I sat down to read the last little bit of Ivanhoe as an e-Book, and was surprised to learn later that the “last little bit” was over a hundred pages long.
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Category Archives: For School
On Microsoft Word Styles: How to Generate a Table of Contents
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Tweet This week we’ve been talking about styles in Microsoft Word, and I’ve been promising for two days that setting up your styles would pay off when you got to make a Table of Contents. I won’t make you wait any longer. That wouldn’t be fair. Also…well, this is going to be a little involved, […]
On Microsoft Word Styles: Using and Customizing Paragraph Styles
Monday, July 5, 2010
Tweet Yesterday I told the story of a time I demonstrated the raw, unrestrained power of paragraph styles in Microsoft Word. In case you don’t want to go back and read that, it amounted to a gasp and what was probably a sarcastic comment. Even so, paragraph styles are quite cool. Before you can see […]
On Microsoft Word Styles: “You Cheated!”
Sunday, July 4, 2010
It can take some effort to get your styles set up right, but as my Tech Writing students learned last fall, once that’s done, you can do magic in MS Word.
On Document Outlines: How to Use the Standard Outline Format
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Write a strong blog post, essay, or book by perfecting your document structure. The easiest way to do that is with a formal outline. Here are the rules.
On Document Outlines: Visualizing Underlying Structure
Monday, June 14, 2010
Tweet Yesterday I told a terrifying story about someone who used the outline format as a vicious weapon. Even without experiencing that trauma, many of us find outlines intimidating (or, at best, tedious). When you learn how to use them, though — and if you only outline when you really need to — a good […]
On Document Outlines: My Great Debate
Sunday, June 13, 2010
The value of a well-made outline is keeping you on topic. An outline isn’t just a summary, it’s a structure, a map of the relationships between ideas. That’s incredibly valuable when you’re trying to perfect a document, because it lets you see how each piece of it is connected to the document’s purpose (and by how far removed).
Researching Your Writing
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Learning how to ace my AP History test taught me how to use good research — not as a foundation, but as structural support. It’s better, faster, and stronger.
The Right Way to Do Research
Monday, June 7, 2010
Writing research is more than just finding information–it’s also analyzing the information for relevance to your topic, dangerous bias, and final implications.
The Right Way to Learn
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Two of the best classes I took in high school were AP English and US History, and both of them taught me how to improve my writing with quick, easy research.
