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Philip Yaffe

Registered on February 12, 2010 and updated on January 29, 2012:

Personal Information: Organization: Location: 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