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The ChatGPT-4 Codex: A Fiction Writer's Companion

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Report copyright infringementby Zane Wilder (Author)Struggling with writer's block? See how ChatGPT-4 can become your source of endless inspiration. Wondering how to integrate AI into your daily writing routine? Discover how ChatGPT-4 enhances writing consistency and quality. As a seasoned author of over 16 books and a tech enthusiast, I invite you to explore the uncharted territories of AI-assisted storytelling. Discover answers to questions like these: Does ChatGPT-4 truly streamline the c...

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Gibson (Author)"The Importance of Storytelling: When a Person Becomes a Brand" takes you on a compelling journey into the power of storytelling and its transforming impact on our lives, revealing the fundamental relationship between personal narratives and the emergence of individuals as brands. Whether you're an entrepreneur, marketer, or leader, this book is a guide to harnessing storytelling's power. It shows you how to captivate hearts and minds, leav...

Writing Serial Fiction In the Real World 2.0

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Report copyright infringementby Robert C. Worstell (Author)You're About to Be Invited to the Toughest Adventure in Your Writing Life.Many don't return. Fame and fortune are rare. Challenges may be impossible to solve...The reason I wrote this for you was because I couldn't find a decent ebook on all of Amazon for this subject. The two I could find there were pathetic (and if you think this one is another, perhaps you should be writing your own -- jump right in, the water's fine...)So I went o...

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Report copyright infringementby S. Dhanavandan (Author)"Virtual Libraries: Innovation to Integration" is a book that explores the evolution of libraries in the digital age. It delves into the transformative impact of digital technologies on traditional library systems, tracing their historical roots and highlighting how virtual libraries have emerged as pioneering platforms offering unparalleled access to resources and services. Key themes include digital transformation, innovative services, ...

Text Styles: Consistent Work Flow from Word Processor to Page Layout

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Report copyright infringementby Henrietta Flores (Author)Working with the Text Styles that are built into the software we already use, we can simplify and speed up the process of turning a manuscript into a completed book or document. This guide is aimed at writers, editors, and designers who work freelance or in small organizations that don't have the resources to acquire beginning-to-end publishing systems. Using text styles removes the ambiguity of the intentions of writers and content cre...

Secrets Every Author Should Know: Indie Publishing Basics

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Report copyright infringementby Maggie McVay Lynch (Author)Frustrated with the plethora of conflicting information on how to self-publish? Wouldn't it be wonderful to sit down with someone who has already made the mistakes, done the analysis, and will provide you the short cuts--the secrets about the things that work? Now you have that chance with the Career Author Secrets series.Indie Publishing (Self Publishing) has changed dramatically in the past five years. There are now new, easier tool...

How to Format an eBook: No Mistakes Publishing, Volume Ii

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Report copyright infringementby Giacomo Giammatteo (Author)Beautiful eBook formatting is not expensive; in fact, it's more reasonable than you think. For years, I paid handsomely for someone to format my eBooks, not to mention I had to wait a week or two to get it done; now, I do it myself. I save money and I get it done in one night.Aren't your readers worth more than a plain-vanilla eBook thrown together by an automated conversion system? Don't they deserve the best? Number of...

SELF-PUBLISHING--the professional way!: 5-Steps from RAW MANUSCRIPT to PUBLISHING

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Report copyright infringementby Cheryl Antao-Xavier (Author)A comprehensive guide to self-publishing, with 5 essential steps to publish a book the professional way! Industry-expert with 30 years experience gives tips, do's and don'ts on how to prepare, edit, design, proofread your manuscript and upload it to print-on-demand. 5 steps from raw manuscript to published book. Must read for writers of all levels . This book is written for writers: who want to self-publish who want a professionally...

Audio For Authors Large Print: Audiobooks, Podcasting, And Voice Technologies

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Report copyright infringementby Joanna Penn (Author)Do you want to create, publish and market your audiobooks? Are you ready to use podcasting to grow your author brand and reach more readers with your books? Audiobooks are the fastest-growing segment in publishing with double-digit growth in markets across the world. Podcasting has gone mainstream with listeners consuming audio on mobile phones and in-car devices, as well as through smart speakers. Advancements in voice technology continue ...

Self Publishing in the Digital Age - An Author's Guide

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Mortimer Hodder (Author)Self publishing presents an exciting opportunity for authors to produce, at little or no cost, books in both printed and electronic formats. Modern technology means that publishing is no longer the exclusive domain of large publishing companies; the advent of print on demand books, e-readers, and internet marketing has had a significant impact on how books are produced and sold. This book explores the practicalities of self publis...

Semantics in Text Processing: Step 2008 Conference Proceedings

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Report copyright infringementby Johan Bos (Editor), Rodolfo Delmonte (Editor)Research in robust open-domain text processing has seen considerable progress in the last couple of decades. It is probably fair to say that language technology tools have reached satisfactory performance at the level of syntactic processing. Therefore, it is timelier than ever to consider deep semantic processing as a serious task in wide-coverage natural language processing. This is a step that requires the integra...

Crosswalking: Processing MARC in XML Environments with MARC4J

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Report copyright infringementby Bas Peters (Author)This concise book is for library programmers who want to learn to use MARC4J to process bibliographic data. MARC4J is an open source software library for working with MARC, MARCXML and related bibliographic standards in Java. The library is designed to bridge the gap between MARC and XML. Crosswalking provides useful information for both developers learning about MARC4J for the first time and developers returning for reference and more advanc...

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Report copyright infringementby John Mair (Editor), Richard Lance Keeble (Editor)With contributions by: Peter Barron, Director, External Affairs Europe, Middle East and Africa, Google, former Editor of Newsnight Dan Bennett, PhD student, War Studies Department, King's College, London Teodora Beleaga, student at Coventry University Paul Bradshaw, Visiting Professor, City University, and Andy Brightwell, blogger Sean Carson, MA Journalism student, Coventry University Denis Chabrol, publisher an...

Exploring the Relation between Biomechanical and Macrosocial Factors: Integrationism meets Neuroscience and Information Systems

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Report copyright infringementby Lars Taxén (Author)The papers included in this volume are in one way or another the result of interweaving Activity Domain Theory with the Integrational Linguistics developed by Oxford linguist Roy Harris. They provide important clues as to how Integrationism, neuroscience, and Information Systems can be beneficially interrelated. Number of Pages: 380 Dimensions: 0.78 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: November 01, 2020 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jill Anne Morris (Author)In THE INTERNET AS A GAME, Jill Anne Morris proposes that by defining internet arguments as games, we can analyze ad hominem and ad baculum arguments coming from online mobs and trolls using procedural rhetoric. Building upon and extending Ian Bogost's definition of procedural rhetoric and Jesper Juul's definition of games, Morris extends the usage of the term into human systems and groups that have proceduralized their arguments online...

Affinity Publisher for Ads and Covers: Full-Color Edition

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Report copyright infringementby M. L. Humphrey (Author)If you're going to self-publish, it helps to be able to create your own ad images and book covers. Even if you want to pay for a fancy cover for your main title there are going to be times when you want to have a loss leader short story or where you want to have a banner image for your Facebook page. And it isn't going to make sense to pay a designer for that type of work. (Not unless you're richer than most authors or doing really, reall...

Affinity Publisher for Fiction Layouts: Full-Color Edition

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Report copyright infringementby M. L. Humphrey (Author)Most self-publishers focus their time and attention on publishing ebooks. And when they do publish in print they tend to use either Word or Vellum or the print option provided by D2D.For those who want to move beyond the constraints of these choices, Affinity Publisher is one of the best options available. It's a one-time purchase software that allows for a fully-customized print layout. The only limitation is the skill of the user.This b...

Affinity Publisher for Basic Book Covers: Full-Color Edition

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Report copyright infringementby M. L. Humphrey (Author)Sometimes you just want to put together a basic book cover for a lead magnet or a short story related to your main series. Or maybe, like me, you have the patience of a gnat and don't want to wait six months to have a cover designed by someone else when the book is ready to go NOW.Or maybe money is tight and you're trying to see if that book you wrote has any potential without bankrupting yourself.Or you're ready to put that book out in p...

Young Adult Fiction Social Media Prompts: 350+ Prompts for Authors (For Blogs, Facebook, and Twitter)

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Report copyright infringementby Buzztrace (Created by), Roland Lomeli (Editor), Scott La Counte (Editor)Writing a 60,000 word book? Piece of cake. Writing a 140 character tweet? Awkward silence. On the surface social media seems easy--just say what's on your mind! But saying what's on your mind rarely leads to more followers, and frequently even leads to unfollows. The creative minds behind the audience-building online social software BuzzTrace created this book of over 350 prompts just for Y...

Social Media Prompts for Authors: 400+ Prompts for Authors (For Blogs, Facebook, and Twitter)

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Teaching Internet Basics: The Can-Do Guide

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Report copyright infringementby Joel A. Nichols (Author)Perfect for public librarians, instructional librarians, technology and digital resource specialists, and library training specialists, this book is an essential resource for digital literacy instruction. According to Pew research published in 2013, two-thirds of public libraries report that technology training is important in their communities, and that 86.5 percent of public libraries offer classes on general Internet use. Despite the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Rubenstein (Author)Having a clear, attractive, and easy-to-navigate website that allows users to quickly find what they want is essential for any organization--including a library. This workbook makes website creation easy--no HTML required. This book teaches all of the essentials for designing and creating a simple, professional-looking website for any library. By using cut-and-paste templates from familiar software programs, readers can create complex...

Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2014

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Parks (Editor), Brian Bailie (Editor), James Seitz (Editor)THE BEST OF THE INDEPENDENT RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION JOURNALS 2014 represents the result of a nationwide conversation-beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition-to select essays that showcase the innovative and transformative work now being published in the field's independent journals. Representing both print a...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Rice (Editor)FLORIDA proposes Florida as a nexus of various contested moments, ideas, concepts, and relations. In the age of networks, it is not enough to only think of computerized, economic, or labor intensive systems as networks. As Bruno Latour writes, networks are represented in ways other than graphic visualizations or visualizations of spokes and connections. Spaces, too, are networks, and specific spaces, such as Florida, are networks in need of ex...

Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2013

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Parks (Editor), Brian Bailie (Editor), Heather Christiansen (Editor)THE BEST OF THE INDEPENDENT RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION JOURNALS 2013 represents the result of a nationwide conversation-beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition-to select essays that showcase the innovative and transformative work now being published in the field's independent journals. Representing bot...

Suasive Iterations: Rhetoric, Writing, and Physical Computing

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Report copyright infringementby David M. Rieder (Author)New Media Theory Series Edited by Byron HawkIn Suasive Iterations, Rieder argues that in order to engage persuasively with audiences today, digital rhetors and (distant) writers must break through the screen-based looking glass of the PC era that persists in our fields. The PC era normed us to the idea that the virtual realm of the computer is separate and distinct from our "real," everyday world. Yet the new, post-PC era of physical com...

Play/Write: Digital Rhetoric, Writing, Games

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas Eyman (Editor), Andréa D. Davis (Editor)ELECTRACY AND TRANSMEDIA STUDIES, Edited by Jan Rune Holmevik and Cynthia Haynes PLAY/WRITE: DIGITAL RHETORIC, WRITING, GAMES presents a wide range of approaches to digital video games as sites of composition and rhetorical performance. The chapters in PLAY/WRITE examine writing-both textual and multimodal-and rhetorical activity that takes place within games as player-game and player-player interactions, as well ...

Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2012

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Parks (Editor), Brian Bailie (Editor), Heather Christiansen (Editor)THE BEST OF THE INDEPENDENT RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION JOURNALS 2012 represents the result of a nationwide conversation-beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition-to select essays that showcase the innovative and transformative work now being published in the field's independent journals. Representing bot...

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Report copyright infringementby Gregory L. Ulmer (Author)NEW MEDIA THEORY Series Editor, Byron Hawk 327 pages, including photographs, bibliography, and index. (c) 2012 by Parlor Press AVATAR EMERGENCY is Gregory L. Ulmer's fourth book featuring the EmerAgency, an online virtual consultancy for the digital age. This time his point of departure is Paul Virilio's Generalized Accident from which he develops and theorizes the new concepts of Flash Reason, and specifically Avatar, which serves as t...

Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action: Audio-Visual Rhetoric for Writing Teachers

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Report copyright infringementby Scott K. Halbritter (Author), Bump Halbritter (Author)NEW MEDIA THEORY SERIES EDITOR: BYRON HAWK MICS, CAMERAS, SYMBOLIC ACTION: AUDIO-VISUAL RHETORIC FOR WRITING TEACHERS addresses the current technological challenges and opportunities of writing teachers through a conceptualization of writing and reading that could not have been imagined by many writing teachers at the turn of the twenty-first century. While MICS, CAMERAS, SYMBOLIC ACTION looks forward to eme...

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Ready to Wear: A Rhetoric of Wearable Computers and Reality-Shifting Media

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Report copyright infringementby Isabel Pedersen (Author)NEW MEDIA THEORY, SERIES EDITOR: BYRON HAWK READY TO WEAR: A RHETORIC OF WEARABLE COMPUTERS AND REALITY-SHIFTING MEDIA is a book about the future but geared to the present. More and more, we are asked to adopt new or future technologies before we ever see, touch, or experience them. This rhetoric of innovation and adoption goes beyond commercial advertising. Emergent or disruptive technologies are circulated and explored in social media,...