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Writing & Grammar Workshop: Converting Empty Phrases to Gold

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Empty words and phrases, such as the ones in bold in the preceding sentence, delay giving your readers the information they want, create a boring tone, and make your material seem vague and difficult. For example, my first sentence could have been Empty phrases decrease the reader's interest in your topic.

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Writing & Grammar Workshop: Acronyms Happen

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Yet they can be a barrier to a reader who is trying to absorb technical information or to a learner who is encountering new terms for the first time. Even advanced RTW can forget quickly how to understand the UOA by memorizing what the A's meant, and try to refresh their memory by scanning the document to locate the first UOA.

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Grammar Workshop: i.e. versus e.g. and such as versus like

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by Jennie Ruby Interrupting a sentence to explain a term or give examples of a concept is a way to get your reader to see immediately how the new information relates to the real world. e.g. = for example. such as introduces a list of some of, but not all of, the examples of your topic. incomplete list of examples"].

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Setting the Standard for eLearning Assessments

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At its highest level, usability improves the learner’s motivation to engage in the experience, while also making information easy to access and process. Established in 2003 by a small group of colleagues in the MarylandOnline, Inc. (MOL) These scorecards are focused on areas such as: Course overview and information.

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Writing & Grammar: Make Your Own Style Sheets and Feel the Awesome Power!

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A style sheet is a list of your formatting, punctuation, and capitalization decisions for a document. Plus, if you work within an organization or a team, the documents coming out of the organization should be consistent. For software training documents, follow the on-screen displayed names of things. The decisions are arbitrary.

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Writing & Grammar: Less than or Fewer?

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Here are some examples with money: She gave the clerk less than $50. I hope this information means you can spend fewer minutes thinking about this question and thus waste less time! I also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class. I also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class.

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SMEs Are Not Instructional Designers

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We all know that Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) provide the content that makes a course informative. But sometimes, their content may get a little too much “in the weeds,” and you find yourself bogged down with a mountain of information that’s “nice to know, but not need to know” for your learners.