About Using Active Verbs

Cathy Moore helps people learn how to replace is/are/ etc. with more active verbs. Check it out - http://blog.cathy-moore.com/?p=207 - It’s short, it’s fun, and it makes its point clearly. (Am I contradicting her point? ;-&gt

Generating a Table of Figures

I enjoy playing with new applications, and I enjoy figuring out how to use them to accomplish tasks. My previous post was a screencast showing how to automatically generate a Table of Contents, something that is very easy once you see the steps. This post is focussed on how to automatically generate a Table of [...]

iShowU, Bliptv, & Tables of Content in Word

I have just had a fun couple of hours making and uploading my first screencast, just under 5 minutes long. You can see the results here:

I have found many people don’t know how to use Styles in MSWord, and many other word-processing applications, to automatically generate a Table of Contents. I think this is a [...]

Has the Computer and the Web Changed Writing?

I was at a session for writing instructors today; we were discussing whether we could actually teach students how to edit their writing. As we talked about our various approaches, I remembered the room I boarded in my last year as an undergrad. I remembered how small it was and how the roof sloped over [...]