noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ celebrated , distinguished , eminent , famous , great , important , influential , leading , major , prominent , well-known
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one of the greatest ~s of all time
▪ serious
▪ award-winning
▪ best-selling , popular , successful
▪ favourite/favorite
▪ prolific
▪
a very prolific crime ~
▪ accomplished , creative , fine , gifted , good , talented
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one of the best ~s in journalism today
▪ experienced , published
▪ young
▪ aspiring
▪
a chance for aspiring ~s to get their work published
▪ freelance , full-time , professional
▪ contributing , senior , staff (all esp. AmE )
▪ anonymous , ghost (usually ghostwriter )
▪ contemporary , living , modern , recent
▪ ancient , classical , Greek , Roman
▪ Renaissance , Victorian , etc.
▪ modernist , post-colonial
▪ 16th-century , etc.
▪ early , later
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early ~s in sociology
▪ black , female , gay , male , woman
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She gives talks about being a black woman ~.
▪ Christian , communist , feminist , political , socialist
▪ religious , spiritual
▪ academic , technical
▪ fiction , prose
▪ comedy , crime , mystery , romance , science-fiction , sci-fi , thriller
▪ baseball , cookbook ( esp. AmE ), cookery ( BrE ), fashion , food , football , golf , nature , science , sports , travel
▪ copy (usually copywriter ) , editorial ( esp. AmE ), feature , headline , leader ( BrE ), magazine , newspaper ( esp. AmE ), speech
▪ comic-book , short-story , textbook
▪ film , screen (usually screenwriter ) , script (usually scriptwriter ) , television , TV
▪ music , song (usually songwriter )
▪ software
▪ letter , report
▪ shorthand ( BrE )
▪ the present ( written )
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The present ~ (= the person writing) has no experience in microbiology.
WRITER + VERB
▪ write sth
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a popular ~ who has written over forty books
▪ argue sth , describe sth , point sth out , put it , say sth , suggest sth
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As one ~ put it, English wine could be drunk only with closed eyes and through clenched teeth.
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Is political culture, as some ~s have suggested, in a state of collapse?
▪ be interested in sth
▪ draw on sth
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The ~ drew on his own experience to write this script.
PREPOSITION
▪ as ~
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her career as a ~
▪ ~ for
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a freelance feature ~ for Time
▪ ~ of
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a ~ of children's books
▪ ~ on
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He is a prominent ~ on civil liberties.
PHRASES
▪ a group of ~s , a writer's group
▪ a ~ in residence
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We have decided not to employ a ~ in residence after June.
▪ a ~ of the day, period, time, etc.
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Unlike many ~s of the period, she is not preoccupied with morality.
▪ writer's block
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He's just released a new album after two years of writer's block.