m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

Feel resistance to writing a book, shipping a product, completing a marketing plan, or trying something new? If you have ever felt resistance in doing what you know you should be doing, then Steven Pressfield’s book, Do The Work, is the book for you. In Do The Work, Steven categorizes all the various forms of [...]

In perusing the job sites today, I realized that writing for search engine optimization is not a topic that I remember seeing in any of the technical writing textbooks I’ve reviewed over the past few years. When looking at jobs for web content managers, I realized how important writing for search engine optimization is for [...]

National Geographic Traveler is running an essay contest for undergrad and grad students. Winner gets a trip to Mongolia. Deadline 12/31/2007.

It’s completely drafted! Meta on the draft (which will no doubt change): 14,875 words in the body, 77 sources cited at the end, the last word: work. yes, it was. Now, the calm before I tackle revisions… I may just live large, make some popcorn and have a beer. Tonight, I will sleep like the [...]

Things are looking up around here. I’m figuring out that, yes, I can write a thesis. Parts of it I even like. This last chapter is a case study of my professional writing class and I’m writing about the ways that I have updated the course to include digital literacies. I’m enjoying looking back over [...]

I would answer Trimbur’s question, “should writing be studied?” with a yes. However, by answering yes to that question does not mean that I want to pick one narrow definition of Writing or want to answer no to “should we study rhetorics?” I want rhetorics and writings. As a gta, I need the studying of [...]

In John Foraker Swings, Misses, Rebecca Blood writes about how her opinion of the Annie’s brand dropped because of how CEO John Foraker misled readers about how the nutritional contents of Annie’s Mac & Cheese compares to Kraft’s Macaroni and Cheese. Blood argues, and rightly so, that Foraker needs someone to help him with the [...]

I’ve been playing with a new (to me) piece of software: Notebook, by Circus Ponies. I used the free 30 day trial to test it out, and I just took the plunge and paid $29.95 for an academic license. I really like the software. I can choose the type of paper type that I like. [...]

So y’all already know how cool Merlin at 43 Folders is with all his way cool posts on how to hack life and GTD. Well, check out his latest post: Solve problems by writing a note to yourself. Go on. Do it now. Stop waving your arms around already. Get some light.

I want to talk about blogging and writing across the curriculum. However, there are many times I feel much as Will R does…