Thoughts for the Month: Citations Research citations are unavoidable for research writers. Although they are among the most important elements of research writing and presentations, they are often also among the most neglected. These oversights are often the result of prioritizing the writing (articles and books) along with the visual and stylistic elements (presentations) over READ MORE
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Thoughts for the Month: July, 2022
Thoughts for the Month: July 2022 Is Your Web Content Trendy or Evergreen? This month’s post is for writers of blogs and newsletters and other social media copy. If you’ve researched web copy & content, you’ve likely encountered the term evergreen content, which is vital to a website’s search engine optimization (SEO). What does it mean? READ MORE
Thoughts for the Month, June 2022
Describing my website revisions and reflecting on the journaling process.
My Document’s Done! Do I Need a Proofreader or an Editor?
Understanding the lingo of writing and editing professionals Perhaps you’ve just finished an e-book or you are launching a new business. You want to be sure you are presenting a professional image and that merits the help of a professional in the writing & editing field. So, you start looking for editors…of which there seem READ MORE
Search and Surrender, The Help and Hindrance of Journaling through Stress
Sometimes–even for me, an avid journaler who is essentially an advocate for journaling — the journaling practice gets a little too unwieldy. A little too much wallowing, obsessive thought patterning, and unresolvable (without additional information) analysis and guesswork. I ask myself now and then, “Is journaling really a help to my stress levels and stress READ MORE
Steampunk Journaling: Diary Writing in the Digital Age, Or, What I Learn from Reading Old Journals
As we try to understand the past, we try to understand ourselves in relation to the past. Steven Marcus, The Other Victorians (quoted in Steffen Hantke’s “Difference Engines and Other Infernal Devices: History According to Steampunk.”) You know that sense of not quite being able to move on from the past? For those of us who frequently READ MORE