Posts Tagged ‘definition’

How to understand the financial pages

Alexander Davidson at Times Online has posted an article on some important aspects and definitions on financial. It should give you enough special terms to understand financial pages in the newspaper. Pretty useful:

… Business-to-consumer

This describes a business model where the company provides goods or services directly to the public. Within e-commerce, it is the least proven model. This type of internet company must buy items from producers and store them… » Continue

January 26 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: definition, finance, Money | no comments»

Writer’s Block: A Definition by Example

Michael Bracken has a pretty good definition up on what is writer’s block. By reading some definitions, it pretty much gives readers some good indications on how to overcome the situation. Several good examples include:

Writer’s Block is a “dearth of ideas, a state of self-dissatisfaction, and an inability to organize” (Polking 434);
Writer’s Block is self-conscious about the writing situation because he has failed to do any “preliminary work such as

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September 5 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: definition, writing | no comments»