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Ghent (BE), Valentin Descamps - You learn Dutch, but you still have trouble writing without fail or in a beautiful Dutch well cared for?

Or are you a Dutch foreign language teacher and your students still need a boost to write correctly? Santa has thought of you!

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Text editing: a handbook for (language) students and professionals

Text editingIf you are a language professional working with the written word, you are likely to be producing or revising large amounts of written text on a daily basis – translations, subtitles, terminological records and study materials, for example. If your goal is to communicate effectively, even if you do not strictly earn your living with language work, text editing is a skill you might want to polish up.

Indeed, effective communication is what makes meaningful human interaction possible. Kris Van de Poel, W. A. M. Carstens and John Linnegar, a trio of seasoned linguists and language trainers, firmly believe this, which is why they teamed up to write Text editing. A handbook for students and practitioners.

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Belgian Poetry Slam Championship on 15 november in Brussels

Belgian Poetry Slam Championship, november 15, 2014, BrusselsSascha Reunes and Simon Den Haerynck won the qualifying round of the Belgian Poetry Slam Championship in Antwerp last Saturday.

'Slamscenes and open mics are really an artistic outlet for many young people. They express their opinion in a very open and are often particularly literary way, and it is surprising how attentively they listen to each other.' That's what An Leenders, director of Creatief Schrijven (Creative Writing), based in Antwerp, had to say about the qualifying rounds for the Belgian Poetry Slam Championship. A Poetry Slam is 'a boxing match with words' and the genre is becoming increasingly popular.

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Schrijfdag 2014 (29/3, Ghent)

Schrijfdag 2014 in GentOn saturday, March 29, 2014 is in Ghent the seventh edition of the Schrijfdag place, the annual literary climax for anyone who would like writes, wants to write better, more wants to write or to discover more about the write and uitgeefproces.

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Editor of Publishing OF IN

For the drafting of texts for its French-speaking expenditure is Publishing Of IN (Wommelgem) looking for external freelance editors with French as their mother tongue.

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Creative Writing Projectmedewerker at asbl (vacancy)

Creative Writing asbl (Antwerp) searches for a mid-term projectmedewerker.

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Creative writing with Kristien Hemmerechts

Creative writing with Kristien HemmerechtsWriter Kristien Hemmerechts teaches English literature at the KU Leuven - HUBrussel and creative writing at the Herman Teirlinck Institute in Antwerp. In February and March 2014 gives them four zaterdagvoormiddagen creative writing classes to the KU Leuven - HUBrussel for everyone already than not professionally with the letter of the texts.

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Gather Evidence learning letter (Brussels, 15/10)

Gather Evidence learning letterEnter your students a write job, than shooting the most immediately in the pin. They are then so busy with the letter, that they have very little to learn. They are all the time to write, but they learn very little.

How do you pick up the teaching students not only to get a good text letter but also learn how they write a good text? Gather Evidence learning letter - first look and listen, then write - offers a solution. The KU Leuven organizes a studienamiddag HUBrussel on its campus.

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Hear, see and write (manual)

Hear, see and write (manual)By publishing that Keure (Bruges) is the book 'Hear, see and write' appeared. The book is a 'schrijfboek for case workers' and is the basis of Jan Deans, Katleen Daenens, Els Maton, Annemie Pelemans, Tom Roofthooft, Mark Van Bogaert, Katrien Great and Chris Willocx.

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`An offer for young people with schrijfambitie missing currently in Flanders`

Plea for 'academy' for young people with schrijfambitie'It is a great pity that young people with schrijfambitie currently almost anywhere. Learn playing an instrument or learning dance, they can learn at a college. But young people who want to publish a book, should that job creating alone.' That said An Leenders, director of Creative Writing asbl, yesterday on the tenth birthday of Creative Writing in Antwerp. They also called for a training Creative Writing at colleges and universities: 'In the Anglo-saxon world are very popular and that training they bring great writers continue.'

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Project Leader Parol! (Vacancy)

Creative Writing asbl (Antwerp) searches for a mid-term project.

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The Vermeersch: new font with more than 5100 characters

The Vermeersch: new font with more than 5000 charactersIn the museum Boerhave in Leiden is may 19, 2013 the exhibition 'literate & learned' about 330 years typography to the Leidens publishing Vermeersch.

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Ten editors (of ten different publishers) write together The schrijfbijbel

By publishing A is the book B of author C appeared. So we usually announce the edition of a new book. Not so this time. 'The schrijfbijbel' is not issued by a publisher, but appears on the initiative of a crowdfundingplatform. It is worth Also reigns in this book ten editors of ten different publishers their knowledge about writing a book parts.

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The form of the text (book)

The form of the textBIS Publishers (Amsterdam) and LannooCampus (Leuven) is 'The form of text' of Jan Middendorp appeared. This book shows how the form of the text can help the attention of readers and viewers to hold, control and to manipulate.

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Specifically Autobiography write (training)

Specifically Autobiography write (training)Creative Writing asbl (Antwerp) and The Core (Stourbridge) to organize this autumn together a training specifically autobiography write. The training is spread over five nights in november and december.

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Academic letter for researchers (new book)

Academic letter for researchers (new book)By publishing Acco (Leuven) is the book 'Academic Writing. A Resource for Researchers' appeared. The author is Kristin Blanpain (KU Leuven). It is a textbook for (junior and senior) researchers who English texts to write or edit.

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Tekstredactie: publisher builds seminar around book launch

Tekstredactie: publisher builds seminar around book launchOn friday, september 21 organises publishing Academic & Scientific Publishers (ASP, Brussels) in Antwerp a seminar on tekstredactie. The result is the publication and presentation of a new book about tekstredactie: 'Text editing. A handbook for students and of'. The authors are Kris Of the Poel, Wannie Carstens and John Linnegar. What is tekstredactie? How does the now begun look like? And how do you pick up as a text editor so that the message is effectively transferred?

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Also reviewers and correctors to `i` more often than `he word`

Reviewers also let 'i' is more than 'he word'Taalonderzoekers of the University of Antwerp (UA) had previously shown that the familiarity with a homofoon (is/word) and the frequency of that homofoon (is 65 times more common than word) are important aspects in the letter of dt-errors and to read your own schrijfsels; you read easily on your own dt-errors, because the most often prevents the written re-legislated. Now according to research from Ellen Danckaert (UA) that homofoondominantie read also aware of others in the texts on possible misspellings plays an important role.

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Seminar for schrijfdocenten

Seminar for schrijfdocentenCreative Writing asbl (Antwerp) on friday, september 28 organises a seminar for schrijfdocenten in Sint Niklaas. This seminar is intended for schrijfdocenten that inspiration and impetus for the schrijfpraktijk search.

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Exercises in creative writing

Exercises in creative writingThe Best of the Dutch schrijfdocente Hogeweg is in publishing YOU2pi the book 'exercises in creative writing' appeared. This oefenboek is intended for anyone who wants to write better stories.

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Dale Dictee on size: new service for businesses and organizations

Dale Dictee on size: new service for businesses and organizationsDale Woordenboekenuitgeverij introduces a new service for businesses and organizations: the Van Dale Dictee tailored, as a form of company meetings and organization events. Just a fun activity with a little competition and humor to create taalbewustzijn in your organization? Or just when you thought that you had everything: the dictee as teambuildingactiviteit?

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Schrijfdag is the inspiratiemoment for prospective writers

Schrijfdag is the inspiratiemoment for prospective writersThe fifth edition of the Schrijfdag takes place this year on saturday, May 5 in Mechelen. The Schrijfdag is an initiative of Creative Writing asbl, abutment for anyone who may not let the letter. The Schrijfdag in Flanders is a better network and inspiratiemoment for all those who like to write

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Write for the screen (training)

Write for the screen (training)The Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels organizes a training in april 'Write for the screen'. In this training, the techniques to good web scriptwriter to write to bid.

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New training to schrijfdocent

New training to schrijfdocentCreative Writing (Antwerp) start in January 2012 with a new schrijfdocentenopleiding. It is a training of a year and a half, for whom itself as schrijfdocent will want to get. The participants In this training acquire knowledge, skills, and teaches music didactical methodology people to learn creative writing and to accompany them in their literary monotone.

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State wants new debate about the benefits and importance of correct games

State SpellingrapportThe spellingvaardigheid of young adults actually downhill rapidly or it is but an alleged problem?

However, we have examined and we know it is not, says the Dutch State. The problem is that there is too little hard data are available to answer the question correctly. Without large-scale, long-term research can you actually say very little about. And so we recommend such research. Meanwhile we propose a debate on the usefulness and the need for correct spelling. That is the summary of a new report by the Dutch State on the (alleged) problem of the deterioration of the spellingvaardigheid.

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What every writer should know but can never find somewhere

What every writer should know but can never find somewhere'What every writer should know but can never find somewhere' is the subtitle of the book 'Texts drafting', a taaladviesboek of the basis of Wim Daniels, issued by Publishing Unieboek / The Spectrum.

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Basic Course screenwriting competition conducted

Basic Course screenwriting competition conductedThe Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels organizes a new basic course screenwriting competition conducted this autumn. How can you use creative techniques to develop a story and characters? What is a good step-by-step guide to writing a scenario? How do you build tension on in your story? How to register your good dialog? Why has a documentary/reportage also best a pre-organized scenario? How do I create a good bedrijfsfilm?

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Creative writing with a group, how do you start it?

Creative writing with a group, how do you start it?Creative Writing in the autumn in Mechelen vzw organises a three day training 'Creative writing with a group'. For three saturdays learning participants under more creative writing with a specific target group: with the children in the class, with local residents about their neighborhood, with young people or with senior citizens in a setting, if support of a auteurslezing, etc.

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By Leen Schrijfadviesboek Pollefliet is Best Styled Book 2011

By Leen Schrijfadviesboek Pollefliet Best Styled Book 2011The manual "Write: report to final project - do's and don'ts" is awarded with the price for the Best Designed Book 2011 in the category textbooks. The book is the basis of Borrowed Pollefliet. The animator is Gino The Potter (Le Pur et l'Impur) and Herr Seele illustrated and made for the cover. The book is issued in Academia Press (Ghent).

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New automated spell checker for the biomedical industry

New Dutch spell checker for the biomedical industrySpell-IT is a new dictionary plug-in for Microsoft Word with over 300,000 English terms in the biomedical industry.

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New book with the basic rules of the Dutch spelling and punctuation

New book with the basic rules of the Dutch spelling and punctuationStandard Publishing (Antwerp) is the book 'SPIN 1. Spelling and punctuation: theory and exercises' appeared. The authors are Marian Goossens and Ann Hellemans. The book is both for moedertaalleerders as for NT2-leerders referred to.

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Literature underwhelmed (new online course)

Literature underwhelmed (new online course)The Dutch Letter Online Academy expands its course offerings with an online course Literature underwhelmed. Literary recensente Fleur Unhappy developed this gevorderdencursus.

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Schrijfdag on 14 may in Hasselt.

Schrijfdag on 14 may in Hasselt.The fourth edition of the Flemish Schrijfdag has place on saturday, May 14 in Hasselt. The program consists of writing workshop, infosessies, debates and meetings with fellow writers, with or without experience.

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