I am overwhelmed. I am overwhelmed with email, Facebook, Twitter, Google alerts, Twitter, my three blogs, LinkedIn, and on and on and on. And, with this feeling of being overwhelmed, I render myself completely ineffective. Add this time of year to the bubbling cauldron and: OUT OF CONTROL!! I came upon this article: ...
Irritating email habits and how to fix them. You are what you write — this is my mantra and if you think about it, it IS the name of the image game these days. So much of how we interact with others is through text — especially email in business. When you write sloppily, you ...
Why is it that some people insist on writing in all capital letters? I love to peruse the Saturday real estate section in the local paper, and enjoy reading the descriptions of my “dream homes,” except for the ones written in all caps! It’s not that I’m trying to make a point, it’s that I ...
In just the past two days I have come across two articles, both of which “how-to’s” about good writing, both of which were rife with writing errors. What errors? Passive voice, pseudo-academic style (in other words, difficult to understand), agreement of pronouns and antecedent (That person caught their coat in the door), crazy sentence construction, ...
I promised to publish more comments from my class of budding business writers and their preparation for same in higher ed. Here is another insightful commentary: Question: Please discuss the changing nature of writing and how higher education should therefore prepare its students. I think that the nature of writing has changed greatly in the ...
I love horses. In fact, I have a wonderful little Standardbred I rescued from a dire fate. But this post is not about horses. It is about higher education, and the perception of students relative to writing and their experiences in the hallowed halls of academe. A little prelude first. I am one of those ...
It is more than knowing how to use the computer. It is more than knowing how to send an email. It is more than using the cadre of Microsoft products. It is about rhetoric, audience, message, purpose. It is about design, using image and word, and minimizing possible misinterpretation. It is a science. It is ...
I just finished reading an article by David Wallace on Search Engine Guide titled “Are Your Web Pages Haunted — That Is With Grammar Errors?” Short though it is, it hits on all those common and all too frequent and inexcusable errors that make us all look like slugs. Enjoy and happy writing! ...