Yesterday Pam Ford of Better by Design said to me with a glow on her face, "Plain English makes me happy." Me too! New Scientist readers report being "Jinxed by jargon" this week. Read EURALERT's impenetrable text on the Feedback...
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Posts tagged "Writing"
What's your setup for writing?
  Excuses excuses! I just couldn't get back into the book I was writing. For some reason I couldn't bear to work on it at my usual workstation. And this seemed ridiculous. Embarrassing. Hypocritical. A sign of moral weakness. You...
100 banned words cause an uproar
In Britain, the Local Government Association published a list of 100 words that public bodies should not use if they want to communicate effectively. That was on National Plain English Day, 11 December 2007. (I know, I'm slow but I...
Content on the agenda
For a glimpse at the current concerns of content managers, take a look at the agenda of three upcoming conferences. Content writers should be pretty interested in this too, but most probably couldn't care less. For writers, the agenda is...
Can writers meet the Web 2.0 challenges?
Liz Danzico's presentation at Webstock: damn, I had to miss it. My own presentation focused on the struggle for non-specialist writers to understand the demands of everyday, old-hat technology, even ignorance about Styles or a content management system can cause...