Writing
Business Blog Web Design Mistakes
With more companies adopting blogs, we're starting to see what works and what doesn't work from a design perspective. As a cue from Jakob Nielsen's article on the topic, here are thing problems I often find.
A Few Dilemmas Of The Writing Journey
Authoring as a Risk-Taking Endeavor
Being an unpublished novelist poses all sorts of dilemmas. Writing is entrepreneurial in nature, more than most people realize, and it is fraught with make or break decisions. Which side of the political spectrum do you show yourself? Do you embellish this or that social issue, perhaps the one most fashionable, or do you hide from them all?
If your goal is publication for its own sake, and you've decided to write, say, Gothic romance ...
Book Review Of Stuart Nachbar's Book About Education And Politics
Stuart Nachbar has created a curious novel in The Sex Ed Chronicles. Using a backdrop of 1980 New Jersey, we are introduced to the murky world of school politics. He has selected the contentious subject of compulsory Sex Education, however the subject could equally have been Religion or Evolution. All are subjects that have strong backers and equally strong detractors.
Schools and School Boards may not be the media favorites that the House or Senate may be. But make no mis...
An Interview With Author Alan Rolnick About His New Book Landmark Status
Landmark Status is a wonderfully funny book. Alan Rolnick uses Miami as the backdrop, and real estate as the weapon, to take the reader on a madcap journey that I can guarantee you will enjoy. When I put the put the book down and wrote the review, I just knew I wanted to talk to this guy. Anyone that can create the outlandish characters and amazingly funny scenes that I encountered in Landmark Status, has to be a pretty interesting person to chat with. Alan agreed to an inter...
Benefits Of Creating User Documents In-House
OVERVIEW
For small companies, creating their product's User Documentation in-house, provides benefits to the company, to (idle) staff, and to the product. This article describes the benefits and some downsides of producing User Documents in-house.
THREE OPTIONS
If you have no in-house writing staff you have three options:
1. No User Document for the product. This is NOT a valid option. Every product needs User Documentation. It completes your product package, an...
5 Ways A Reader Can Respond To Your Article.
When reading your article a reader can get warmed up and react on your article in several ways. A responsive reader will want to:
1) Visit your website link in the resource box
This is probably the most common response people seem to go to, even if it is the wrong one. People are so fixated with wanting their readers to go to their websites and buy straight away.
Tell me something, how many strangers on the Internet have you brought something from because they just t...
3 Essentials Before You Submit To Article Directories
One of the oldest yet still more effective techniques in driving targeted prospects to sites and converting them into buyers is information-based marketing. This is why article writing, submissions and publications are at an all-time high. However there are common mistakes that many people make before they submit their articles to directories.
Kendine düşünün içinyazı üç amaçlar, Of, bilgilendirmek, eğlendirmek, ve hangisinin ilk geleyim aydınlatmak? Böyle kendime soruyorum ve bir düşünürün bakış açısından cevap soru. Ayrıca, ne bir okuyucu bir düşünürün düşünceleri okuma rolü nedir? Okuyun ve öğrenin.
About Writing: Just Get Started!
Do you have writer's block? Are you not sure where to start? Simply start writing and you are one step closer to finishing.
3 Simple Steps to Dramatically Improved Writing
How can you reach and transform your audience with your writing? Are you writing as an amateur, or as a professional? Learn three simple steps that will improve your writing and help you to move your audience.
Article Writing: Easy or Difficult?
How a high school drop out who flunked english discovered he could easily create articles?
Business Writing Tips For Professionals
Effective business writing skills can help you win that million dollar contract, earn a promotion, resolve a dispute, or generate a significant increase in new business leads. Poor business writing, on the other hand, can never be undone; it can cause you to lose business to your competition and even cost you your job. Here are 11 easy ways you can improve your business writing skills:
1. Before you write a word of copy, make sure you know who your target audience is and w...
A Novice Guide to Become an Effective Content Writer
If there is one role to be filled in the Internet which matters most to a website, it is none other than content writers. Of course we could not ignore the fact that web designers and programmers are also important in giving a good website. However, it is the content that matters to the audience.
10 Article Writing Keys For Newbies
BONUS TIP for you: Along with "the rejection slip" will usually come a suggestion on how to "fix" your article
Article Writing -- Your Key to Success
Here's how writing articles can open surprising doors to success without investing any money.
Creating an Outline Can Dramatically Improve Your Article Writing
The truth is that writing is a pet hate for many of us. Throughout school we have written an endless number of essays and articles and from a personal point of view I hardly ever looked forward to the prospect of writing. It seemed so difficult to keep the flow of an article going, and many times I use to run out of points to mention, making the content uninteresting and bland. However, at a time when article writing can dramatically improve website promotion, it is a method that should not be avoided.
Does It Summarize?
Does your written message hold together when examined critically? You can check its internal integrity by trying to summarize the document, using only the information in it.
Busted: 5 Writing Myths
One common element whenever human beings gather is the need to talk and share experiences. Often that need turns into something a little more fun, a little more dangerous -- gossip. Gossip is often fun but it can also be dangerous because it spreads quickly (because it is fun) and often distorts or even completely avoids the truth. Gossip creates myths in many fields and professions, and the field of writing is especially prone.
The top five myths about writing are:
Myt...