Puechner's "I Hate Writing Papers, but I Want an 'A'" (OnMilwaukee.com)

The point of this type of advertising copy is to present the story of the writer's own unique experience. People who read a "personal story" on a website will remember the story outline and maybe a name or place will stick in their memory. If they then come across an identical story told by someone completely different, they will start to suspect people are just making these stories up. It's bound to happen and that's bad luck for the guy who invented the original version because his protests will be drowned in a huge chorus of "I am Spartacus!" from all his competitors.

Puechner's "I Hate Writing Papers, but I Want an 'A'" (OnMilwaukee.com)

Eileen Puechner is the author of "I Hate Writing Papers, but I Want an 'A,'" an easy to read guide to academic writing and tackling basic grammar.

Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups (Crikey)

Tower Books director Michael Rakusin writes : Re. "Angus & Robertson responds: setting the record straight" (Friday, item 22). I have read Mr Fenlon's somewhat disingenuous letter with growing incredulity at the sheer dishonesty of its contents.

Getting ready for Addy (Daily Record)

ELLENSBURG â€” Sheâ€™s backing into the box and weâ€™re all waiting for her to nod her head on her way to a quick time. Sheâ€™s locked into the chute with a nasty bull and the anticipation is enough to make you shake.

August 8, 2007 (Arts Journal)

Porter, who I consider a colleague (though no, he is not a journalist and describes himself as a "part-time writer) and pal, recently wrote to me asking to recommend writers for a book-length history of jazz in a major U.S. city, to be published by University of Michigan Press, which "only has about $2,000 (maybe a little more) to offer as an advance."

Celebrity etiquette (The Observer)

Everyone who's anyone has an internet blog, so no surprise that the celebs have jumped on the broadband wagon.

Resident Storyteller (The Peninsula)

DOHA: Sure, plenty of English-language authors, though mostly of textbooks, have flitted in and out of Doha. But to have an actual published author of a work of English fiction living and working here is a rarity.

Send to Friend (Cape May County Herald)

Editing and proofreading can be the bane of a writerâ€™s existence. I say can be because it will become so if you let it.

Good Eating: The end of an era (Old Colony Memorial)

Maybe the image I want is a soufflâ€š - a deft admixture of eggs and air served warm so the flavor of cheddar is soft in the mouth and the substance is already beginning to vanish before it can be swallowed. Food has always been for me a metaphor for life. If the world was my oyster, it was also my Cheerios and my creamed chicken on toast.

State of the Chesterton / Duneland Chamber is good, members are told (Chesterton Tribune)

The Chesterton/Duneland Chamber of Commerce is growing and prospering, as Duneland itself grows and prospers, but thereâ€™s always room for more members and for more participation from its members.

Honolulu bungles property-tax date (Honolulu Advertiser)

Honolulu is spending $50,000 in taxpayer money to reprint and mail thousands of bungled property tax bills that got stuck in a bureaucratic time warp.

Puechner's "I Hate Writing Papers, but I Want an 'A'" (OnMilwaukee.com)

Well, I can think of three options straight off: (1) they can hire a professional to write the sales letter on their behalf, (2) they can shamelessly copy someone else's sales letter and just change a few details around or (3) they can buy expensive software to do the job for them.

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