m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

Below is a proposal that I submitted for the EGSA (English Grad Student Association). If this proposal flies, I will be giving a talk on Friday, Feb. 17th at the Write to Learn Conference and then again on Saturday, Feb. 18th at the EGSA Conference! Thankfully, I’m not presenting at 4Cs this year [...]

Montana Writing Project Bibliography. I just stumbled upon this bibliography by accident. Part of it has a good lists of computers and writing texts. If someone was going to put together a short list of BIG texts in computers and writing, this looks like a good start.
Oh, look, they kept a blog!
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Ok, so I was over at Cheeky Prof where CP linked to the Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004. I took a look at the map and was happy considering Kerry was up and then caught this funny quip:
If you ever write some document and can arrange for 600,000 proofreaders, I highly recommend it. You [...]

Isn’t this self-evident yet? From the NCTE website:
PLEASE DO NOT SEND US THE ONLY MATERIAL IN EXISTENCE��ALWAYS KEEP A COPY FOR YOURSELF.
I’m laughing that they would still have to publish this guideline after all of the years that we have been using computers to do word processing. It would seem evident on the [...]

I’ve been hanging onto a blog post by John Porcaro that I’d printed about Bill Jenson’s book, The Simplicity Survival Handbook.
I wanted to remember his advice regarding email that gets acted upon.
Know, Feel, Do:
1. Tell me the one thing you want me to know.
2. Tell me why I should care.
3. Tell what [...]