Topics & Free Resources                                                      Top
Alzheimer's & Mom: "Dancing in Avalon," a story
American Sign Language (ASL)
Annoying phrases: "went missing" and others
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
Collaborative writing
Coherence, sentence to sentence
College application essays
Commas with that and which
Complaint letters
Compound words: Spelling with or without hyphens
Concise writing
Customer relations and apology letters
Dangling Modifiers
Dashes vs. hyphens
Deadlines
Dictionaries: Paper & online
Elements of effective communication checklist
E-mail: Do’s and don’ts
Error Checklist: 75 common errors
ESL (English as a Second Language)
Evidence, rules of
Fund-raising
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
Hyphens and compound words
Hyphens vs. dashes
Index to syndicated columns
Journaling, with style
Legal writing, columns
Letters of application
Libraries, importance of
Links to online writing resources
Link to Merriam-Webster Online
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
Nature's Gallery: Photos from poet John Caddy
Nature writing: Boundary Waters Chronology
Newsletter checklist
Nonrestrictive commas
Numbers usage: Nine rules
Online writing resources
Oral presentation skills
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: How to use
PowerPoint: Oral presentation skills
Prepositions: Use and over-use
Procedures & Policies
Proofreading
Proofreading electronically produced text
Publication, Writing for (articles by Scott Edelstein)
Punctuation: FAQ
Quotation marks
Recommended reading & references
Résumés
Resources for graduating high school seniors
Rogerian persuasion
Rules of evidence
RULES, Rules, and rules
Sales letters and proposals
Salutations: FAQ
Say no, how to
Sexist language: How to avoid
Speeches, PowerPoint presentation
Spelling compound words, with or without hyphens
Style manual: University of Minnesota
Style: Five elements
Style: In journaling
Style: Monthly tips by e-mail
Style & personality: A checklist
Style Sheet: CRI’s “No-Excuse 10”
Subject-verb agreement
Teachers: A tribute
Technical writing & technical writers
Thank-you letters
University of Minnesota style manual
Verbs: Agreement with subjects
Vocabulary: Workplace word and Lynell's list
"Went missing" and other annoying phrases
White papers
Who or whom?
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
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
Word choice: Take the challenge
Wordiness, eliminating
Workshop PowerPoint exercises
Writing assessment: Column
Writing assessment: 15-point quiz (PowerPoint)