The Right Writing Tips Think Tank Thread Or What to Write or What Not to Write Tips & Tricks

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Reply to @vedmak: I know nothing about the Hitchhikers Guide not because I have been living under a rock but because I think it is a very dangerous thing to do… accepting lifts of strangers lol

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Reply to @vedmak: I love science, so is this series based on any fact?

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Reply to @vedmak: I love science, so is this series based on any fact?

[wendym]

@scriptwizard: I tend to think of research reports as extremely stupid, mainly because they set students up to fail at the more profitable forms of professional writing which one may actually use later in life; essays, articles and technical papers. Strictly speaking one does not get paid for writing a technical paper, but writing a technical paper is kind of a requirement for grants which then allows one to pursue more research which then results in more technical papers ad infinitum.



And I think we all know a good essayist can make thirty or forty dollars a year 😉

[wendym]

@scriptwizard: I tend to think of research reports as extremely stupid, mainly because they set students up to fail at the more profitable forms of professional writing which one may actually use later in life; essays, articles and technical papers. Strictly speaking one does not get paid for writing a technical paper, but writing a technical paper is kind of a requirement for grants which then allows one to pursue more research which then results in more technical papers ad infinitum.



And I think we all know a good essayist can make thirty or forty dollars a year 😉

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Reply to @wendym: I see… I think a lot of things to do with the academic writing protocol is totally insane & counter-productive. The anal retentive insistence on students adopting the Harvard system of citation to the Nth degree & one comma or full stop out of place or chapter number not highlighted in brackets et cetera (why not being able to italic et cetera annoys me too), otherwise students get poor marks is a complete non-sense. I honestly wouldn’t recommend Uni degrees to anyone now that they are 3 times the cost for the same poor quality teaching… crazy waste of money & precious time that could be better spent enjoying & exploring life instead.

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Reply to @wendym: I see… I think a lot of things to do with the academic writing protocol is totally insane & counter-productive. The anal retentive insistence on students adopting the Harvard system of citation to the Nth degree & one comma or full stop out of place or chapter number not highlighted in brackets et cetera (why not being able to italic et cetera annoys me too), otherwise students get poor marks is a complete non-sense. I honestly wouldn’t recommend Uni degrees to anyone now that they are 3 times the cost for the same poor quality teaching… crazy waste of money & precious time that could be better spent enjoying & exploring life instead.

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Reply to @vedmak: obviously I have heard of Hitchikers guide but just that, heard of it. I’m into heavy science reading, totally fascinates me, to the point of absolute absorption. Magical, fascinating stuff is science. I don’t have any time for fanciful science based stuff when there’s enough factual science to amaze my imagination with, like the birth of stars, physics, chemistry, & okay string theory or serious theory is all part of that (including spacial dimensions but these would have to be from a devoted scientist’s mind as opposed to imaginative book writers).

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Reply to @vedmak: obviously I have heard of Hitchikers guide but just that, heard of it. I’m into heavy science reading, totally fascinates me, to the point of absolute absorption. Magical, fascinating stuff is science. I don’t have any time for fanciful science based stuff when there’s enough factual science to amaze my imagination with, like the birth of stars, physics, chemistry, & okay string theory or serious theory is all part of that (including spacial dimensions but these would have to be from a devoted scientist’s mind as opposed to imaginative book writers).

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Reply to @vedmak: Peter Atkins “The Periodic Kingdom” an excellent book I just love it. It inspired me to think that God everyone refers to could be in fact be named “Hydrogen” (briefly description: hydrogen smashes into hydrogen [gaseous gas cloud in volume/velocity] creates stars - the sun [like our sun a solar G2 star creates life… without a sun there simply is no life like us homo sapiens]). This book opens up a complete new perspective in learning about all the elements that is life (the periodic table etc.), Amazing stuff & not a hard read book either (I recommend reading it).

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Reply to @vedmak: Peter Atkins “The Periodic Kingdom” an excellent book I just love it. It inspired me to think that God everyone refers to could be in fact be named “Hydrogen” (briefly description: hydrogen smashes into hydrogen [gaseous gas cloud in volume/velocity] creates stars - the sun [like our sun a solar G2 star creates life… without a sun there simply is no life like us homo sapiens]). This book opens up a complete new perspective in learning about all the elements that is life (the periodic table etc.), Amazing stuff & not a hard read book either (I recommend reading it).

[wendym]

@scriptwizard: Agreed, the pedants make it ridiculously difficult when it doesn’t need to be. Professionally being able to translate “what I did last summer with my grant money” into a technical paper is a useful skill and isn’t nearly as tedious as research reports required in uni, what boggles me is that for some reason it’s not taught (even as an elective) either in college prep or universities-- even though you’ll find “technical writing” as an English requirement in almost every science program, it doesn’t actually cover the full composition of a technical paper (when I took it we dealt with the Chicago Style Guide and wrote even more research reports. I can now write headlines that will grab your attention and reports that will strangle it to death.)



Here in the USA, degrees help although the odds are one may not find a job within his chosen field, competition for jobs are so high that any arbitrary advantage makes the difference. To keep sane I try to attain a trade or technical certification every couple of years or so, and then throw them onto my resume. Sure, I may not have as many relevant qualifications as the next candidate but I’m a member of the Bodger’s guild (I even mentor applicant bodgers) and certified in skills that no other human might ever need to use in conjunction (at least I sincerely hope not)-- however, I am more or less sane.

[wendym]

@scriptwizard: Agreed, the pedants make it ridiculously difficult when it doesn’t need to be. Professionally being able to translate “what I did last summer with my grant money” into a technical paper is a useful skill and isn’t nearly as tedious as research reports required in uni, what boggles me is that for some reason it’s not taught (even as an elective) either in college prep or universities-- even though you’ll find “technical writing” as an English requirement in almost every science program, it doesn’t actually cover the full composition of a technical paper (when I took it we dealt with the Chicago Style Guide and wrote even more research reports. I can now write headlines that will grab your attention and reports that will strangle it to death.)



Here in the USA, degrees help although the odds are one may not find a job within his chosen field, competition for jobs are so high that any arbitrary advantage makes the difference. To keep sane I try to attain a trade or technical certification every couple of years or so, and then throw them onto my resume. Sure, I may not have as many relevant qualifications as the next candidate but I’m a member of the Bodger’s guild (I even mentor applicant bodgers) and certified in skills that no other human might ever need to use in conjunction (at least I sincerely hope not)-- however, I am more or less sane.

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Reply to @wendym: Mmm! Interesting… It sounds as if in the USA like the UK one job vacancy pops up & hundreds to thousands of applicants apply. Swamped to oblivion. Nothing guaranteed any more in the job market for sure & doing as you do (collecting course certificates) is typically a woman’s great methodical plan… A plan the likes of me cannot do any more, I just cannot stand the wrongness of tutor’s personalities/idiosyncratic opinions, & downright wrongfulness getting in the way of true progress (although I was an effective student with high grades). It takes too many years of having to bite lip as they (the tutors) play at God more outrageously nearing the end of the course, knowing full well the student is bound there tied with all them years of hard work to want to throw it all away just to disagree loudly with the tutor’s self-opinionated brashness & bias marking philosophies.

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Reply to @wendym: Mmm! Interesting… It sounds as if in the USA like the UK one job vacancy pops up & hundreds to thousands of applicants apply. Swamped to oblivion. Nothing guaranteed any more in the job market for sure & doing as you do (collecting course certificates) is typically a woman’s great methodical plan… A plan the likes of me cannot do any more, I just cannot stand the wrongness of tutor’s personalities/idiosyncratic opinions, & downright wrongfulness getting in the way of true progress (although I was an effective student with high grades). It takes too many years of having to bite lip as they (the tutors) play at God more outrageously nearing the end of the course, knowing full well the student is bound there tied with all them years of hard work to want to throw it all away just to disagree loudly with the tutor’s self-opinionated brashness & bias marking philosophies.

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Reply to @wendym: Also I have to write two headlines for affiliate marketing articles just written. I got these two as draft titles until I can come up with something better but with “affiliate marketing” as keywords in both titles, they are:



If You Want to Start Your Own Online Business with Zero Risk & Low Costs Read On

If You Want Your Own Successful & Profitable Online Business then Read On



Can you come up with 2 alternatives that include the keywords "affiliate marketing in both titles?"



I’ll buy you some sweets if you can lol

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Reply to @wendym: Also I have to write two headlines for affiliate marketing articles just written. I got these two as draft titles until I can come up with something better but with “affiliate marketing” as keywords in both titles, they are:



If You Want to Start Your Own Online Business with Zero Risk & Low Costs Read On

If You Want Your Own Successful & Profitable Online Business then Read On



Can you come up with 2 alternatives that include the keywords "affiliate marketing in both titles?"



I’ll buy you some sweets if you can lol

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Reply to @vedmak: I have to deliver the articles (both been completed just need to do the titles now). Affiliate marketing also deals with people creating their own products (eBooks, reports) & landing them in Clickbank where people choose to to buy that product or promote it for free without being harassed to do so & make a tidy profit promoting it to their hungry subscribers who crave such content.



Anyway, because I can write these sort of articles until the cows come home I didn’t refuse.



Thanks for looking at the titles though… it was worth a try, my head is getting tired, too tired to think straight I think I need some zzZZZs

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Reply to @vedmak: I have to deliver the articles (both been completed just need to do the titles now). Affiliate marketing also deals with people creating their own products (eBooks, reports) & landing them in Clickbank where people choose to to buy that product or promote it for free without being harassed to do so & make a tidy profit promoting it to their hungry subscribers who crave such content.



Anyway, because I can write these sort of articles until the cows come home I didn’t refuse.



Thanks for looking at the titles though… it was worth a try, my head is getting tired, too tired to think straight I think I need some zzZZZs

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Master Affiliate Marketing Today: Zero Risk, High Reward



Your Own Online Business, the keys to success and profits



Change Your Life with Affiliate Marketing Today



Tired of Struggling? Learn how to be a master of affiliate marketing, tricks the experts don’t want you to know.



I’m three gin and tonics down, I’ll probably think of a few more before I settle in for the night.

[wendym]

@scriptwizard:

Master Affiliate Marketing Today: Zero Risk, High Reward



Your Own Online Business, the keys to success and profits



Change Your Life with Affiliate Marketing Today



Tired of Struggling? Learn how to be a master of affiliate marketing, tricks the experts don’t want you to know.



I’m three gin and tonics down, I’ll probably think of a few more before I settle in for the night.

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Reply to @vedmak: But then you also have companies like Amazon too where in your example you mention mums, well just as they would/could be an agent for a cosmetics or clothes catalogue offline, they can affiliate Amazon products online… These don’t have anything to do with pyramid MLM structures at all.

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Reply to @vedmak: But then you also have companies like Amazon too where in your example you mention mums, well just as they would/could be an agent for a cosmetics or clothes catalogue offline, they can affiliate Amazon products online… These don’t have anything to do with pyramid MLM structures at all.

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Reply to @wendym: These are great ideas for titles, well impressed

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Reply to @wendym: These are great ideas for titles, well impressed