Posted by Greg on June 27, 2000, at 21:51:53
In reply to Sweating and writing... » dj, posted by shar on June 27, 2000, at 20:55:10
Hey Shar,
Are you a Technical Writer? Wanna move to the beautiful (if you don't mind the occasional traffic jam from hell) Silicon Valley? I have JUST the job for you, and I don't mind if you sweat either.
Hope you're well,
Greg> I do all kinds of writing. For the more fun stuff, for a small circle of friends, I will write their advertising materials and brochures, or critique their writing. I will also help them tighten up their information gathering and demographic data. (My friends don't mind that I sweat a lot.)
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> Plus I write the fun and funny poem or two. This year, I closed a conference with a poem I wrote that was decidedly tongue-in-cheek. People were quite amazed that I could make words rhyme. (rhyming dictionary, anyone?)
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> I mainly write about research, methodology, lit review, research results, analysis and interpretation, ad nauseum., program evaluation, writing, social science, finishing dissertations (I did that for a class I taught), white papers for work, briefing materials, training materials, etc. I will usually end up being the office editor wherever I go; I always warn people that I'm vicious, but they keep coming.
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> Way back when I was in grad school I was co-author on some journal articles, and of course there is always the good old thesis and then dissertation!
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> Who was it that said "Writing is easy. You just sit down and open a vein..." ?
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> I would like to find a dictionary of adjectives. I hate the current passion of turning nouns into verbs by adding -ize, and the move toward content-free language.
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> How about you?
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> Shar
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