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Dog Eared
Writing for the Stage
Mon Mar 26 00:00:00 EDT 2007
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Word Count
Five High School Debating Tactics to Make You a Better Writer
Mon Mar 26 00:00:00 EDT 2007
I recently spent an entire Saturday listening to a bunch of 16-year-olds argue with each other. And then I graded their efforts to help determine a winner. Sounds odd, I know. But that's the world of competitive debating. And what works for these high schoolers on the podium, can work for your writing, too.
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Blog Excerpts
Writing Memos For Word of Mouth
Sat Mar 24 00:00:00 EDT 2007
The Church of the Customer blog, written by marketing gurus Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba, recently ran a post on the power of the company memo: "The lowly memo still has juice. Maybe more so today, thanks to social media. Several recent memos that leaped over their corporate moats illustrate three types of company communications that create waves in the word-of-mouth waters." How? Read the post here.
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Backstory
Kristy Kiernan, Author of "Catching Genius"
Sat Mar 24 00:00:00 EDT 2007
I daydream a lot. If my mother had been the sort of mother who kept boxes of elementary school mementos, I could prove it with the comments sections of my report cards. "Kristi (I changed the "i" to a "y" sometime during adolescence, forever confounding my grandparents) is very bright, but tends to daydream too much," or "Kristi could be an "A" student if she stopped daydreaming." So my mother wasn't the sort of mother who kept every scrap of my childhood perfectly preserved, but luckily for me she was the sort of mother who didn't get all worked up about curtailing daydreams.
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Blog Du Jour
Blogging for Business
Wed Mar 21 00:00:00 EDT 2007
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Word Count
The Verbifying of America
Wed Mar 21 00:00:00 EDT 2007
Sparrow, a pundit poet from Phoenicia, New York, graciously contributed the following column.
Nouns are becoming verbs faster than ever before. I've been "journaling" on this phenomenon, and here's my report:
In the Old Days, every new invention did not immediately become a verb. No one said: "I must electric canopener this tuna," or "Well, it's time to dishwasher." But ever since the Fall of Communism, new consumer items have been verbified. We do say: "I'll fax you that receipt," "Can you e-mail me the final figures?" "Let's microwave the taco," and "Shh! I'm text-messaging!" (In fact, "text-messaging" is giving way to the more direct "texting.")
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Candlepower
Good to Great: Five Fun Tips For Improving Your Writing
Wed Mar 21 00:00:00 EDT 2007
When you write full time, it's very easy to fall into bad habits without realizing it's happening. Like the clutter in your house, which eventually becomes "invisible," you don't see the mistakes and glitches in your own copy.
So how do you improve your writing? Here are my five proven methods -- all of which I use regularly.
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Dog Eared
Business Communication 2.0
Mon Mar 19 00:00:00 EDT 2007
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Lesson Plans
Using Descriptive Language
Mon Mar 19 00:00:00 EDT 2007
In this lesson, students analyze a writer's use of sensory details and descriptive language in a New York Times article reviewing the Apple iPhone. Then, students are asked to write original product reviews which incorporate some of the descriptive writing techniques identified and evaluated in class.
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Blog Excerpts
Don't Be Afraid to Sound Genuine
Sat Mar 17 00:00:00 EDT 2007
Building Rapport is a blog that advocates plain language and clear writing -- and offers concrete advice on how to get there. It recently featured an entry called, simply, "Simplify," where it lists a half-dozen or so ways to get to the heart of whatever matter you're writing about. Read the post here.
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