Topics & Free Resources                                                      Top
Alzheimer's & Mom: "Dancing in Avalon," a story
American Sign Language (ASL)
Angry letters
Annoying phrases: "went missing" and others
Answers to readers' queries
Apology and customer relations letters
Apostrophes
Application letters
Bibliography: Resources and recommended reading
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness: 
     Nature writing
Bureaucratic writing
Business writing: Article published in The College Board Review
Capitalization rules
China Connection:
     English for Chinese business writers, tour guides, and diplomats
Clichés & figurative language
Closings
Collaborative writing
Coherence, sentence to sentence
College application essays
Commas (nonrestrictive) & skydiving
Commas with that and which
Complaint letters
Compound words:
     Spelling with or without hyphens
Computers & language
Concise writing
Confusing word pairs
Correspondence: Use to build relationships
Criticism: How to offer
Customer relations and apology letters
Dangling Modifiers
Dashes vs. hyphens
Deadlines
Dictionaries: Paper & online
Editing & revising: Techniques
Editing relationships: How to be a good critic
Editors, letters to
Elegance & beauty in writing: The Elegance
     of the Hedgehog
Elements of effective communication checklist
Email: Do’s and don’ts
Error Checklist: 75 common errors
Essay test questions: Writing under time limit
ESL (English as a Second Language)
Evidence, rules of
Figurative language & clichés
First person
Fund-raising
Gifts for June graduates
Golden Pen Awards
"Got": misuse and overuse
"Good Writing for Good Results":
       Article published in The College Board Review
Grammatical Affair: A Romance with Language (a novel)
Grant proposal writing: Links, resources, & columns
Habits of writing, seven (in honor of Stephen Covey, 1932-2012)
Handwriting & texting
Hyphens and compound words
Hyphen rules, when to use
Hyphens vs. dashes
Imitate to learn stylistic technique
Index to syndicated columns
Job applications
Journaling, with style
June graduates: Gifts
Legal writing, columns
Letters of application
Letters of resignation
Letters to the editor
Libraries, importance of
Loft Literary Center (Minneapolis):
       Programs, resources, and services for writers
Managerial communication
Messages, three-step
Minnesota Authors Campaign,
      in support of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minutes, how to write effective
Mission statements
Nature's Gallery: Photos from poet John Caddy
Nature writing: Boundary Waters Chronology
News releases
Newsletter checklist
Nonrestrictive commas
Nonrestrictive commas & skydiving
Numbers usage: Nine rules
Oral presentation skills (PowerPoint)
Paragraphs
Parallel structure
Passive voice, uses
Performance reviews
Persuasive writing
Persuasive writing: Using logos, pathos, & ethos
Poetry: Weekly poems from Ted Kooser
Policies & procedures
PowerPoint Presentation: Workshop Review
PowerPoint: Making your point more powerfully
Prepositions: Use and over-use
Press releases
Procedures & Policies
Progress reports
Proofreading
Proofreading electronically produced text
Publication, Writing for (articles by Scott Edelstein)
Punctuation: FAQ
Quotation marks
Readers' queries: Answers
Recommended reading & references
Resignation letters
Résumés
Resources for graduating high school seniors
Revising & editing: Techniques
Rogerian persuasion
Rules of evidence
RULES, Rules, and rules
Sales letters and proposals
Salutations: FAQ
Say no, how to
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 to convey information
Style: Five elements
Style: In journaling
Style: Monthly tips by email
Style & personality: A checklist
Style Sheet: CRI’s “No-Excuse 10”
Stylistic technique through imitation
Subject-verb agreement
Teachers: A tribute
Technical writing & technical writers
Texting, handwriting, & language
Thank-you letters
Usage: Confusing word pairs
Verbs: Agreement with subjects
Vocabulary: Lynell's workplace word list
"Went missing" and other annoying phrases
White papers
Who or whom?
Word choice: Confusing word pairs
Wordiness: Patterns to eliminate
Workshop Review (PowerPoint)
Writer’s block
Writing internationally

Free Exercises                                                                    Top
Abusage: Word-choice errors (PowerPoint)
Assessment, writing: 15-point quiz (PowerPoint)
Coherence, sentence to sentence
Commas, nonrestrictive (PowerPoint)
Concise writing: Techniques to eliminate wordiness
Dangling Modifiers (PowerPoint)
Exercises linked to columns
Errors, common: Editing sentences (PowerPoint)
Errors, common: Editing paragraphs (PowerPoint)
Grammar: Take the challenge
Hyphens in Unit Modifiers (PowerPoint)
Internet: As a teaching tool
M.B.A. Exam
M.O.T. Exam
Nonrestrictive commas (PowerPoint)
Numbers usage
Numbers usage (PowerPoint)
Parallel structure
Passive voice, exercises
Plain English: The SEC’s A Plain English Handbook
Proofreading: Take the challenge
Proofreading quiz
Punctuation errors: The no-excuse 12 (plus The big 3)
Punctuation: Take the challenge
Vocabulary: Columns, exercises, and word list
Vogue words (PowerPoint)
Word choice: Take the challenge
Wordiness, eliminating
Workshop PowerPoint exercises
Writing assessment: Column
Writing assessment: 15-point quiz (PowerPoint)