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With online technical writing certification, you will be able to communicate technical material through online documentation, reports and manuals. The syllabus of this program is designed to teach the concepts and practices that are used in technical environments. The program is tailor made for individuals looking to give their career a boost. Objectives of Online Technical Writing Certification With an online technical writing certification, you will get skills that are necessary to communicate technical details in a wide variety of forms to satisfy specific audience requirements. A lot more emphasis is put on project management, developing user manuals, organization, documenting routines and policies and online formats writing documentation. Who Can Benefit from Online Technical Writing Certification Online technical writing certification is tailor made for technical personnel, administrative assistants who are required to process documents, computer science including programmers and database administrators, human resource analysts and scientific professionals. Course Structure When you take admission in an online technical writing certification program, you will learn about the technical communication profession, page design, HTML, desktop publishing, basic graphic techniques, user guides, technical reports and online helps. In addition, you will learn the software tools like Dreamweaver, FrameMaker and RoboHELP. If you are interested in working as a technical writer, you will require knowledge of these software tools. Earn an Online Technical Writing Certification To earn an online technical writing certification, you need to find an accredited online university that runs a certification program in technical writing. Once you get admission into technical writing program, you will receive study material from your university. This study material can come in handy if you do not have the time to attend classes on a regular basis. As the syllabus of an online technical writing certification program is quite comprehensive, make sure you study daily rather than only on weekends. You need to take a final exam once you have studied all the core courses. In some cases, you also need to participate in a project to earn online technical writing certification. Career Opportunities By successfully earning an online technical writing certification, you can make a career in the field of creative writing, website copywriting, business writing, grant writing, academic writing and journalism. If you want to make a career in the field of teaching, you can easily do so with online technical writing certification and Bachelor degree. Visit at : Online Edu Blog

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Sunday, July 17th, 2005

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Sunday, July 17th, 2005

If you’re thinking of outsourcing a writing project - Web content, brochure text, an article, or whatever your writing needs may be - you may have some questions at to just how to go about choosing the right copywriter. There’s no shortage of writers, certainly. By doing a simple Internet search, polling friends and business acquaintances, or just flipping through the Yellow Pages, you can probably put together a decent list in pretty short order. There is, however, a shortage of particularly effective writers, and an even greater shortage of writers who are just right for your specific needs. So how to narrow the list to the right writer? Use what I call the “Three R’s”: References, Response, Rates. References Any writer you’re considering hiring ought to be experienced enough to have some testimonials he or she can share with you. Don’t be shy about asking for references. And try to get a reference from somebody who did a similar type of project to what you’re considering doing. If you’re having your Web content rewritten, find a writer who has a decent testimonial or two from a client whom the writer did Web content for. Along those same lines, ask to see actual samples of the writer’s work, and, again, from the same kind of project. Having a brochure written? Ask to see samples of brochures the writer in question has written. Requests like these are not troublesome to a professional writer. On the contrary. When I have somebody who I know is taking seriously their research into finding just the right writer, I know I have a prospective client who is going to be smart and educated about what to expect. And I know from experience that that kind of client always seems easier to work with in the long run than the kind of client who makes decisions in a less-careful way. Response When you contact a writer and leave a message, or send an e-mail, how long does it take before the writer gets back to you? Does he or she get back to you within an hour? The same day? Several days later? If you’re having trouble having a writer respond to you before you’ve even hired the writer, imagine how much more difficult it’s going to be once you’ve hired him or her and paid a deposit! No matter how busy a writer is, there is always time to return a phone call or an e-mail. Beyond being common courtesy, it just makes good business sense. The writer’s running a business after all. And if he or she doesn’t care about his or her own business (by ignoring potential clients), then it’s not very reasonable to assume he or she will care too much about yours. In addition to the response time of an inquiry, how the writer responds to you during your conversations with him or her is equally important. Is the writer listening to what you’re saying? Does the writer seem to have a good grasp on what the requirements of the project are? I once acquired a client who had originally talked to another writer who actually tried to talk the client out of what he wanted! The client had put a great deal of thought into a postcard campaign and, knowing his business well (he had been doing it for twenty years) knew what kind of angle he wanted to take with the campaign. He was simply looking for the right words. The other writer, meanwhile, after a mere five minutes on the phone with the client, thought he knew better and told the client the client’s whole approach was wrong and he should try a different one. Apparently, that particular writer forgot who the boss was in the client-writer relationship. Rates There’s a reason this “R” is the last of the three. It’s the least important. We’re all trying to save money, but in writing, as in most professions (maybe even more so) you really do get what you pay for. I’ve seen companies spend thousands and thousands of dollars on the design of a Web site, then hire a writer for fifteen bucks an hour to write the content. I’ve seen people with million-dollar, publishable book ideas, hire ghostwriters at rates that aren’t even appropriate for writing simple blog content. And then they wonder why the book project bogs down. Having said that, it is important to at least know what the project is going to cost. Make sure going in that you have a firm number from the writer. Don’t settle for an estimate based on a “projected number of hours.” A good writer should have a real clear understanding of the project, know how long it will take him or her, and price the project accordingly. Copyright 2009, Jerry Payne Jerry Payne is an experienced, professional copywriter. He can be found at .yourcopywriter.net

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

Custom dissertation writing paper will have some basic differences from the common research paper. In this case the paper will be customized in such a way so that it can rightly capture the needs of the student. Like other research papers this type of paper will also have the introductory sections, research methodology sections and the conclusion. The main emphasis will be on the research methodology section particularly the sampling techniques to be used, data collection techniques to be implied and the analysis tools to be deployed. The statistical research can take two forms. In the first, the scientist studies each and every unit or item of the field of survey called domain and derives conclusions by computing the sum of all units. This type of survey is called census survey. In the second, the scientist studies only some units in the field of survey and the survey of this type is known as sample survey. In the sample technique of survey some units are taken as representative of the whole field or domain and the conclusions of these sample units are extended to the whole field. In practice, normally sample survey method is used. In the census investigation every unit of the entire field or domain of survey is quantitatively studied; no unit is left unexamined in the survey of this type. For example, if we wish to study the examination achievement of all students in an institution, we shall have to gather the marks obtained by each student and classify them in I,II,III,20% or more, below 20% categories. This will give us data about the number of first class, second class, third class, below average, much below average students. The census of population is also done on this basis. Population count is the best example of census investigation. In census, a variety of information is elicited from every individual. When all the facts are in, these are analyzed from various angles, political, religious, economic, educational, technical etc. The results of these are highly significant. They tell us about the number of professional workers, executives, peasants, children, adult, old, male, female and so on in our country. These statistics form the backbone of all planning. Planning without these statistics will be nothing more than a visionary approach to problems. There are other types of sampling technique like random sampling. Of all the methods of selecting the samples, random sampling technique is made maximum use of and it is considered the best method of sample selection. In this technique every item or unit of the domain has an equal opportunity for this selection and this selection is in no way influenced by personal bias and predilection of the investigator. No item is selected on accounts of like or dislike of the investigator and the selection is left entirely to chance. This provides every item fair and equal chance for selection; so it is not investigators whim but nature which determines the selection. The sampling, data collection and analysis technique are the backbone of custom dissertation. PayelCache is an academic writer who provides useful information about dissertation and custom dissertation writing paper.

Writing is a very personal thing, I discovered. Some people have the talent for writing creative stuff. Some people have the talent for writing ads. Some write excellent factual stuff. Well, I fall into the factual stuff category. The boring-writing-technical-mumbo-jumbo writing stuff. How I fit into this category, I don’t know. Well, SEO article writing is very much like that. First, you decide what topic or keyword that you want. For instance, you’re selling decorative lamps, right? In the SEO article writing process, list down ‘decorative’ and ‘lamps’. Then think about other words that relates to ‘decorative’ and ‘lamps’…words that people use all the time to describe them. This is a very important part of SEO article writing because these are common words that your potential site visitors will use to find you. How about ‘light’, ‘bright’, ‘pretty’, ‘lighting’? Ok, now your SEO article writing keywords are: - decorative, lamps, light, bright, pretty and lighting, right? So, on to the SEO article writing process. First you write everything that you need to write down first. Beef up the article. As a general rule of thumb, SEO articles should be no less than 300 words and no more than 500 words. Any more than that, you’re wasting your writing a novel for your SEO article. Read through the SEO article now and replace words and reword sentences to fit in those keywords. Yes, you’ll have to restructure some the SEO keywords here and there, but do it anyway. Make sure the sentences make sense, ok? Because although the search engines won’t know bad grammar from good grammar, your site visitors will. And most of them, site visitors who visit your website based on those SEO keywords DO mind the bad grammar. And once you turn them away, it’s almost impossible to bring them back! The final step to SEO article writing is…..proofread your SEO article and make sure they flow. The problem with SEO writing is that your thoughts might come in buckets….a splash here and a splash there. So, during the SEO article proofreading process, you’ll have to make sure one paragraph flows on to the next. For more free resources visit here:- .perfect-ghost-writer.com .articlemarketing.infozabout.com

Online writing jobs provide recession-proof work for anyone who can read, write and has a computer. This is an easy career to start; one where you can literally start making money right away. So what types of work is available for those who want to work from home as a freelance writer, earning money completely online? Following are a few. Types of Online Writing Jobs 1. SEO Article Writing: What is this? SEO is the acronym for search engine optimization. Search engine optimization is just a fancy phrase for writing copy in such a way that it helps web surfers to easily find things online. For example, if you wanted to find out about SEO writing, what would you type into your favorite search engine to do that? You’d probably go to Google or Yahoo or MSN and type in “what is SEO” or “SEO copywriting?” Something along those lines, right? Then, pages and pages of results would pop up. Once they do, you’d start clicking to read up on the subject. The phrases “what is SEO” an “SEO copywriting” are called keyword phrases. SEO article writers write web content using keyword phrases supplied by the firms who hire them. You can make $15, $25, $35 or more per 350-500 word article as an SEO article writer. 2. Blogging for Internet Marketers and Affiliate Marketers: There are plenty of online writing jobs in the blogging sector. Why? Because there are affiliate marketers and other online marketers who make their living running several blogs at once. Some may operate 10, 50 or 100 blogs or more. And, they simply don’t have the time to write copy for all of them. So, they hire freelance writers to write blog posts. These posts are usually short — 150-250 words. The rate for this is usually in the $5 to $20 per post range. Although there are freelance blog writers who make much more, depending on the topic. 3. Special Report Writing for Corporate America: Another lucrative sector of the online freelance writing jobs market is special report writing. Companies hire freelance writers to produce special reports on everything from how to effectively work with a web designer to how to buy car insurance online. You can charge anywhere from $10 to $35 per page — on the low end, for these reports. Yes, per page! The reason companies are so willing to pay freelance writers to do special reports is that they use them as sales tools. They may use them as free giveaways for signing up to a newsletter, or as an enticement to take a one-day seminar (that cost a few thousand bucks). And, paying a freelance writer a few hundred dollars is a drop in the bucket compared to what these reports make for companies when used as sales tool. As you can see, there are many types of online writing jobs. And, you don’t need any special education to pursue them. All you need is a computer, a simple website, some marketing muscle and a desire to succeed. The beauty of starting an online writing jobs career is that you never have to worry about being laid off — ever. Now that’s job security! May be reprinted with the following, in full: To learn everything you need about how to start a lucrative online writing career as an SEO writer career, log on to Work-from-Home-Writing-jobs.com for first-hand information from a successful SEO copywriter. There are tons of testimonials from others who’ve found success in this freelance writing niche as well.

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

Infoquake, David Louis Edelman, 2008, ISBN 1844165825 This book takes place many years after the collapse of civilization. A group of sentient computers called the Autonomous Minds rebelled against mankind in the Autonomous Revolt. Now, Earth is dominated by bio/logics, the science of programming the human body. The programs have names like Eyemorph 1.0, DeMirage 24.5, Poker Face 83.4b and AntiSleepStim 124.7. The average person has thousands of such programs in their bodies, courtesy of microscopic robots placed at or before birth. Natch is a master of bio/logic programming, who has risen to the top with little more than brains and sheer determination. For many years, Margaret Surina, ancestor of Sheldon Surina, the inventor of bio/logics, has hinted about this new technology called MultiReal. She enters into a partnership with Natch and his fiefcorp to bring it to market immediately. It can take months to understand and develop a new technology, get it approved by Dr. Plugenpatch (a set of databases that constitute the quality control system), keep it away from the competitors, and then bring it to market. Natch and his colleagues have to do it in three days. The reason for the very short time frame is to also keep MultiReal away from the Defense and Wellness Council. It’s a secret and unaccountable government organization that handles all military and intelligence affairs. This is an excellent piece of writing. Cyberpunk fans will love it. Is there such a thing as “business cyberpunk?” This is also a really good book about the mixing of business and technology. The “cyber-” part is not too technical, and this is very highly recommended. Paul Lappen is a freelance book reviewer whose website, Dead Trees Review, has over 700 reviews on all subjects, with an emphasis on small press books.

Because I have admired the Spanish philosopher and art critic Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955) for many years, I have been reluctant to review any of his books. His writing style offers a peculiar angle of vision about culture, philosophy, and art. As a result for years I’ve been a consumer, always taking from his work and never giving anything back. But now it’s time to give something back. So, here are some very personal likes and dislikes. Ortega’s title of the book -The Dehumanization of Art- ?is now a constant in music, literature, aesthetics, and philosophy, having come to mean that in post-modern times human-shaped mimesis (representation of the human) is irrelevant to art. According to Ortega, the arts don’t have to tell a human story; art should be concerned with its own forms-and not with the human form. The essay, divided into 13 subsections, was originally published in 1925; in these brief sections Ortega discussed the newness of nonrepresentational art and sought to make it more understandable to a public much benumbed with the traditional forms of art. A search for the substance of traditional art In the first section entitled, “Unpopularity of the New Art,” Ortega draws from his political credo which one can say it is elitist, aristocratic, and anti-popular. His analysis concludes with the belief that some people are better than others; that some are superior to others: “Behind all contemporary life lurks the provoking and profound injustice of the assumption that men are actually created equal.” That unbending political point of view colors his aestheticism. The masses, he holds, will never understand the “new art” that was emerging with Debussy and Stravinsky (music), Pirandello (theater), and Mallarme (poetry). A lack of understanding will mobilize the masses -a term that Ortega uses frequently to refer to the common people- to dislike and reject the new art. Therefore, the new art will be the art for the illustrious, the educated, and the few. To bring that kind of divisive tool -the few versus the many, aristocrats versus democrats- into the arts seems not only narrow minded, but also disingenuous. Yet my main objection to Ortega’s analysis and conclusions is more fundamental. In my estimation, ‘understanding’ in the arts is of secondary importance. The arts are created by humans to reach out and touch other humans by means of appeals to their passions and emotions-through their senses. When I was 14 years old, by accident, I heard a musical composition that was so different and strange to my young ears that prompted me to call the radio station to find out about that piece. It was Appalachian Spring, a ballet composition by Aaron Copland. What 14-year old boy from the Andes (Peru) can be familiar with ballet or Aaron Copland to even begin to understand the composition? Yet, I liked it. And that is all that mattered to me. Understanding that piece of music, or even knowing the name of the composer, was as far away from my mind as was Einstein’s theory of relativity, since I had no idea who Einstein was either. Delight, enjoyment, and rapture one feels without expressed understanding. By extolling the new forms and promoting the vanguard artists and their efforts to produce non-traditional art, Ortega’s book had a significant influence in the rejection of realism and romanticism. So seductive and convincing was Ortega’s prose that many artists and critics began to equate both realism and romanticism with vulgarity. To allow a brilliant writer to exert so much authority should be a sin. For years Ortega’s authority has bothered me. Yet, despite that inner annoyance, my respect for the man’s writings inhibited me from protesting. So, by stripping Ortega’s dazzling prose of its seduction -by “bracketing” and performing a phenomenologist reduction- we can see it in its own nakedness for what it is: an elitist and pernicious point of view. People should never be made ashamed of their taste, likes, and dislikes in art. We should enjoy that touch of aesthetic delight whether it comes from primitive, Greek, Gothic, Romanesque, Baroque, realism, or romanticism, surrealism, or any period or movement. Ortega advocates the ‘objective purity’ of observed reality Following Plato’s division of reality into the forms (universals) and their simulacra, Ortega invents his own corresponding terms: ‘observed reality’ and ‘lived reality.’ The representation of real things (lived reality) - man, house, mountain- Ortega calls “aesthetic frauds.” Ortega totally dislikes objects be they man-made or natural: “A good deal of what I have called dehumanization and disgust for living forms is inspired by just such an aversion against the traditional interpretation of realities.” In contrast, the representation of ideas (observed reality) is what he views as the true art. Therefore, he praises the new art as the destroyer of semblance, resemblance, likeness, or mimesis. In that destruction of the old human forms of art lies Ortega’s “dehumanization.” Yet one must recall that more that more than 2500 years ago, the pre-Socratic philosopher Protagoras said, “Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.” Ortega’s will to “dehumanize” art will always run head on against Protagoras’ wall. Art by definition - anything that is man-made- is profoundly human and cannot be otherwise, Ortega notwithstanding. Even in the stark canvases of painters such as Mark Rothko one feels the artist’s humanity in search of the human soul through color and luminosity. Even in the random drippings of Jackson Pollock’s works one can sense man’s struggle for freedom. And what is freedom but a human aspiration? Conclusion Whenever I look at the shapes of primitive African art, the Paleolithic images of animals in the caves of Lascaux, or even the colorful and balanced grids of Mondrian-I’m in awe of the human spirit. And at such times I feel that labels, signs, markings, and explanations and descriptions (theories) are totally unnecessary. What we need are theories of art that can unite people rather than divide them. Ortega’s “dehumanization” is a toxic theory not because it advocates a detestable elitism, but because it attempts to deny the pleasures of art to the common people. Retired. Former investment banker, Columbia University-educated, Vietnam Vet (67-68). For the writing techniques I use, see Mary Duffy’s e-book: Sentence Openers. To read my book reviews of the Classics visit my blog: Writing To Live

Monday, July 11th, 2005

The first thing to note is that there are various English writing software tools existing. Quite a lot of people only use the English proofreading software that comes with their word processing software. However, there are some software packages that you can go out and buy special for your computer. If you are a person that needs help to write better English, and you find that you make not only a lot of spelling mistakes, but a lot of grammar mistakes as well, then this kind of software would be perfect for you. Of course, before you run out to the store and pick up any kind of English proof reading software, you should look for some reviews first. Reviews on English proof reading software is pretty easy to find.. By simply doing an internet search for some of these kinds of reviews, you can come up with tons of sites. Some sites seem to support certain types of English proofreading software only, however, you may not be getting the full story on other types of software programs. Fortunately by comparing these reviews with each other you will be able to tell which one will improve English writing skills for you and me. When you thought that you have found a software that is going to offer you the English grammar software that you were looking for, then you self-evidently only look for a good price on that product. That can also be done online. All you need to do is google’ing for that product and compare the price tags on this kind of English writing software till you find the lowest price possible and available. By doing just a little bit of searching on the internet, you will find that you are able to save a lot of money on these English writing software programs. These things can sometimes cost a lot of money, so if you are able to save any money on them at all, then it was worth your time. Searching for this kind of stuff is a lot easier online than it is in your local store. Not only that, but you are not going to have to spend money on gas driving to the store to find these kinds of programs. You can do it from the comfort of your own home. grammar software offers you a helping hand to buy the latest English proofreading software available in the stores. Michael Palmer is the owner of proofreading software. Check out his newest whitesmoke review.