Category Archives: documents

Stage Props and Usability

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Bart Leahy

Recently I was working on the prop committee for a local production of The Music Man. This served as a nice break from my usual reading-and-writing-heavy free time activities, but it also provided a few lessons in usability that I thought … Continue reading →

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Fact Checking Your Work

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Bart Leahy

This post comes at the suggestion of Dr. Karla Kitalong, my former thesis director at University of Central Florida, now teaching at Michigan Technical University. She requested that I discuss fact checking, which is something I’ve had to do as … Continue reading →

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Proposal Style Sheets

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Bart Leahy

The more proposals I do, the more I appreciate the need for a style sheet. These templates can do more than establish fonts, headings, spacing, captions, and body text styles. They can provide the proposal team with a list of … Continue reading →

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Technical Writing and the 48-Hour Film Project

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Bart Leahy

Note: This post has been updated. The original post included an inoperative link. Last week I discussed my intended adventures with the 48-Hour Film Project. You can find my personal observations and photos about the experience here, but today I’ll … Continue reading →

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Rereading Your Content

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Bart Leahy

My primary job these days comprises writing and editing training and development materials. Every 3-6 months, the customer makes changes to the content, which can affect specific presentation slides or whole sections of the training materials. Accepting the changes is … Continue reading →

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