November
2005:
Salutations: FAQ updated with guidelines for
addressing married couples when one person has a professional title and the
other does not, as in Dear Dr. and Mr. Smith
PowerPoint exercises from my writing
workshops on word choice, common errors, dangling modifiers, hyphens in unit
modifiers, and numbers usage
October
2005:
New column on
deadlines
September
2005:
My
weekly column distributed by email now
available on a six-month subscription basis
August
2005:
PowerPoint presentation on when to use
nonrestrictive commas
July
2005:
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
history updated with information about outdoor
adventurer Lloyd Skelton's disappearance
May
2005:
Link to Mary Alice Hansen's newly published Boundary Waters book,
Sawbill History and Tales
New gray wolf population figures added to
Boundary Waters Chronology
April
2005:
Weekly poem, Ted
Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” column
Link to the
Ernest Oberholtzer webpage
Links to amazon.com added to
Recommend Reading & Resources
Web Style Guide
link
March
2005:
Word choice errors,
as identified by the
“pickiest
wordsmiths”
of the Minneapolis Star Tribune (an exercise)
This Northern Nonsense: The Life of
Ernest Oberholtzer in Verse
(book in progress)
February
2005:
The Grammar of our Desire: A Romance with Language
(book in progress)
Link to
Parallel structure
January
2005:
Style: Monthly tips by email
link added
Dictionaries added to
Contents page
December
2004:
PowerPoint presentation on
Oral Presentation Skills
New columns
delivered weekly to your inbox
November
2004:
Article about my teaching in the Center for the Development of
Technological Leadership
How to write
application letters
Boundary Waters Chronology
updated with information regarding the black bear population and the four
recorded incidents of bears attacking humans in Minnesota
Index to syndicated columns updated to include most recent columns
October 2004:
The story of winning academic acceptance for
American Sign Language (ASL)
Take the Proofreading Challenge:
A fun proofreading exercise
September 2004:
Weekly columns delivered to your inbox
Take the Grammar Challenge:
An assessment linked to an
Error Checklist
Error Checklist
Take the Punctuation Challenge:
An assessment linked to an
Error Checklist
August 2004:
Writers Free Reference added to
Links to online writing resources
PowerPoint: How to use,
a column identifying the do's and don'ts of effective PowerPoint
presentations
Workshop Review: PowerPoint Presentation
for participants in my writing workshops and seminars
"In Search of a Whole, Live Moose,"
a story, originally published in 1988, about my
son's first canoe trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
Boundary Waters Chronology for nature
writers
Link to
Resources and recommended reading
December 2003:
Advice on how to write an effective
résumé
November 2003:
New winner of the
Golden Pen Award
October 2003:
New link to
The Loft Literary Center (Minneapolis): Programs and
services for writers.
See other
links
to online resources for writers
May 2003:
Sixth
Golden Pen Award
March 2003
A second copyediting exercise, based on an
M.O.T. Final Exam
College Board Review article,
the article that got me started as a writing consultant
February 2003:
Third column, "The do's and dont's of saying thank you," under
Thank-you letters
January 2003:
Second column under
Thank-you letters
Columns on
"Email: Do's and Don'ts"
New review of my book
Keys to Great Writing
January 2003:
Link added to William Sabin's
The Gregg Reference Manual, a guide
widely used by on-the-job writers. Also, see
Links to online writing resources.
Additional columns on these topics:
Grant proposal writing
Legal writing
Sales letters & proposals
A copyediting exercise, based on an
M.B.A. Final Exam
