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With audience members packing the seats, standing at the back of the auditorium and sitting in the aisles, Kishlansky discussed different types of history writing, such as textbook and encyclopedia writing...
...singled out his writing for the Encyclopedia Britannica as an especially interesting example of writing for a general audience...
...encyclopedia writer is confined by a strict length limit and is also expected to write with a voice of absolute authority different from the one used in scholarly texts, he said...
...heard about those kinky Internet newsgroups with names like alt.sex.bondage. I'd read about the use of online services to transmit pornography, including illegal kiddie porn. But no one had warned me that I might log onto AOL for the innocent purpose of, say, perusing the online encyclopedia and wander off for a minute, only to be enlisted in a hot-and-heavy bout of thigh licking. And I've learned it doesn't go on just in AOL. You can find plenty of onscreen panting at tonier sites on the Internet, including multiparticipant orgies...
...dominates the market for almost every big-ticket application program, like word processing (Microsoft Word), electronic spreadsheets (Excel), filing (Access), scheduling (Project) and the new all-in-one program "suites" (Office). Microsoft's Flight Simulator is one of the best-selling PC games of all time. Microsoft's electronic encyclopedia (Encarta) outsells the Encyclopaedia Britannica...