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Newsletter of the East Bay Chapter of STC
March/April 2003

Editor's Message

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Ashwini Tharvalby Ashwini Tharval
Managing Editor

 

 

Welcome back! Hope you enjoyed reading the last issue.

What’s in Store

This issue takes a look at some of the trends in technical writing. Elaine Parrish, in her article Copyediting—Who Needs It? writes about the importance of copyediting and why it should not be neglected. Don Huntington talks about his unique way of reporting project status to clients by creating a simple web page in An Online Project Information Solution. Linda Shaltz gives us a peek at Camtasia in What Does Video Capture Have to Do With Writing? Susan Harlan discusses the effects of outsourcing on technical writers and suggests a different approach to job hunting in Alternative Jobs or Alternative Job Search Methods?

Deduct Your STC Dues

Did you know that your STC dues are tax deductible? Check out our Society News page for information on how to go about doing this.

A Bit of Humor

A colleague of mine sent this funny email and it really cracked me up. You’ve probably read it somewhere before, but I hope it still brings a guffaw. : )

The following were answers provided by 6th graders during history tests. Watch the spelling! Some of the best humor is in the misspelling.

Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.

Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.

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The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.

Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.

JavaIn the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled biscuits, and threw the java.

Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus."

Musical compositionsJohann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was very large.

It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.

Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted "hurrah."

Marx BrothersThe nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbits. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered the radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx Brothers.

Enjoy the Issue

 

Well now, don’t forget to copyedit!

Hope you enjoy this issue. Please send your comments or feedback.

Till next time,
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