by danielbpatton | Jan 4, 2004 | Uncategorized
In my last column, “Education, Composition, Alteration, Hibernation: How to Improve Your Content before Publication”, I proposed a four-stage process for growing your web site’s content from scratch. I cautioned you to continually develop your...
by danielbpatton | Jan 2, 2004 | Uncategorized
Hi! I’m Daniel, netmaking.com’s Content Specialist. You are reading the very first column in this fine newsletter’s history to be written by me. I call my column “Your Own Words” for two reasons. First, it is through the power of the...
by danielbpatton | Nov 5, 2003 | #TechComm
The ‘Paramedic Method’ involves bringing writing that lacks vitality back to life. Offers an 8-step process for achieving all this. Richard Lanham, a professor of English at UCLA, invented an easy-to-use method for making your writing clearer and more...
by danielbpatton | Nov 5, 2003 | #TechComm
Now featuring coverage of electronic publishing as well as a grammar and usage chapter all its own, the Chicago Manual of Style is in its 15th edition. Buy it. Read it. Mind the gaps. Perhaps most importantly, remember to (as Linda Halvorson, chief editor, puts it)...
by danielbpatton | Aug 5, 2003 | #TechComm
I read recently about the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy and about other dos and don’ts of debating at Truth Tree, a site offering its share of left-leaning positions in a series of essays,and message boards for each for readers to submit their responses. Not...