Oscar Whinge

The Word Factory (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Unquestionably, The Word Factory is the perfect guide to better English Grammar and effortless writing. According to one newspaper report, universities in England had begun to penalise students who employed incorrect grammar in their essays. In South Africa, the analysis of seventy-four thousand short stories found that written work of children was littered with SMS language, American slang, exclamation marks, and references to celebrities. All through my formative years, I had to contend with five different languagesEnglish, Afrikaans, and two other dialects, which for the most part, accounted for my inability to translate thought into words effortlessly and inhibited my willingness to participate in lively social discussions especially in the course of my high school years. However, possessed of determination, I had vowed to overcome that infirmity. My need to succeed at all costs precipitated the memorisation of the entire Pocket Oxford Dictionary, an accomplishment that spanned ten long years, following which a further ten years were spent in acquainting myself with most English phrases, idiomatic expressions, and collecting the data and fully researching it. I decided to name the compilation The Word Factory. The fruits of my efforts, but more specifically the extensive employment of The Word Factory, not only marked my rise onto the podiums as master of ceremonies and public speaker, but had also enabled me to write approximately twenty-five articles to the Cape Argus, Cape Towns pre-eminent newspaper, within the space of two years, with 100 per cent publication rate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Partridge Publishing Africa
• Seitenzahl: 906
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781482860313
• Artikelnr.: 52570569

Autorenporträt

Oscar Whinge was born in South Africa and educated in Cape Town. After a long spell as executive in the retail world, he pursued his dream of becoming a writer- a small hobby that had evolved into a wildfire passion. He eventually worked as a proofreader/editor for university students and freelance writer. Writing under a different name, he had contributed about twenty-five articles to the Cape Argus, Cape Town's pre-eminent newspaper, within the space of eighteen months.