Okay, now you need to find a new job. As a techie you may thought you have so many things to mention to the recruiters. What are the best ways to include into your resume? eWeek has researched and gives some advices on how to write practical and outstanding resume to get an interview. The…

Download Squad pointed me to this Mac application called WriteRoom. The trick is simple: fill the page with ONLY the screen you’ll be typing on, and do autosaves the whole time you’re typing. It’s perfect if you need to buckle down and focus on writing and can’t afford the distractions. I like that you can edit…

This is a trick I like to use for writing fiction, but that also applies to business. I start at the end. The exercise is something like this: By the end of this piece, the following will have happened: ____ , ____, _____. The plan is that you start thinking about all the…

I used to be an English teacher and the most dreaded task that I could assign my students was to write a short essay. Perhaps that fear is a product of our technological environment where the art of writing to introduce or share an idea has given way to terse or coded phone messages…

Phil Renaud has observed a relationship between font faces and essay mark. He used past 52 papers that he had written throughout his university study, and he grouped all those essays into different category of font faces and calculated at the average marks. Surprisingly, essays with Serif font has better marks than with Sans-Serif font:…

A recent piece in Inside Higher Ed by Shari Wilson, “The Surprising Process of Writing,” jibes with my observations over the last few years: many students do better with in-class handwritten essays than with word-processed essays written outside of class. My evidence is only anecdotal, but it’s…

Go create something. I don’t care what, how much it cost, the purpose, or the form, but the result must be supremely innovative, worth every penny, and profoundly significant to the human race. Take your time.

The reasonable person finds this overwhelming. Creativity’s root is the tension filled conflict between the imagination and the physical: input and output, insight and achievement, learning and performing. Remove conflict and there is no need for creativity. Imagination v. reality – like a courtroom battle — negotiation leads to creative solutions. In onerous jargon laden corporate speak: look for the win/win.

Blogging is all the rage at the moment and it’s being used in many different ways. Businesses are using blogs as a way to drive traffic to their websites and inform readers of new products, services or special offers they currently have. Individuals are blogging everything from the milestones in their child’s life…

Whether we’re webmasters, bloggers, or just students, we want our writing to be the best it can be. This is particularly true when writing about persuasive essay topics. The whole reason for writing the persuasive essay is to change someone’s mind about something. Hopefully, we have chosen a topic about which we…

During K.G. Schneider’s study, she tries to improve her writing by learning from other writers, such as teachers and other students. She came up with 18 things that she has learned from others on writing: Write a lot. Read a lot. Schedule your writing. Seek the community of other writers. Read your works in progress out loud. When in doubt…

Ask Metafilter has a good discussion on how to take notes when reading. The readers have suggestion couple of tools such as paper notes, index card, personal wiki, software and so on. It is interesting to see many people who uses similar tools but different note taking method. For instance: … 1. In part, I…

We are all creative, but being “a creative” usually refers to someone for whom creativity is life’s goal: Illustrator, Architect, Advertising Art Director, Writer, Musician, Photographer, Designer, Etc. Scientists, Surgeons, Marketing Managers, CEO’s and other problem solving discovery professions are among our species most creative members, but typically don’t get the label.

Brian Fling from Blue Flavor talks about a term called Thought Leadership. From Wikipedia, Thought Leader is: … a buzzword or article of jargon used to describe a person who is recognized among his or her peers for innovative ideas and demonstrates the confidence to promote those ideas. The term can also be applied to…

Over at Juicy Studio, they have a tool on testing how readable the content is. You can test any online document by entering the URL into the page. It will return couple of reading level scores, including Gunning Fog, Flesch Reading Ease, and Flesch-Kincaid. Even though they are just algorithms, they can be a…

As a self employed writer, I am certainly able to attest to the fact that the written word has the power to heal. However, you don’t have to be an experienced or eloquent writer to receive the self healing benefits that writing has to offer. All that is required is that you channel…