Helping people write
Steven published an excellent post the other day on how he stays motivated to blog everyday, with some really helpful tips from a great article.
This week I came upon some other helpful and interesting bits on writing:
Fifty Writing Tools
[Poynteronline 14 apr '04 viewed 28 jan '05]
Roy Peter Clark is posting a writing tip every week for 50 weeks. He emphasizes that these are tools, not rules, and his tips span everything from proper grammar to character development to good journalism. Great quick reference if you hit a writing block. Alternately, use it as your own free online writing course. In terms of staying motivated, you can use one tip a week to focus on in your daily writing, so you have a goal to work towards.
Creating Policies for Results (CPFR) Workforms
[E-Learn Libraries c/o e-learning@PLA viewed 28 jan '05]
PLA and E-Learn have teamed up to develop and produce online courses for librarians based on the ALA Results series of books. A This page contains free workforms (developed for the class) that help you put together various policies for your library. If you’re at a loss for where to start in developing a policy, it can be really hard to get motivated to write it at all, and these forms are a nice place to start. I wish I’d had these for my collection development class in library school.
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