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Five Rules for Effective Writing from Orwell
March 23rd, 2007 |Pick the Brain nicely abstracts George Orwell’s 5 Rules for Effective Writing and provides the link to the original essay. I just came across this tool that helps you eliminate cliches from your writing. This helps with Orwell’s first rule of avoiding the use of metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech that you’ve seen [...]
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DST Change Is Bad Enough…
March 13th, 2007 |As if the daylight savings time change wasn’t enough to contend with, Microsoft picked a bad page to have a typo. A page that many people have been accessing. What’s verion? What happens when you get two verions? Also found this typo on a kids sports program information page. Do we get to take two classes [...]
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Cut the Modifiers and Using “Only”
March 6th, 2007 |Two simple writing tips Stop with the Overdone Modifiers On Writing Well taught me to cut the use of modifiers such as “really,” “very,” “so,” and “quite.” I save those for when I really mean something It’s amazing how many articles I’ve edited that abused these words that they lose meaning. Using Only in Sentences An Ode to [...]
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Shot Patients Needing Allergy Shots
February 6th, 2007 |Confusing headline? Just echoing the sign I saw in an allergist’s office. Has a few problems, doesn’t it? Apologies for the bad looking photo — “shot” with a camera phone with not so hot functionality.
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Top 10 Books on Writing
January 16th, 2007 |Writing White Papers has put together an impressive list of the top ten books for writers. A list of finalists (for anything in general) often contain a couple of weak choices, but not this list. Stelzner asked readers to submit ONE favorite book, which created a strong list of finalists. I have some of these [...]
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Cursive Writing and Memorizing History and Poetry
December 18th, 2006 |This past entry addresses the dying art of letter writing (by hand and snail mail!). Cursive writing becoming a thing of the past looks at cursive writing’s decline in the classroom. Students typically learn cursive writing in third grade and I believe this should continue — but not with a heavy focus on getting it [...]
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Zeitgeist Definition and Pronunciation
December 13th, 2006 |Pronunciation: ‘tsIt-”gIst, ‘zIt So that’s “zight” “guise+t” like geyser only stop at the “s” and add a “t” on the end. Right? Dallas Columnist Steve Blow [may require free registration] brought “Zeitgeist” to my attention. While reading his column, I realized I had seen this word appear often especially thanks to Google Zeitgeist, which searches for trends [...]
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Annual Holiday Letters
December 7th, 2006 |I started the tradition of sending a holiday letter in 1997 or maybe before, but I have no proof. Originally, I sent cards and write a short note. Since I enjoyed reading letters from others, I thought I’d do the same and the annual letter began. Took the lazy way out this year and didn’t bother [...]
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Business Schools Aim to Cure Bad Writing
December 6th, 2006 |Reading about business schools take aim at bad writing didn’t surprise me. When I was a MBA graduate student for one semester, we had to pass a writing and presentation section. The university conducted seminars followed by students giving presentations and writing a paper. Students who didn’t pass received tutoring and presented again. Those who did [...]
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Checking Content Readability
October 26th, 2006 |While earning my degree in education, I learned about the Fog Index, Flesch-Kincade, and other ways to measure comprehensibility. This helped us understand how to measure content to determine its reading level. Along the same lines, Denny Hatch [Link from Cincom Expert Access] introduces colleague Bob Scott. Scott uses Robert Gunning’s Fog formula to make writing [...]
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