Book publishers usually pay authors a royalty (commission) of 10 to 15% of the books price for each copy sold. ... Poetry is one of the most challenging types of writing and one of the lowest-paying jobs. ... Publishers want poems from the poet's own imagination, language and experience different from modern poetry. - Writers and editors held around 341,000 jobs in 1998 nearly one-third of salaried writers and editors work for newspapers, magazines, and book publishers. ... Most support themselves with a steady income from a second job as well as their w...

• Word Count: 1602
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Gary Paulsen's career has spanned many different jobs. ... He got the job with the help of a false résumé. ... His other jobs include construction worker, engineer, and sailor. ... He was often drunk and had day jobs. ... Paulsen only writes one book at a time; but while he is writing one book, he does research for another. ...

• Word Count: 1730
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

I t was this book that allowed Hinton to attend the University Of Tulsa. ... Both books were selected as Honor Books in the Chicago Tribune Book World's Children's Spring Book Festival. ... All people want to have a good job, make a lot of money, and live a good life. ... The pace of the book is the main reason it won so many awards. ... In conclusion, Hinton does and excellent job of depicting a "diamond in the rough- image in the character of Ponyboy. ...

• Word Count: 1477
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

A book of natural history followed, which he tried unsuccessfully to locate years later for his children (Contemporary Authors, 25). ... "By then I was broke and I got a job in West Texas skinning dead cattle that died from a prolonged drought. ... His next job was bailing hay in New Mexico's Pecos Valley, across the road from Billy the Kid's grave. ... During the mid-1980's, his novels crowded book store racks along with adult Westerns that he hated. ... He had no formal education, spent much of his youth wandering from job to job, and was over forty by the time he publishe...

• Word Count: 1689
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She managed to get the point across as the book made many people of the era confused, mad, and unhappy with the speech. The first section of the book took place at "Oxbridge", which stands for Oxford and Cambridge Universities. ... (p.39) When returning home she finds that women in the work place have the most unimportant jobs of the society and the questions were unanswerable. ... In the final setting of the book, Mary contemplates on the style of writing from both women and men. She pulls a book off the shelve by Mary Carmichael called Life's Adventures. ...

• Word Count: 1454
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

It's not nearly as bad a job as some people think- (Giovanni, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles). ... One of her most famous collection of essays is bound into one book entitled Sacred Cows and other Edibles. ... She is very open about her thoughts in this book. ... One such book is Blues For All The Changes: New Poems. ... She even dedicated a book-Spin a Soft Black Song-to her dog."...

• Word Count: 1670
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The book begins with numerous photographs that are still and without text, forcing the viewer to begin to separate text from pictures. ... This aspect of coequality yet independence is similar the Agee's and Walker's book. ... Barthes job is not to take photographs; he made none in his entire book, yet to act as an observer and try to make the photographs he admires to "speak."" ... Alloula dedicates his book to Barthes and his usage of basic vocabulary. ... Alloula's book encompasses all aspects of the photographic essay by portraying an independence of text and photos but ...

• Word Count: 1891
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

This novel is about two lower class farm hands that travel from town to town attempting to find a steady job. ... Steinbeck was able to relate to these characters because before he found success as an author, he traveled across America from California to New York looking for jobs (O'Connor, pp25-31). ... Steinbeck believed that a book (the Bible) was much realer than experience (O'Connor, p16). ... Throughout the entirety of the book, there are numerous references to God, Jesus, Moses, and Biblical stories. ... It is apparent that this novel reflects John Steinbeck's passion and...

• Word Count: 1509
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The book begins with the divorce of her parents, and Maya and her brother Bailey moving from St. ... She has to come to terms with the feelings and issues of being a teenager, getting a job, finishing school, watching her brother pull away to find freedom, and an unexpected pregnancy. ... She booked a downtown hotel room and wrote from six till noon on weekdays. ... I would strongly recommend this book to any mature reader. ... I remember Farewell to Manzanar being a very boring book, which I wasn't interested in. ...

• Word Count: 1549
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In his book Letters to a Young Doctor, Richard Selzer addresses some aspects of our own mortality and vulnerability that are not "pretty" to think about. ... Most of Selzer's essays in this book are cases he has had or advice he has for young surgeons. ... One hundred twenty-six pages into the book, however, the reader comes upon a very different essay entitled "The Slug." ... Both of these essays do an excellent job of presenting things to the reader that are potentially revolting in a way that makes them fascinating. ...

• Word Count: 1358
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The narrator is again a writer who, in this case, is working on a book called "The Day the World Ended", about the bombing of Hiroshima. ... He made this very clear in his book, "Breakfast of Champions". ... The movie did a very fine job replicating the book's plot and storyline. ... One thing that is interesting about "Slaughter House Five" is the way the book is put together. The events that happen in the book do not happen in chronilogical order. ...

• Word Count: 1839
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Supporting himself by freelance writing and various temporary jobs, he spent the next five years coming to terms with how education had altered his life. ... Jennefer Hernandez There, are great books that Rodriguez has written such as Hunger of Memory his first book published in 1982. ... In this book he offers him self as an example of the long labor of change about his loneliness, but also his triumph. In his other book, Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father publish in 1992, Rodriguez explores the dilemmas of ethnicity and cultural identity. It is composed as a philosop...

• Word Count: 1466
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Conrad Aiken does a fine job of explaining how Hemingway could make even the most complex issues seem somewhat simple. ... The Sun Also Rises is an informal book that on the surface is relaxed (drinking, partying, sex, etc.) and beneath the surface is a much more, satisfying, in-depth story (Jake's inability to have sex, love between characters, outlooks on life and morals). Everything in the book moves in unison. ...

• Word Count: 2253
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Being educated gets you a decent job and taken seriously. ... There are jobs out there that give employment to those that aren't literate but there aren't many jobs out there that do that and the pay isn't that wonderful. "We were poor by most standards, but one of my parents usually managed to find some minimum-wage job or another, which made us middle-class by reservation standards" (Alexie, 15). ... She doesn't want me working at some minimum-wage job just to make ends meet like her and my father have to. ... In Malcolm X's essay "Learning to Read&quo...

• Word Count: 1991
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

That year I managed to read the entire "Ramona " book series. ... One of the books was called "The Giver "; it was a long book with very small print, but I managed to understand it, and passed the AR test with flying colors. ... From a distance I could see him giving me two thumbs up and mouthing the words "good job ". ...

• Word Count: 1603
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Language is an integral part of our society; it uses a series of systems to convey meaning, thus setting up a discourse community. The surrounding environment plays a major role in our language as a social practice. Language is a form of communication involving an organized system of symbols whethe...

• Word Count: 1333
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This defense is evident throughout the book. ... He did a good job when he was in high school of taking care of his younger siblings but, he did not know how to be a father to his own child, or a husband to his wife. ...

• Word Count: 1321
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School