One of the common myths I constantly correct in social media and in online forums is that Comic Sans is somehow the “best” typeface for…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Category: Writing
A lot of students and aspiring writers ask me if you “must” use Final Draft or Screenwriter to write a screenplay. No. Absolutely not, unless…
By May, I’ll be half-way through an MFA in Film and Digital Technology. People ask why a Ph.D. in rhetoric would need an MFA. My…
Should we teach our digital composition students the tricks of the trade for bloggers and other new media publishers? The ancient texts on rhetoric discuss…
Video games are written, before and during the coding process. They are, after all, stories — from the simple story of a hungry “Pac-Man” avoiding…
Pittsburgh TechFest was Saturday, June 1, 2013. For me, this is like going to a county fair or theme park… minus the junk food I…
I overuse some words and phrases in my writing. Most writers have some problem words. It isn’t that the words should never be used, or…
Can computer software evaluate student papers? The debate has waged for about three years in higher education, and lately it has taken on a new…
Can software accurately analyze the writing style of an author to determine if he or she wrote a specific work? Maybe… Open source app can…
Comments and Marginalia in Manuscripts
Published by Poet Ponders on May 23, 2013As I was writing a post about “comments” in computer programming source code, I noted that I like comments and marginalia when I write for…