Archive for December, 2008
Looking forward to 2009
As a follow on to my post of last week, here is my initial reading list for 2009. My focus is drawn towards the notion of community of practice–in this case the communities of practice related to scientific and technical writing we observe in the life science organizations where we consult and train. I also [...]
Happy Holidays
First off I want to wish everyone the very best this holiday season–a bit of good food mixed with laughter and smiles and a multitude of good memories.
A little random news looking back as well as forward in this holiday post.
I came across the following news piece on the death of VHS cassettes. The last [...]
Writing is the easy part!!
Two aspects of work relationships that many writers in the life sciences do not observe closely are managing organizational expectations for the syntactical and lexical aspects of their writing (sorry for using five dollar words here) and conflict resolution. What I mean by syntactical is how you choose to structure something in a report and [...]