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  2. Blurb - Wikipedia

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    Gelett Burgess c. 1910. In the US, the history of the blurb is said to begin with Walt Whitman's collection, Leaves of Grass.In response to the publication of the first edition in 1855, Ralph Waldo Emerson sent Whitman a congratulatory letter, including the phrase "I greet you at the beginning of a great career": the following year, Whitman had these words stamped in gold leaf on the spine of ...

  3. Gelett Burgess - Wikipedia

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    The word "blurb", meaning a short description of a book, film, or other product written for promotional purposes, was coined by Burgess in 1906, in attributing the dust jacket of his book, Are You a Bromide?, to a "Miss Belinda Blurb" depicted "in the act of blurbing". His definition of "blurb" is "a flamboyant advertisement; an inspired ...

  4. Presentation slide - Wikipedia

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    The most popular pieces of slide producing software are Microsoft PowerPoint, Prezi, Apple Keynote, Google Slides and ClearSlide. [3] PowerPoint is currently the most popular slides presentation program. LibreOffice Impress is a FOSS alternative.

  5. Microsoft PowerPoint - Wikipedia

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    A stable binary format (called a .ppt file, like all earlier binary formats) that was shared as the default in PowerPoint 97 through PowerPoint 2003 for Windows, and in PowerPoint 98 through PowerPoint 2004 for Mac (that is, in PowerPoint versions 8.0 through 11.0) was finally created.

  6. PPT - Wikipedia

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    .ppt, the file format used by Microsoft PowerPoint presentation software; Parts-per notation for parts-per-trillion (more common) or parts-per-thousand (less common) PerlPowerTools, a revitalized of the classic Unix command set in pure Perl; Positive partial transpose, a criterion used in quantum mechanics

  7. Paratext - Wikipedia

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    In literary interpretation, paratext is material that surrounds a published main text (e.g., the story, non-fiction description, poems, etc.) supplied by the authors, editors, printers, and publishers. These added elements form a frame for the main text, and can change the reception of a text or its interpretation by the public.

  8. Bibliometrics - Wikipedia

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    Bibliometrics is the application of statistical methods to the study of bibliographic data, especially in scientific and library and information science contexts, and is closely associated with scientometrics (the analysis of scientific metrics and indicators) to the point that both fields largely overlap.

  9. Literature review - Wikipedia

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    A literature review is an overview of previously published works on a particular topic. The term can refer to a full scholarly paper or a section of a scholarly work such as books or articles. Either way, a literature review provides the researcher /author and the audiences with general information of an existing knowledge of a particular topic.

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