Posted by shar on June 27, 2000, at 20:55:10
In reply to Andrew Weil on sweating..., posted by dj on June 26, 2000, at 23:04:45
I do all kinds of writing. For the more fun stuff, for a small circle of friends, I will write their advertising materials and brochures, or critique their writing. I will also help them tighten up their information gathering and demographic data. (My friends don't mind that I sweat a lot.)
Plus I write the fun and funny poem or two. This year, I closed a conference with a poem I wrote that was decidedly tongue-in-cheek. People were quite amazed that I could make words rhyme. (rhyming dictionary, anyone?)
I mainly write about research, methodology, lit review, research results, analysis and interpretation, ad nauseum., program evaluation, writing, social science, finishing dissertations (I did that for a class I taught), white papers for work, briefing materials, training materials, etc. I will usually end up being the office editor wherever I go; I always warn people that I'm vicious, but they keep coming.
Way back when I was in grad school I was co-author on some journal articles, and of course there is always the good old thesis and then dissertation!
Who was it that said "Writing is easy. You just sit down and open a vein..." ?
I would like to find a dictionary of adjectives. I hate the current passion of turning nouns into verbs by adding -ize, and the move toward content-free language.
How about you?
Shar
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