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		<title>If I were a court reporter, I would never stop laughing.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Creel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It would be hard to be a court reporter and keep a straight face during these courtroom exchanges. Thanks to one of our readers for sending us the following excerpts from Charles M. Sevilla&#8217;s book, Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History.
ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writer&#8217;s Block? Brainstorm and keep the bad ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Creel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have writer&#8217;s block, or do you THINK you have writer&#8217;s block? Here&#8217;s a suggestion: embrace your bad ideas and let them lead to good ones. This is playwright and screenwriter Megan Cohen&#8217;s method for overcoming writer&#8217;s block and getting her creativity back to where it should be.
She writes that when she feels as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sexist 1940 Video Presents the Roles of Newspaper Staff</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Creel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Brain Pickings published a real gem of a newsreel (originally from Encyclopedia Britannica Films’ Your Life Work series) that provides a look into the history of what one might imagine as the typical newsroom in the 1940s. Explaining the need for speed and accuracy when gathering the news for the reading public, the narrator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I’d Rather Cuddle Then Have Sex. Really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Creel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ron Creel






We have recently been seeing people confuse the words then and than. The word then seems to be used when the writer should use than. Of course, several blogs have made fun of this word misuse. And Yahoo! has an answer to this as well.
Here’s rule:
THEN - An adverb. Means at that time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Write a 500 Word Essay That Will Get You Into College</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Creel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ron Creel






It&#8217;s college application season. Or at least it is in our house. The current challenge seems to be how a student applying for college can work within the 500-word limit imposed by the Common Application and create an essay that covers a significant event or achievement in the student’s life and will, hopefully, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moonwalking With Einstein: a useful book for writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Creel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ron Creel
I would not say that I have the best of memory skills. I&#8217;m limited to carrying a list of items in my head to pick up at the store that can be counted on only one hand. And if I stop thinking about the list, I&#8217;m lost. However, my visual memory is great. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is DITA and Why Should You Care?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrisbenz</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Chris Benz
“The key to understanding how DITA works is to understand how DITA uses topics, maps, and output formats. I will describe each of these in detail, but here&#8217;s the big picture: You develop your content in DITA topics, use DITA maps to specify which topics go into which deliverables, then process those maps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Endurance Training for Writers: A MasterMind Group is Secret to Publishing Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JT Long</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By JT Long
Writing is a challenging sport. Smart authors know they have to be disciplined, scheduling marathon creative sessions and pacing themselves so they can go the distance. Successful writers often take a team approach to publishing. By meeting regularly with a group of others pursuing the same dreams, they can share tips, resources and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Smart CEO’s Guide to Expert Author Status</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 16:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JT Long</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hiring a ghostwriter can help you stand out in your field by realizing your business plan to establish yourself as an expert author. It's easy if you know the basics.]]></description>
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		<title>Technical Writer ranks No. 13 with top jobs for 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Creel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[According to an analysis conducted by CareerCast.com, the job of Technical Writer ranks as one of the best jobs to have in 2010. For the complete list of the top 20 best and the top 20 worst jobs, see the Reuters article.
Top Jobs for 2010:

Actuary
Software engineer
Computer systems analyst
Biologist
Historian
Mathematician
Paralegal assistant
Statistician
Accountant
Dental hygienist
Philosopher
Meteorologist
Technical writer
Bank officer
Web developer
Industrial engineer

It&#8217;s rather [...]]]></description>
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