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First, and most important, yWriter is FREE to download and use!
Second, and still rather important, it’s a word processor which breaks your novel into chapters and scenes. It will not write your novel for you, suggest plot ideas or perform creative tasks of any kind. It does help you keep track of your work, leaving your mind free to create.
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Tweleted allows you to recover Twitter messages — tweets — after they’ve been deleted.
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Poster Yourself
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We offer you Level 1 and Level 2 courses in technical writing, plus a workshop on writing system requirement specifications. We’re constantly updating and restructuring our content.We also welcome your active participation in building and improving this learning community. All technical writing and analysis course work is free for you to use, copy, modify, and adapt as you see fit. This is open source learning.
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A News Metasearch Engine: search 1800 news engines from 200 countries
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WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting places in the sky.
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Docuter is a place where you can upload, publish, store and share documents. Docuter is powered by AJAX Document Viewer technology and allows you to interact with others easily through a web based online reader application. You can embed the documents on to your corporate website, blog, e-zine, etc. Your documents can be shared with Docuter community or your own friends and can be emailed to anyone you want. You can upload any kind of documents and Docuter supports more than 200 document types.
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yAuthor.com is an on-line service with authoring tools allowing authors to create professionally looking interactive content easily.
Entries from March 2009
Links for 2009-03-30 [delicious.com]
March 30, 2009 · Comments Off
Categories: Bookmarks
Tools for Posting RSS Feeds to Twitter
March 30, 2009 · 1 Comment
I did some research this weekend and found four tools that will automatically post RSS feeds to a Twitter account:
I’ve been using twitterfeed to post my own blog entries to my Twitter account. Making changes is annoying because it takes three or four steps to log in using OpenID, and I always have to look up the categories I selected as my “password.”
I haven’t tried Pingvine or RSS to Twitter. They look pretty straightforward, but I’m concerned about security for my account.
I did try HootSuite and have subsequently switched to it from twitterfeed. I can manage automatic updates of RSS feeds from my blogs and Delicious accounts to all my Twitter accounts (I have three) from one dashboard. It’s possible to add additional editors for one Twitter account. With HootSuite, I can schedule an update to be posted at a future time, and I can also use the Hootlet button to post from any web page to my Twitter account. It doesn’t have all the features that Big Tweet does, but I don’t have to log in and out of my various accounts with Hootlet. Since I use different computers during the week, I especially like the fact that HootSuite is web-based. Its biggest disadvantage is that I can’t see who I’m following or who is following me from the application.
Categories: Web 2.0
Tagged: microblogging, tools, Twitter
Application Project
March 29, 2009 · 3 Comments
Use the research you have done to write one of the following:
- Journal Entry(ies) or Personal Letter(s): Write one or more journal entries or personal letters to a friend or family member discussing events related to your topic as if you were an individual involved in that event.
- Short Story or Scene from a Play: Write a short story or scene from a play (dialogue) set during events related to your topic or using information on your topic.
- News Article: Write a news article related to your research topic.
- Editorial: Write an editorial expressing an opinion related to your research topic.
Other types of documents will be considered. Please contact the instructor with your idea(s).
The document should be in a format appropriate for the genre and must be at least 1200 words long.
It should be accompanied by a brief essay with parenthetical citations and a References page in APA style explaining which sources you used and how you used them. The essay must be at least 300 words long. You should use at least five sources of three different types.
Categories: Writing
Tagged: assignment, drama, editorial, ENG 1020 SP 09, ENG 122 SP 09, journal, news, short story
ENG 1020 and 122: Research Paper Q&A
March 28, 2009 · 4 Comments
If you have any questions about writing your research paper, please use the comments on this post to ask them. Be sure you use at least your first name and last initial so I know who is asking the question.
If you have questions about the requirements for the paper, please review the appropriate section in the syllabus.
Categories: Writing
Tagged: ENG 1020 SP 09, ENG 122 SP 09
What If Technical Writers Can’t Document Their Sources Properly?
March 27, 2009 · Comments Off
Since it’s spring break this week (at Metro) and next (at Red Rocks), I’ve been catching up on my reading. Yesterday I read the January issue of Intercom, which is published monthly by The Society for Technical Communication. I was happy to learn about Writer River and and meet its creator, Tom Johnson, via e-mail.
Today I read the February issue (Vol. 56, No. 2), and I was disappointed with the article by Tony Self, “What If Readers Can’t Read?” (10-14). First, all the documentation that he did provide was in the form of URLs in parentheses following the reference to the source. Aside from being difficult to read–especially in such narrow columns, this method doesn’t provide enough information about the sources he used, like the names of authors or creators, the titles, and the dates of publication. (The preceding article, “Is There a Write Way to Collaborate?” by Charlotte Robidoux and Beth Hewett (4-9), had a proper APA-style References list, but I couldn’t find any in-text, parenthetical citations.)
Second, on the first page of text (11) in Self’s article, he referred to a “self-survey at Kansas State University” about student reading habits. He provided no documentation at all for the survey, though at the end of the article, he did mention that it was distributed in a YouTube video. Here is that video (I think):
Categories: Technical Communication · Writing
Tagged: Intercom magazine, STC, technical writing
Links for 2009-03-26 [delicious.com]
March 26, 2009 · Comments Off
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NASA Exploration in 3D
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The guide is full of stories about people like you. We hope if you need to convince your friend, your boss or your client to join you on Twitter, that we may be of some help. My personal feeling: Twitter may be the easiest way for an individual or even an organization to discover the power of the 2.0 world.
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Inspired talks by the world's leading thinkers and doers
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free manuals for free software
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Elaine Aron's page
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Myers-Briggs MBTI Personality Type
Categories: Bookmarks
Working Bibliography
March 23, 2009 · 2 Comments
Prepare a properly formatted “Works Cited” page with all the sources you are planning to use in your paper. (You may add and/or delete a couple of your sources for your draft, but the majority should be the ones you end up using.) You don’t need to include the usual information for the first page of a paper in MLA format, but your last name should be in the header with the page number, and the document should be double-spaced with 1-inch margins in 12-point Times New Roman font. Don’t forget the 1/2-inch hanging indent for each entry.
Categories: Writing
Tagged: assignment, bibliography, ENG 1020 SP 09, ENG 122 SP 09
Research Journal Assignment #9
March 23, 2009 · Comments Off
Post three times in your blog (research journal), using the numbers, letters, and phrases in bold as the titles of your respective posts:
9a: Writing Thesis Statements–Write three possible thesis statements for your research paper.
9b: Brainstorming Visual Aids–Brainstorm a list of at least five different visual aids you could include in your research paper.
9c: Checking Quotations, Paraphrases, and Summaries–Go to two of your classmates’ blogs (ENG 1020, ENG 122) and check their quotations, paraphrases, and summaries (Research Journal Assignment 8b). In comments on those posts, offer suggestions for improving the quotations, paraphrases, and summaries or confirm that they are accurate and appropriate. In your own blog, post the web addresses of the pages where you commented.
Use the department and course number (ENG 1020 or ENG 122) and other appropriate tags (“Labels” on Blogger) for each of the three posts.
Categories: Instructional Technology
Tagged: assignment, ENG 1020 SP 09, ENG 122 SP 09, progress report, research journal, thesis statement, visual aids
