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It is a truth universally acknowledged that feed goals is a thing, but on point blurbs are something else entirely.

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The Duality of Communicative Purposes in the Textbook for Construction Engineering and Architecture: A Corpus-based Study of Blurbs

Each event is laid out in brief but sordid detail, with updates on the player involved, as well as a few blurbs about what made them important in the context of U.S.

Here are five book blurbs on Twitter and Obama to get yourself up to speed before the event:

Where annotations are used, they are in most cases descriptive blurbs provided by publishers (or in some cases, by authors) with value judgments edited out.

The project, from publisher Barrington Stoke in partnership with charity Booktrust and Liverpool's Alt Valley Learning Network, tasked pupils with coming up with 50-word blurbs for stories.

Now I do not want to give too much importance to the power of blurbs. The inaccurate blurb from Houghton Mifflin Publishers may have misled some readers, but I suppose the majority of readers who trusted in their own judgment and read the text intelligently reached an independent assessment, pro or con.

The blurbs are popping up this season as part of the cabler's ring-a-ding-ding period drama, "Mad Men." In one, a title card recalls, "Prescription drugs could not be advertised on television in the United States until 1997" against the signature minimalist back drop of the skein's opening-credits sequence just before an ad for anti-hypertension medication Caduet.

It's telling that many of the blurbs for the book come from noted shareholder activists and ethics arbiters like Robert Monks, Charles Elson and attorneys Ira Millstein and Lucian Bebchuk.

Perhaps so, but it does the intelligent reader little good, as this book is three quarters skimmable, and certainly not, as some of the book's blurbs claim, a work by a 'masterful writer who transformed the obituary into an art form.' Nor does McG.

In addition to the Lebanese bias (an issue, as Larry Hart well knows, that was brought to Congress' attention by Al-Hurra's own staffers and admitted by Al-Hurra's own executives), "the numbers released by the station," the Center for Public Diplomacy's Alvin Snyder noted in December, "paint a much more optimistic picture of its viewership than do those calculated by outside sources." (The dispute over those rosy "unduplicated" figures is also well-known to Hart.) It's a desperate bit of cherry-picking indeed that lunges for glowing blurbs from The Washington Times, whose own editor at large, Arnaud de Borchgrave, has repeatedly slammed the broadcast mouthpiece under headlines like "Few Hurrahs for Al-Hurra."