Writing
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Jokes, Hoaxes & Other Literary Frauds
Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk or The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed by Maria Monk
Academic Writing
My Tribute to Evernote: A Student's Guide
Every once and a while something comes along that causes me to wonder: Why isn't everyone using this (or something like it)?
Collaborative Writing
Next: Computer-based Authoring Systems Up: Collaborative Authoring & Previous: Collaboration and Collaborative What is collaborative authoring or writing? One definition is: activities involved in the production of a document by more than one author, then pre-draft discussions and arguments as well as post-draft analyses and debates are collaborative components. [ 1 ] Based on this definition, the collaborative authoring process includes the writing activity as well as group dynamics.
Gobby
Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat.Release Notes: This is the "halfway there" release, which includes a more standardized codebase, administration, and improved interoperability (ESPI and response service). Release Notes: Beyond a number of bugfixes and clean-ups, the codebase was standardized, and now includes files for generating deb archives.
SynchroEdit – Freecode
Today’s post is a reprint of my recent column in Inside Higher Ed , called “The ‘Be Yourself’ Myth.”
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Style
Rhetorics
Textual harassment | TLS
I n May 1962, Old Street Magistrates Court found Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell guilty of acts of “sheer malice and destruction from which the public must be protected”.
This lesson looks at 10 different ways to make your writing academic or more formal.
10 ways to make your writing more academic | Dominic Cole's IELTS Blog
When News Was Illuminated: Media Innovation In The Manuscript Era | Charlie Beckett
I’ve just been reading Elizabeth Eisenstein’s classic account of the Printing Press As An Agent Of Change which shows how Gutenberg’s innovation helped shape profound transformations in religion, science, politics and art in the Middle Ages. But a wonderful new exhibition of illuminated manuscripts from the Royal collections shows that there was also incredible diversity, imagination and craft in communications before the advent of movable type. To be honest, you should just go and see ‘ Royal Manuscripts: The Genius Of Illumination’ at the British Library because it is so beautiful.Creative
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