While in college, he got a degree in English and creative writing.
The Taiping Uprising has inspired an enormous literature in Chinese and a much smaller but still significant amount of writing in English.
Writing in English-language newspaper China Daily, columnist Huang Hung said the smash-hit film mirrored China's rules on forced eviction.
Any woman writing in English is eligible for the award, regardless of her nationality, country of residence, age or subject matter.
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He was known for his passion for writing in English about Wales.
In the new single level tests being piloted in English reading, English writing and mathematics, the questions are all pitched at a certain level of understanding.
Random House's The Vintage Book of Indian Writing, 1947-1997, co-edited by Rushdie, states unequivocally (and, for some, controversially) that writing in English far surpasses that in India's other languages.
Carolingian script -- being much simpler, cleaner and easier to read than Gothic -- suited the Continental Humanists' purposes, and was popular enough to become the next step in the evolution of English writing.
MacKenzie Bezos graduated in 1992 as an English major with a certificate in creative writing.
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Brian-Anthony Garrison is a student at NC State University, majoring in English with a language, writing and rhetoric concentration.
The two of them had discussed what Anglo-Welsh poetry - writing about Wales in English - actually meant.
Last year's figures showed 77% of 11-year-olds had reached the required standard in English - comprising both reading and writing - up from 75% in 2003.
But Mr. Hurwitz who double-majored in English and theology at Georgetown University before his break writing for the sitcom "The Golden Girls" in the early 1990s just can't help himself.
In subjects such as English and history, the exams will test essay writing, while in maths and science there will be a greater focus on quantitative problem solving.
He was determined to keep the best English writing alive and well in India.
At age 11, one fifth of children fail to reach the level expected in English (Level 4) - although achievement in reading is better than in writing.
"What it really does is make political corruption a much bigger issue than it has been" in the mayor's race, while upping pressure on Cuomo and other state leaders to do more to thwart it, said Paul Moses, a Brooklyn College English professor and former journalist who specializes in writing about New York City government and politics.
Examiners will struggle too, to produce a single test that measures the same level of ability in children of different ages. (In music tests all candidates for a given grade play the same pieces: in an English test, quite different reading texts and writing topics would suit an eight-year-old than an 11-year-old.) The changes might even have the perverse effect of making children sit more tests.
Probably it is useful to be English to appreciate that much in Mr Powell's writing is satire.
He studied chemistry and English at City College and had a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Iowa.
Writing should be well organised and in paragraphs, using standard English.
Writing in his blog, Mr Royston applauded a recent podcast conversation in English now gaining a measure of internet fame.
And in 2011, the Regents voted to de-emphasize the writing portion of the Regents English Exam.
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Comparing dyslexics in various countries, they found that English-speaking dyslexics experienced far more problems with reading and writing than the others.
Andrew McCarthy plays David, an American reporter and would-be fiction writer secretly writing a novel on the Red Brigades while working for an English-language newspaper in Rome.
In addition to the essay section, the Writing section of the SAT tests the deviation between standard written English and the way we actually speak the language.
Detainees are offered classes in literacy (Arabic and Pashto), English instruction, art, and "life skills" such as resume writing.
English must be your first language, as that's what you'll be writing for us in.
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Previous to that, the only writing that I had done was for my own pleasure or when I was pursuing an English degree in college.
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