Wilbers: Topics & exercises

Topics
Writing Exercises

Active/passive voice
Administrative writing
Angry letters
Annoying phrases: "went missing" and others
Answers to readers' queries
Apology and customer relations letters
Apostrophes
Applications:

Jobs

Letters

Artificial intelligence, language, and you
Better writing:
Email courses
Online guides
Bibliography: Resources and recommended reading

Blogs & newsletters
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness:

Chronology

Story: "In Search of a Whole, Live Moose"
Bureaucratic writing
Business writing: Article published in The College Board Review
Capitalization rules

Checklists:
Editing

Style & personality
Writing
C lassical schemes: From Cicero to Prince
Clichés & figurative language
Closings
Collaborative writing
Coherence, sentence to sentence
College application essays

Commas

Nonrestrictive commas (with which but not that)

Rules for commas

Skydiving with nonrestrictive commas
Complaint letters
Compound words:
Spelling with or without hyphens
Computers & language
Concise writing
Conflict resolution
Confusing word pairs

Connecting through writing
Copy & imitate to learn stylistic technique
Correspondence: Use to build relationships
Counterfactual thinking:
Jane McGonigal
Criticism: How to offer
Customer relations and apology letters
Dangling Modifiers

Dashes
D ashes vs. hyphens
Deadlines
Dictionaries: Paper & online
Defensive vs. supportive communication:
Jack Gibb
Editing checklist
Editing & revising: Techniques
Editing relationships: How to be a good critic
Editors, letters to

Elegance & beauty in business writing
Elements of effective writing, five
Elements of effective communication checklist
Email courses: Better Writing & Technique
Email: Do’s and don’ts
Error Checklist: 75 common errors
Essay test questions: Writing under time limit
Evidence, rules of

"Feeling poorly" usage
Figurative language & clichés
First person, writing in
Five elements of effective writing
Fundraising
Gibb, Jack:
Defensive vs. supportive communication behaviors
G ifts for June graduates
"Good Writing for Good Results":
Published in The College Board Review
"Got": misuse and overuse
Grammatical Affair: A Romance with Language (a novel)
Grant proposal writing
Guides to better writing
Habits of writing, seven (in honor of Stephen Covey)
Handwriting & texting

Hyphens

Hyphen rules
Hyphens & compound words
Hyphens, when to use them
Hyphens vs. dashes
Imitate to learn stylistic technique
Index to syndicated columns
International writing
Jack Gibb:
Defensive vs. supportive communication behaviors

Jane McGonigal:

Counterfactual thinking

Job applications & self-appraisals
Journaling, with style

June graduates: Gifts
"Lake Wobegon: Mythical Place and the American Imagination"

Leads (or ledes):

How to engage your reader
Legal writing
Letters of application
Letters of resignation
Letters to the editor
Managerial communication
McGonigal, Jane:
Counterfactual thinking
Messages, three-step
Minutes, how to write effective
Mission statements
Nature writing: Boundary Waters Chronology
News releases
Newsletters & blogs
Nonrestrictive commas
Nonrestrictive commas & skydiving

Numbers
U sage
Nine rules

Oral presentation skills
Compared with writing skills

PowerPoint review
Paragraphs
Parallel structure
Passive voice , uses
Performance reviews

Persuasive writing:
Columns
Using logos, pathos, & ethos
Plagiarism
Plan, writing
Policies & procedures
PowerPoint Presentation: Workshop Review
PowerPoint: Making your point more powerfully
Prepositions: Use and over-use
Press releases
Prince & classical schemes
Procedures
Progress reports
Proofreading
Proofreading electronically produced text
Punctuation: FAQ
Quotation marks
Readers' queries:

"Feeling poorly" & other usage questions
Reading, the importance of
Recommended reading & references
Resignation letters
Résumés
Revising & editing: Techniques
Rogerian argument, persuasion
Rules of evidence
RULES, Rules, and rules
Sales letters and proposals
Salutations: FAQ
Say no, how to
"Scholars (sic) Walk" at the University of Minnesota
Self-appraisals & job applications
Sexist language: How to avoid
Skydiving & nonrestrictive commas
Speaking and writing skills, how they compare
Speeches (PowerPoint)
Spelling compound words, with or without hyphens
Storytelling, the power of

Stress points in sentences

Style:

Checklist

Five elements
In journaling
Monthly tips by email

Style sheets:

For company-wide consistency

CRI’s “No-Excuse 10?
Stylistic technique through imitation
Subject-verb agreement
Teachers: A tribute
Technical writing & technical writers
Technology's influence on reading, writing, and thinking
Texting, handwriting, & language
Thank-you letters
Threatening communication,
vs. trust-inspiring

Usage:

Confusing word pairs

Correct word choice
Verbs: Agreement with subjects
Vocabulary:

Columns
Lynell's w orkplace word list
"Went missing" and other annoying phrases
White papers
Who or whom?

Word choice:

Confusing word pairs

Correct usage
"Word Crimes": 29 errors from "Weird Al" Yankovic's music video
Wordiness: Patterns to eliminate
Workshop Review (PowerPoint)
Writer’s block
Writing checklist
Writing guides
Writing internationally
Writing plan

Writing for the web