Category Archives: essays

About Using Active Verbs

Posted on April 11, 2008 by joanvinallcox

Cathy Moore helps people learn how to replace is/are/ etc. with more active verbs. Check it out – http://blog.cathy-moore.com/?p=207 – It’s short, it’s fun, and it makes its point clearly. (Am I contradicting her point? ;->)

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Generating a Table of Figures

Posted on March 19, 2008 by joanvinallcox

I enjoy playing with new applications, and I enjoy figuring out how to use them to accomplish tasks. My previous post was a screencast showing how to automatically generate a Table of Contents, something that is very easy once you see the steps. This post is focussed on how to automatically generate a Table of View Post

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iShowU, Bliptv, & Tables of Content in Word

Posted on March 15, 2008 by joanvinallcox

I have just had a fun couple of hours making and uploading my first screencast, just under 5 minutes long. You can see the results here: I have found many people don’t know how to use Styles in MSWord, and many other word-processing applications, to automatically generate a Table of Contents. I think this is View Post

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Has the Computer and the Web Changed Writing?

Posted on January 17, 2008 by joanvinallcox

I was at a session for writing instructors today; we were discussing whether we could actually teach students how to edit their writing. As we talked about our various approaches, I remembered the room I boarded in my last year as an undergrad. I remembered how small it was and how the roof sloped over View Post

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