by Cecilia Sepp, AIW Immediate Past President & Chair, Member Engagement In the February 8 issue of “The Weekly Standard,” author James Gardner pointed out the up side of electronic publishing: access to the sum total of written knowledge available instantly no matter where you are (as long as you have an internet connection). In [...]
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How to Make Sure Your Readers Ignore Your Stuff: No Action Verbs, No Imagery
a “Verbal Knightcap” by Robert M. Knight, AIW Board Member One really great way to make your readers go away is to sneer at them, write pompously. Works every time; they will make a point of avoiding what you wrote. And one great way to write pompously is to drain the energy of your sentences [...]
Musings on a Snowbound Day
by Jessie Seigel, AIW Board Member On this day, when we in the D.C. area are having our second heavy snow storm in a week (the first having deposited upwards of thirty inches of snow in places), and I look out my window at the tree branches weighed down by a foot of the white [...]