{"id":12729,"date":"2019-06-06T12:05:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T16:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/professor-jim-labate-will-sign-his-new-book-at-market-block-books-on-saturday-june-8\/"},"modified":"2019-06-06T12:05:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T16:05:24","slug":"professor-jim-labate-will-sign-his-new-book-at-market-block-books-on-saturday-june-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/professor-jim-labate-will-sign-his-new-book-at-market-block-books-on-saturday-june-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Jim LaBate will sign his new book at Market Block Books on Saturday, June 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_96585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96585\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96585 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jim-with-WIH-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThis book is the perfect gift for the high-school graduate in your family.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Professor Jim LaBate, who works in the Writing Center, will be at Market Block Books in Troy on Saturday, June 8 from 11 a.m to 1 p.m. to sign copies of his newest book, &#8220;Writing Is Hard: A Collection of Over 100 Essays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These essays were written specifically for first-year college students, but they are also appropriate for anyone who wants to improve his or her writing. LaBate begins the book with his \u201c10 Commandments of Writing\u201d and continues with chapters on other aspects of writing such as punctuation and grammar, the key parts of an essay, research, plagiarism, and literary techniques, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Market Block Books is located at 290 River St. in downtown Troy, right near the Troy Waterfront Farmers\u2019 Market.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about LaBate and his new book, click on the link below:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhny.com\/event\/mbb-jim-labate-book-signing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.bhny.com\/event\/mbb-jim-labate-book-signing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:05:24 +0000 by\u00a0d.gardner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Professor Jim LaBate, who works in the Writing Center, will be at Market Block Books in Troy on Saturday,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accolades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}