Posted By Cynthia Hartwig on May 20, 2013
When you’re pressed for time, it’s hard to write well. But believe it or not, it’s okay to write as fast as you can, churning out boring, repetitive, and overwritten drafts. Putting words on a page is always the most difficult part. It’s easy to revise them if you know these seven editing tips. They’ll [...]
Posted By Cynthia Hartwig on September 17, 2012
Therefore, what has been proposed above as a means of redirecting the development of postmodernity toward more livable, human dimensions is a heterotelic narrative transitivity—an active reimmersion of narrative in the social—which contrasts sharply with the autotelic concern for their own procedures and the hermetic intransitivity of modernist self-consciousness and late modernist self-reflexivity. —Joseph Francese, [...]
Posted By Emily Warn on March 12, 2012
There’s a small chance you haven’t heard the conversation that VIDA started in response to the Publishers’ Weekly list of the best books of 2009: it didn’t include any books by women. The PW editors offered a convoluted defense and VIDA started counting and hasn’t stopped. Each year VIDA tabulates the number of male vs. [...]
Posted By Cynthia Hartwig on February 12, 2012
I’ve been an advertising creative director for more than thirty years so I’ve seen plenty of great headlines. There’s a snap and crackle to a solid headline; a good one makes you smile; the truly great ones make you sit up to read more. Unfortunately, the blogosphere settles for a lot of lank and dank [...]
Posted By Emily Warn on April 10, 2011
What do whitepapers have in common with Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice? A well-written whitepaper won’t ever top the best-seller lists. It won’t snare as huge a business audience as Winning by Jack Welch. Or a business book about Jack Welch, for that matter.