Friday, September 10, 2010

CORDIS Wire

CORDIS Wire Clarity's Lisbon conference - press release

Friday, April 23, 2010

Center for Plain Language

Center for Plain Language: "A communication is in plain language if the people who are the audience for that communication can quickly and easily

* find what they need
* understand what they find
* act appropriately on that understanding"

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Alan Siegel: Let's simplify legal jargon! | Video on TED.com

Alan Siegel: Let's simplify legal jargon! | Video on TED.com: "Tax forms, credit agreements, healthcare legislation: They're crammed with gobbledygook, says Alan Siegel, and incomprehensibly long. He calls for a simple, sensible redesign -- and plain English -- to make legal paperwork intelligible to the rest of us."

Sunday, March 07, 2010

"Is there anything higher than thought?
Yes, meditation is higher than thought.
(Chandogya Upanishad)

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Ten rules for writing fiction | Books | guardian.co.uk

Ten rules for writing fiction | Books | guardian.co.uk: "Get an accountant, abstain from sex and similes, cut, rewrite, then cut and rewrite again – if all else fails, pray. Inspired by Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing, we asked authors for their personal dos and don'ts"

Thursday, December 03, 2009

Wes Nisker

Dharma teacher and stand up comic (biology flavour)
Audio talks at http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/191/

Monday, December 08, 2008

Holt Uncensored � The Ten Mistakes

Holt Uncensored � The Ten Mistakes: "Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)"

Monday, October 13, 2008

Copy editing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Copy editing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The “Five Cs” summarize the copy editor's job: make the copy (i) clear, (ii) correct, (iii) concise, (iv) comprehensible, and (v) consistent; that is: make it say what it means, and mean what it says. Typically, copy editing involves correcting spelling, punctuation, grammar, terminology and semantics; ensuring that the typescript adheres to the publisher's house style; and adding headlines and standardized headers, footers, etc."

Friday, September 26, 2008

about pleonasms (waffle words)