Your Audience is Not Like You
This thesis keeps occurring to me and I need to give it a draft or two. It’s a variation on the cliché that you shouldn’t…
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Take the Critique, Not to Heart
The final assignment for my writing class is a comprehensive article built from everything we practice over the semester—plus a publishing plan. I tell students…
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An Open Letter to Jack
Dear Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Twitter, On March 1st, you outlined the challenges and anger facing your platform. We’re committing Twitter to help…
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In Defense of Wikipedia
Each week, I give my interactive communication students a theme focusing on a key element of the Web and that element’s influence on our culture.…
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A Stranger is Worth More Than a Friend
The campaign to delete Facebook is trending again. I say again, because this isn’t the first time. Facebook lost 6 million users in mid-2011 after…
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You Are Not A Visual Learner
You are far more intelligent than that. I wrote about how scientists disproved the hypothesis that right-brained people are creative and left-brained people are analytical.…
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You Write Your Voice
The Interactive Voice is the name of my first course and book. Choosing a title is always tough, but I’m confident now; I chose the…
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Words Teach Us How to Interact
My boss and some of Quinnipiac’s interactive students did an analysis of the words in our course titles since the start of the program. I…
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The Most Precise Word in the Dictionary
One of the ideas behind my writing course is that for every classic writing form—the sentence, the citation, the argument, the resume—there is a counterpart…
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Troll Thyself
In the fourth week of The Interactive Voice—or in the fourth chapter, if you’re following along at home—the main assignment is to identify an argument…
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