When it comes to professional writing, one must think about their audience when drafting a document. The audience has much to do with what style to choose, word usage and vocabulary, and overall tone. If a writer is speaking to the CEO of a company, he or she may be more formal than replying to […]
As a Creative Writer
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College; the best four years of your life or, at least, some of the best. When you grow into an adult, steadily being hurtled towards responsibilities, careers, and life defining decisions. It’s overwhelming, exciting, suffocating, and nerve-wracking. As a creative writing major, I am thoroughly acquainted with this rollercoaster of emotions, especially when the casually […]
Tips for Getting into SEO
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Tips for Getting into SEO Recently I read an article about getting into the field of SEO (Search Engine Optimization), and there were some key things I took away from the article. It’s important to have some basic website skills, which include a knowledge of words like blog, html, CSS, SEO, WordPress, Analytics, etc. The author recommends […]
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Learning About Ethics
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I have parents that have instilled ethics as an important component of being a kind human being. However, even though I know how to be ethical when push comes to shove, there is a specific time in my life that I witnessed a peer do an ethical act even when though no one was watching. […]
Re: The Earth is flat and ‘they’ don’t want you to know
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The Article Beginning of the Kernel Article by Joseph L. Flatley In the year 1543, the Pope teamed up with Copernicus, the Church of England, and possibly Aristotle (who, inconveniently, had died in 322 B.C.) to convince unsuspecting Europeans that, … Continue reading →
Re: A call to deal with the data deluge
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Article by Nature All professional scientists are expected to publish; if they do not publish, their employers, whether it is a university or a for-profit company, will look to hire more published specialists. The more published you are, the more … Continue reading →
Re: Why interdisciplinary research matters
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Article by Nature What does interdisciplinary research mean? Interdisciplinary research typically involves specialists from multiple backgrounds and fields offering expertise on a complex topic, like the causes and effects of global warming or why the function of a protein can … Continue reading →
What About Building a Person?
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With students nowadays, there’s a constant strive towards creating the perfect information spewing machine. What about building a person? A young adult? There are a select few teens and young adults who manage to be born built to absorb information
Make Good Art
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About a year ago I stumbled across a speech Neil Gaiman gave at a commencement ceremony and the speech is something I find myself coming back to again and again. He opens his speech with saying, whoever you are, whatever you do, “you have the ability to make art.” When life gets rough, “make good […]
Lane Stadium: The best college football stadium in the nation
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Blacksburg, Virginia is a small town defined by the university that sits in the center of it — Virginia Tech. Blacksburg is a quiet place. It is your standard college town that fosters over 20,000 students each year. Ranked the seventh safest city in Virginia, Blacksburg is a place of serenity and peace. However, on fall […]
As a Professional and Technical Writer…
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My values as a technical writer — being concise — may appear to contradict the principles I prize as a creative writer — imagery — when in actuality they compliment one another. For professional writing, the one concept that is important … Continue reading →