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Category Archives: documents
Matching Outputs to Match Operational Realities
Budget cuts happen, even in non-crisis situations. Fiscal years end, funds are reallocated, and priorities change. Large projects that were going to take weeks suddenly compress into a single week. This could mean changes to scope, format, and even content. … Continue reading
Posted in documents, management, research, technical writing
Tagged scope change, scope creep
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Big Proposal Production vs. Small Proposals
This past week or two, I’ve been supporting two different proposal efforts: one is large, with multiple partners and lots of pages; the other is for a small business pursuing a single task order under an already-existing Broad Area Announcement … Continue reading
Posted in documents, editing, peers, proposal writing, technical writing, workplace
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Stage Props and Usability
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
Posted in audience, documents, graphics, personal
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Fact Checking Your Work
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
Posted in documents, editing, interviews, journalism, philosophy, research
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Proposal Style Sheets
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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