One recent commenter on our blog stated, "Rules were meant to be broken." She is a publishing professional with more than 20 years of experience in writing, editing and desktop publishing. Writing & Grammarby Jennie Ruby. The rules of grammar are not forever. But which ones should we allow to change? In my classes I still meet the occasional editor who still does not allow use of the word impact as a verb. But that battle was lost in the early 1990s. Dictionaries now list the verb form as a legitimate word. But some kinds of changes come easier than others. MORE >>

Back when I wrote my instructional design careers series in 2007, I was only aware of a few blogs by instructional designers. Since then, I’ve discovered a wealth of blogs by instructional designers, e-learning developers, and workplace learning specialists. Design for Learning is written by Natalie Laderas-Kilkenny, a former coworker of mine who blogs on education and technology. Tracy Hamilton writes Discovery through eLearning. In the Middle of the Curve is one of the first blogs I linked to, back in January 2007. Instructional Designers. learning. MORE >>

For instance, if you need learners to identify what button to click on to begin a procedure in a system, don’t write a multiple choice question where the options are names of buttons. Simply writing “bad” statements as distracters misses an opportunity to show learners valid examples and non-examples of applying a skill. So how does one write good distracters? Earlier posts on this blog explain how scenarios can make quiz questions more relevant and how to write realistic scenarios. So when it comes to writing distracters. By Shelley A. Gable. MORE >>

One of the perennial problems teachers face, especially in early years education, is trying to get children to write. The main problem is that children are expected to write in a vacuum, for an audience of one (the teacher). But several schools are beginning to address this 'won't write' problem by making it entertaining and productive through the use of social media. In an article entitled Could blogging be the key to raising a generation of great writers? Liz Dwyer argues for creating audiences online for children to write for: '"I don't like to write." MORE >>

I am naturally drawn to writers and writing. Is my affinity to writing a recent phenomena ? The cure for writing good is reading more, writing even more and writing it out in open. juggle between private and public blog. like Seth Godin's style of writing for brevity, insights ,wisdom and business context. And then , there is Twitter to experiment with writing in bite sized chunks for easy consumption. guess, Twitter was invented for bite sized writing and cascading stories in 140 format :-). There is no one right answer. MORE >>