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Philip Yaffe

Registered on February 12, 2010 and updated on April 1, 2012:

Personal Information: Organization: Location: Belgium BiblioScribe Web: Visit the Philip Yaffe Website Twitter me at @ Occupation: Communication consultant   My Books: The Human Body: The Essential Ten Percent The Gettysburg Approach to Writing & Speaking like a ProfessionalCollection: An In-depth Companion to The Gettysburg Approach to Writing & Speaking like a Professional Word for Windows: The Essential Ten Percent Actual English: English Grammar as Native Speakers Really Use It Science for the Concerned Citizen: What you don�t know CAN hurt you Public Speaking: The Essential Ten Percent About Me: Philip Yaffe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1942 and grew up in Los Angeles, where he graduated from the University of California with a degree in mathematics and physics. In his senior year, he was also editor-in-chief of the Daily Bruin, UCLA�s daily student newspaper. He has more than 40 years of experience in journalism and international marketing communication. At various points in his career, he has been a teacher of journalism, a reporter/feature writer with The Wall Street Journal, an account executive with a major international press relations agency, European marketing communication director with two major international companies, and a founding partner of a specialized marketing communication agency in Brussels, Belgium, where he has lived since 1974. Recent News About Me: My Hobbies: Personal Quote: "Good writing is clear thinking made visible." - - Bill Wheeler "Writers must constantly ask: What I am trying to say? Surprisingly often, they don't know." - - William Zinsser "The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe." - - David Hare "I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it." - - William Faulkner "The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think." - - Edwin Schlossberg "Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood" - - Jr. Teague "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." - - Mark Twain "Don�t write merely to be understood. Write so that you cannot possibly be misunderstood. -- Robert Louis Stevenson See other members public profiles