Re: Teaching others how to fish

Subject: Re: Teaching others how to fish
From: "Melissa Nelson" <melmis36 -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:32:21 -0400

>"One way I've used in the past is to send out a short
>tip every week based on common mistakes. People will
>read a quick tip, especially if you can make it
>interesting and light in tone."


I like this idea, what types of tips do you include? Do you have a sample
that you do not mind sharing?

Melissa


>From: Writers Book Mall <steve -at- writersbookmall -dot- com>
>Reply-To: steve -at- writersbookmall -dot- com
>To: Daniel Ng <kjng -at- gprotechnologies -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>Subject: Re: Teaching others how to fish
>Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:30:20 -0700 (PDT)
>
>One way I've used in the past is to send out a short
>tip every week based on common mistakes. People will
>read a quick tip, especially if you can make it
>interesting and light in tone.
>
>
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