Topics
Writing Exercises
Active/passive voice
Administrative writing
Angry letters
Annoying phrases: "went missing" and
others
Answers to readers' queries
Apology and customer relations letters
Apostrophes
Applications:
Jobs
Letters
Artificial intelligence, language, and
you
Better writing:
Email courses
Online
guides
Bibliography: Resources and
recommended reading
Blogs & newsletters
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness:
Chronology
Story: "In Search of a Whole, Live
Moose"
Bureaucratic writing
Business writing: Article
published in The College Board Review
Capitalization rules
Checklists:
Editing
Style & personality
Writing
Classical
schemes: From Cicero to Prince
Clichés &
figurative language
Closings
Collaborative writing
Coherence, sentence to sentence
College application essays
Commas
Nonrestrictive commas
(with which but not that)
Rules for commas
Skydiving
with nonrestrictive commas
Complaint letters
Compound words:
Spelling with or without hyphens
Computers & language
Concise writing
Conflict resolution
Confusing word pairs
Connecting through writing
Copy & imitate to learn stylistic technique
Correspondence: Use to build
relationships
Counterfactual thinking:
Jane McGonigal
Criticism: How
to offer
Customer relations and apology letters
Dangling Modifiers
Dashes
Dashes
vs. hyphens
Deadlines
Dictionaries:
Paper
&
online
Defensive vs. supportive communication:
Jack Gibb
Editing checklist
Editing & revising: Techniques
Editing relationships: How to be
a good critic
Editors, letters to
Elegance & beauty in business writing
Elements of effective writing, five
Elements of effective
communication checklist
Email courses: Better Writing &
Technique
Email: Do’s and don’ts
Error Checklist: 75 common errors
Essay test questions: Writing
under time limit
Evidence, rules of
"Feeling poorly" usage
Figurative language & clichés
First person, writing in
Five elements of
effective writing
Fundraising
Gibb, Jack:
Defensive vs. supportive communication behaviors
Gifts
for June graduates
"Good Writing
for Good Results":
Published in
The College Board Review
"Got": misuse
and overuse
Grammatical Affair: A Romance with
Language (a novel)
Grant proposal writing
Guides to better writing
Habits of writing, seven (in honor of
Stephen Covey)
Handwriting & texting
Hyphens
Hyphen rules
Hyphens &
compound words
Hyphens, when to use them
Hyphens vs. dashes
Imitate to learn stylistic technique
Index to syndicated columns
International writing
Jack Gibb:
Defensive vs. supportive communication behaviors
Jane McGonigal:
Counterfactual thinking
Job applications & self-appraisals
Journaling, with style
June graduates: Gifts
"Lake Wobegon: Mythical Place and the American
Imagination"
Leads (or ledes):
How to engage your reader
Legal writing
Letters of application
Letters of resignation
Letters to the editor
Managerial communication
McGonigal, Jane:
Counterfactual thinking
Messages, three-step
Minutes, how to write effective
Mission statements
Nature writing: Boundary Waters Chronology
News releases
Newsletters & blogs
Nonrestrictive commas
Nonrestrictive commas &
skydiving
Numbers
Usage
Nine rules
Oral presentation skills
Compared with writing skills
PowerPoint review
Paragraphs
Parallel
structure
Passive voice,
uses
Performance reviews
Persuasive writing:
Columns
Using logos, pathos, & ethos
Plagiarism
Plan, writing
Policies & procedures
PowerPoint Presentation: Workshop Review
PowerPoint: Making your point more powerfully
Prepositions: Use and over-use
Press releases
Prince & classical schemes
Procedures
Progress reports
Proofreading
Proofreading electronically produced text
Punctuation: FAQ
Quotation marks
Readers' queries:
"Feeling poorly" & other usage questions
Reading, the importance of
Recommended reading & references
Resignation letters
Résumés
Revising
& editing:
Techniques
Rogerian argument, persuasion
Rules of evidence
RULES, Rules, and rules
Sales letters and proposals
Salutations: FAQ
Say no, how to
"Scholars (sic) Walk" at the University of
Minnesota
Self-appraisals & job applications
Sexist language: How to avoid
Skydiving & nonrestrictive commas
Speaking and writing skills, how they compare
Speeches (PowerPoint)
Spelling compound words, with or without hyphens
Storytelling, the power of
Stress points in sentences
Style:
Checklist
Five elements
In journaling
Monthly tips by email
Style sheets:
For company-wide consistency
CRI’s “No-Excuse 10”
Stylistic technique through imitation
Subject-verb agreement
Teachers: A tribute
Technical writing & technical writers
Technology's influence on reading, writing, and
thinking
Texting, handwriting, & language
Thank-you letters
Threatening communication,
vs. trust-inspiring
Usage:
Confusing word pairs
Correct word choice
Verbs: Agreement with subjects
Vocabulary:
Columns
Lynell's
workplace
word
list
"Went missing" and other annoying phrases
White papers
Who or whom?
Word choice:
Confusing word pairs
