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  2. Résumé - Wikipedia

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    A résumé or resume (or alternatively resumé), [a] [1] is a document created and used by a person to present their background, skills, and accomplishments. Résumés can be used for a variety of reasons, but most often are used to secure new jobs, whether in the same organization or another.

  3. Drafting (writing) - Wikipedia

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    Drafting is the very first step of the writing process; it gives the writer a base to expand and improve upon their work via later steps. Drafting almost always involves rounds of cumulatively adding onto and expanding a work. The initial complete draft is known as the first draft [5] or rough draft. Typically, 'snapshots' of the draft at ...

  4. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.

  5. List of style guides - Wikipedia

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    A style guide, or style manual, is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication, organization or field. The implementation of a style guide provides uniformity in style and formatting within a document and across multiple documents.

  6. The Freedom Writers Diary - Wikipedia

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    On March 11, 2008, an English teacher at Perry Meridian High School in Indianapolis, Indiana, Connie Heermann, was suspended for a year and a half without pay for using the Freedom Writers Diary in her classroom against the wishes of the school board. [2] [3] Administrators objected to racial slurs and sexual content in portions of the book. [4]

  7. Drafter - Wikipedia

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    Traditional drafter at work A drafter in Portugal in the 1970s, using a drafting machine. A drafter (also draughtsman / draughtswoman in British and Commonwealth English, draftsman / draftswoman, drafting technician, or CAD technician in American and Canadian English) is an engineering technician who makes detailed technical drawings or CAD designs for machinery, buildings, electronics ...

  8. Book design - Wikipedia

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    A basic unit in book design is the page spread. The left page and right page (called verso and recto respectively, in left-to-right language books) are of the same size and aspect ratio, and are centered on the gutter where they are bound together at the spine .

  9. Minimalism (technical communication) - Wikipedia

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    Like Robert E. Horn's work on information mapping, John Carroll's principles of Minimalism were based in part on cognitive studies and learning research at Harvard and Columbia University, by Jerome Bruner, Jerome Kagan, B.F. Skinner, George A. Miller, and others. Carroll argues that training materials should present short task-oriented chunks ...