This is take two of an article I wrote a few weeks back (when I had a brain!). It’s a companion piece to the one for college students with FMS—an introduction to FMS for educators. I’d appreciate feedback from anyone…
Foo
It’s terribly frustrating to finish a couple of new articles and edits to some old ones, then be unable to upload them to one’s server. I’m not a patient woman, but I never claimed to be one, either.
The Good and the Bad
The good: Method cleaners rock. I rock for finding and buying them. So there. I bought a basic array of Method products and left them for the maids to use this week. Not only did the products work well, the…
Remember That Article?
A while back, I asked for input about an article I wrote on fibromyalgia and college. The National Fibromyalgia Association published it in their newsletter! Back to School Current Mood: 🙂excited
Grade On That Paper!
I got a 14 out of 15 possible points. That one point was taken off for “occasional lapses in APA style.” I knew I should have gotten a style guide. The prof said, “The writing style is clear, at an…
Inflicting Something Boring On You
But I wrote the damned thing, so I might as well hope that somebody other than my professor reads it at some point. Formal Paper on Fibromyalgia Syndrome I realize that very few people will have any interest, but there…
An Explanation
I’ve identified one reason that many documents produced by “technical communicators” are so unreadable. Our professors consider someone who uses “foregrounding” rather than “focusing on” in an article to be an authority.
More Feedback, Please?
One of my other assignments is to create a patient information brochure about fibromyalgia. I’ve uploaded it to my website as a PDF and would appreciate any constructive criticism you care to give me. It’s designed to be printed as…
What Do You Think?
One of the assignments for my medical communications course is to write a feature article about my chosen topic (fibromyalgia), to be submitted for publication. Feedback, please? Edit: Reworked to include some of your wonderful suggestions. Thank you 🙂
Happy
sambear took an article I was writing for a school assignment off the printer and read it. He says he thought I was printing something I’d found in a magazine or newspaper somewhere! Current Mood: productive