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Writing & Grammar: Acronyms--Are they Both Efficient and Clear?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby I have been told, and have taught, that you define an acronym on first use if it is used at least once more in the document. Why make your reader have to search back for where an acronym was defined if you have used it only twice in the entire document? Just spell it out the second time.

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Writing & Grammar Workshop: Confusing Pairs

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

When you want to say something cost a lot of money, describe it as valuable. Jennie also teaches the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts  and the Complete Review of Grammar  class.   Saying something is invaluable means that a value cannot be set upon it.

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Writing & Grammar Workshop: Is It Website or Web Site?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

At $24.99, the app costs slightly more than the printed book ($18.95). I also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class. As an added bonus, the AP Stylebook app allows me to make notes of my own on any item, so that if one of my editing clients has a specific usage, my note appears every time I look up that item.

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Writing & Grammar: Less than or Fewer?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

The car costs less than $20,000 new. I also teach the Writing Training Documents and eLearning Scripts class. About the Author:  Jennie Ruby is a veteran IconLogic trainer and author with titles such as "Editing with Word 2003 and Acrobat 7" and "Editing with MS Word 2007 " to her credit.

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Can we jumpstart new tech usage?

Clark Quinn

Around 2003, immersive learning environments were emerging (one of my former bosses went to work for a company). So I tried to document the affordances and figure out what the core capabilities were. Otherwise there were lower-cost ways to do either one alone. Let me use an example. Remember the Virtual Worlds bubble?

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Live Training vs. eLearning: Which is Better? The Results Part II

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

The cost of classroom training may not always be able to compete with the economies of scale achieved by e-Learning: "For many companies, classroom training is becoming a luxury, one that not everyone can afford. There are also constraints: it's not cost effective to do classes with just a few people. " John Schuetze.

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Mobile Learning Moves the Evolution of Authoring Tools

Association eLearning

So, simplicity was there for the author, but at the cost of effective learner engagement. To provide more functionality, Direct-to-WEB also enables the author to insert “Do-It Doc” free-form document creation during the module. At the end of the learning, they’ve created a document that can be saved as a Word, RTF or PDF document.