March 27, 2009:
Price reduced from $11.75 to $5.35 on
the newly released e-book edition of my second collection of columns,
Writing with Wilbers
March 23, 2009:
Online learning
opportunities
March 11, 2009:
Excerpt from my novel in progress, A
Grammatical Affair: A Romance with Language
March 3, 2009:
Column posted on the use, and over-use, of
prepositions
February 13,2009:
New email course,
Better Style in 10 Weeks
February 12, 2009:
PowerPoint exercises republished as PDF files so that they now can be accessed
by Mac and Mozilla users
February 7, 2009:
Writing by Wilbers, my second collection of
columns, now available as an e-book
February 3, 2009:
Guidelines on when to use
who or whom
October 17, 2008:
Bookmarks added to
legal writing columns
October 13, 2008:
Three columns on
subject-verb agreement
September 28, 2008:
Column on how to make your
newsletter worth your reader's time (bottom
of page)
September 20, 2008:
Column on how to use quotations to enliven your
newsletter articles
August 23, 2008:
New
Column of the month
Information on October 14
"Tuesdays
with Wilbers"
open-enrollment workshop
April 13, 2008:
In memory of three beloved Minnesota authors (click
and scroll down)
April 3, 2008:
Nature's Gallery, photos from
poet John Caddy, downloadable for use as wallpaper, updated weekly
April 1, 2008:
Compound words: Spelling with or without hyphens updated
March 9, 2008:
Column on
"went missing" and other annoying phrases
January 8, 2008:
An invitation posted on my
Boundary Waters Chronology
to support the Oberholtzer Foundation
January 7, 2008:
Column on
the misuse and overuse of "got"
December 29, 2007:
Columns on
apology and customer relations letters
November 14, 2007:
Boundary Waters Chronology updated with
information on the 2006 Cavity Lake, Famine Lake, and Redeye Lake fires; on
the 2007 Ham Lake fire; and on the August rampage by the "Ely Six"
November 11, 2007:
Column on
eliminating wordiness
October 27, 2007:
Column on
knowing your dashes from your hyphens
October 20, 2007:
Column on
the do's and don'ts for using email effectively
September 18, 2007:
Teachers: A tribute
August 9, 2007:
Minneapolis Bridge Collapse: Reflections
May 1, 2007:
New column posted below
vocabulary-building exercises
March 17, 2007:
Notice of paperback release of my book,
Keys to Great Writing
January 21, 2007:
Columns on how to write
thank-you letters
October 12, 2006:
David Mura
on libraries, including two poems, presented at the September 18 celebration
held at the Minneapolis Central Library
September 2, 2006:
Poem for Dale Schatzlein in memory of my friend of 25 years who died unexpectedly on August
31, 2006
August 6, 2006:
More advice about how to write a
complaint letter,
as well as another column on
legal writing
August 2, 2006:
Ernest
Oberholtzer's classic 1934
complaint letter
July 23, 2006:
New
numbers usage
exercise
March 12, 2006:
Boundary Waters History
updated with information
regarding the August 2005 Alpine Lake fire, the largest fire in the Boundary
Waters in the past 10 years, and with statistics representing a dramatic
increase in the number of emergency incidents in 2005.
January 26, 2006:
Writing assessment: 15-point quiz (PowerPoint)
December 28:
Monthly tips now being collected into a book,
30 Tips for Writing with Style, to be published in 2007
November 20:
Salutations: FAQ updated with guidelines for
addressing married couples when one person has a professional title and the
other does not, as in Dear Dr. and Mr. Smith
November 15:
PowerPoint exercises from my writing
workshops on word choice, common errors, dangling modifiers, hyphens in
unit modifiers, and numbers usage
October 23:
New column on
deadlines
September 7:
My
weekly column distributed by email now
available on a six-month subscription basis
August 14:
PowerPoint presentation on when to use
nonrestrictive commas
July 1:
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
history updated with information about outdoor
adventurer Lloyd Skelton's disappearance
May 3:
Link to Mary Alice Hansen's newly published Boundary Waters book,
Sawbill History and Tales
New gray wolf population figures added to
Boundary Waters Chronology
April 30:
Weekly poem, Ted
Kooser’s
“American Life in Poetry” column
April 23:
Link to the
Ernest Oberholtzer webpage
April 12:
Links to amazon.com added to
Recommend Reading & Resources
April 10:
Web Style Guide
link
March 29:
Word choice errors,
as identified by the
“pickiest
wordsmiths”
of the Minneapolis Star Tribune (an exercise)
March 8:
This Northern Nonsense:
The Life of Ernest Oberholtzer in Verse
(book in progress)
February 3:
The Grammar of our Desire: A Romance with
Language (book in
progress)
February 1:
Link to
Parallel
structure
January 27:
Style:
Monthly tips by email
link added
January 20:
Dictionaries added to
Contents
page
December 17:
PowerPoint presentation on
Oral Presentation Skills
December 15:
New columns
delivered weekly to your inbox
December 14:
Monthly
tips for writers: free one-minute
exercises
November 29:
Article
about my teaching in the Center for the Development of Technological
Leadership
November 24:
How to write
application letters
November 15, 19, & 22, 2004:
Boundary Waters Chronology updated
with information regarding the black bear population and the four recorded
incidents of bears attacking humans in Minnesota
November 1, 2004:
Index to syndicated columns updated to include most recent columns
October 24, 2004:
The story of winning academic
acceptance for
American Sign Language (ASL)
October 6, 2004:
Take the Proofreading Challenge:
A fun proofreading exercise
September 22, 2004:
Weekly columns delivered to your inbox
Take the Grammar Challenge: An
assessment linked to an
Error Checklist
September 9, 2004:
Error Checklist
Take the Punctuation Challenge: An
assessment linked to an
Error Checklist
August 31, 2004:
Writers
Free Reference added to
Links to online writing resources
August 24, 2004:
PowerPoint: How to use,
a column identifying the do's and don'ts of effective PowerPoint
presentations
August 7, 2004:
Workshop Review: PowerPoint Presentation for
participants in my writing workshops and seminars
"In Search
of a Whole, Live Moose,"
a story, originally
published in 1988, about my son's first canoe trip in the Boundary Waters
Canoe Area Wilderness
April 25, 2004:
Boundary Waters Chronology for nature writers
April 20, 2004:
Link to
Resources and recommended reading
December 20, 2003:
Advice on how to write an
effective
résumé
November 20, 2003:
New winner of the
Golden Pen Award
October 19, 2003:
New link to
The Loft
Literary Center (Minneapolis): Programs and services for writers.
See other
links
to online resources for writers
May 12, 2003:
Sixth
Golden
Pen Award
March 30, 2003
A second copyediting exercise, based on an
M.O.T. Final Exam
March 9, 2003:
College Board Review article, the article that got me started as a writing consultant
February 10, 2003:
Third column, "The do's
and dont's of saying thank you,"
posted under
Thank-you letters
January 24, 2003:
Second column posted under
Thank-you letters
January 23, 2003:
Columns on
"Email:
Do's and Don'ts"
New review of my book
Keys to
Great Writing
January 10, 2003:
Link added to William Sabin's
The Gregg Reference Manual, a guide
widely used by on-the-job writers. Also, see
Links to online writing resources.
January 4, 2003:
Additional columns on these topics:
Grant
proposal writing
Legal
writing
Sales letters
& proposals
January 2, 2003:
A copyediting exercise, based on an
M.B.A. Final Exam
