Feel like being a rebel with a clue? Check out one of the top ten most banned books for 2009, as reported by the ALA.
Harry Potter didn’t make this list this year, but Ms. Meyer’s Twilight series appears for the first time on the list (maybe those conservative mothers actually read the books their daughter […]
Some things never change…
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With blogs, twitter, social networking sites, is everyone a writer or better yet, an author now? No, but according to Pelli & Bigelow in A Writing Revolution , everyone will be an author in 2013. Yes, in just four short years everyone will be an author. Get ready to read! A lot!
The idea behind […]
This is a special edition announcement episode of Screen Space your podcast about creating usable, accessible, effective, and efficient web, blog, and new media design for the everyday (and non-expert) designer.
I invite those of you in academia to join me for something I am trying in November: Scholarly Writing Month (or ScoWriMo). For those of you who are not academics, sick around and consider joining this adventure in your own way.
Screen Space: Announcement & Invitation for Scholarly Writing (or other) Month [12:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadYour are cordially invited to join me for SchoWriMo!
As many may know, November is the “National Novel Writing Month” where participants try to write a novel (defined as 175-pages/50,000-words) during this month (see What is NaNoWriMo? for more details). As an academic, this concept always intrigued me, but didn’t work for me for three main […]
In this article, Anne Trubek points out something obvious, but something perhaps so oblivious most people miss it. With the advent of digital media and a rather high saturation of digital media use in the US and elsewhere, people are writing now more than ever.
As Trubek states; “What many professional writers are overlooking […]
In this enlightening article, Paul Graham explains why meetings seriously damage the “maker’s” schedule. Makers are programmers and writers according to him, or those who do their work in chunks of time (morning, afternoon) and not by hours (such as many managers). Academics, at least those I know, are makers too. His point is simple–because […]
Who hasn’t heard someone (or at least someone on mainstream media) complain that twitter, sms, email, and online chat programs make teens weaker writers? This is an unavoidable argument, but an unsupported argument. As a technical communicator, I, like others in my area and related areas, argue that the reverse is true. Or moslty true. […]
As someone who teaches writing, I am probably more particular about grammar than many people. However, I doubt I am alone in wanting to avoid a store actually called Diamonds R Forever. But, I kid you not, such a place exists. If I am going to buy diamonds, I want it to be from […]
Quotation marks get more than their fair share of misuse. For some reason many people put things in quotation marksfor emphasis (perhaps they are “air quoting”?). [note: yes, that is an example of misuse]. I love this reaction to the misuse from the Fail Blog:
Italics or bold are a much better methods of emphasizing words, […]
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