Writing: Dreading the Writing Assignment? Outlines to the Rescue

Dreading the Writing Assignment? Outlines to the Rescue

Written by Christine Taylor

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•Outlining shrinks your writing time by a third to a half. How do you whittle down that pile of research notes and interviews into an article or white paper? You guess it – outline it. By assigning sections to your notes before you start writing, you’ll categorize, simplify and clarify. Not bad before you’ve even written an introduction. For example, let’s say you’re writing an article about mirroring. You can divide such an article into several different sections depending on what your client wants to get across. Here are some examples of different outlines: o1) Explanation of mirroring 2) Differences between local and remote mirroring, 3) Contrasting mirroring with other forms of replication, or o1) Define mirroring 2) List environments that require mirroring 3) Decision matrix for assigning different mirroring levels.

Once you’ve done your research it’s simple to assign pieces to different sections. Believe me, it’ll light a fire under your writing time.

Christine Taylor is president of Keyword Copywriting, which helps marketing and PR pros leverage their relationships with technology clients. E-mail her at chris@keywordcopy.com, call her at 760-249-6071, or check out Keyword’s Website at www.keywordcopy.com.

Slow Pokes: Short story on the changing world of writing.

Written by M6.net

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Excitedly he asked, “What is an E Book?

“It’s an electronic text. You can download whole books off repparttar Net in a few minutes, even old out-of-print books. You can put your own E Book on a website. You can even access publishers’ sites and find out what their specific criteria and policies are.”

Sitting straight up in his chair Johnny Jenkins Jr. ripped out one of his famous (among our friends) stream-of-consciousness poems:

Slow Pokes

Purple turtle faster than repparttar 129106 hare Super sloth flying, wind in her hair Master slug puts himself into fifth gear Simon Snail hang-gliding without fear How fast does repparttar 129107 Sun fly through Space? How fast does a smile appear on your face? Why are humans so slow to know? When will they finally take control?

We both burst out laughing. It was good to see Johnny back to his old self. Then I remembered something really cool I’d wanted to tell him.

“ You know when you’re talking about a quotation from a book you love, like repparttar 129108 Seafarer Rat’s tale in Wind in repparttar 129109 Willows, but you just can’t find it to show it to me.

“Yeah.” said Johnny.

“Well, in an E Book you can use your word processor’s (like Word) search facility to find those quotes instantly just by typing in repparttar 129110 words you remember!”

Johnny looked totally transformed, “ That is incredible!” he whispered.

“You see, computer technology is here to help all people, we don’t have all repparttar 129111 answers to life-but we are evolving. However, I would like to know that world’s best pizza recipe right now. Pizza technology is also very important to human evolution!”

Jesse S. Somer M6.Net http://www.m6.net Jesse S. Somer is a technological novice hoping to inform others like himself about the miracle of the Internet.

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