to me and I don't really see anything wrong with it. If "tall" is what identifies the person in this scene it would be normal to use that if the narrator doesn't know the name of the person or wants to emphasize this person being "tall" for whatever reason, such as a sma... (more) |
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