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Home Business Spotlight: Copywriting

The world of writing encompasses many different avenues. There is no shortage of job opportunities when it comes to writing. So if you are just starting out, you may be surprised at the different types that are available. One of the more potentially lucrative writing careers is found with copywriting. Copywriting is almost like an art form, as you are responsible for producing words that will effectively sell and promote a particular service, product or company. Copyrighters produce advertisements and content that can be found in newspapers, magazines, radio ads, commercials, billboards, flyers, catalogs, coupons, brochures, pamphlets and so much … Continue reading →

More Tips for Writing Papers

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In a previous article I discussed some tips on how to write a research paper. Very few students make it through school without writing a research paper. Research papers can be stressful and cause much anxiety if they are not well planned and prepared for. In the first article I discussed planning adequate time to create your paper. As a general rule a research paper may take up to 36 hours to complete. While yours may take a much shorter amount of time, do not procrastinate when it comes to getting your work completed. Another key element to having a … Continue reading →

Tips for Writing Research Papers

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Research and term papers are now being required from students as early as elementary school. Many middle school students take courses on how to create and type research papers. Learning how to write a good research paper is a key tool to being successful in college. Most college courses, especially graduate courses, require students to write at least one research paper in which sources must be cited. Writing a good paper must begin with preparation. Before you get started on your first research paper, examine the papers of others. Ask your teacher to see examples of work that he or … Continue reading →

Ask a Baby Blogger: Working at Home with a Baby

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Question: I know you have twins, can you tell me how it is to work at home with a baby? Is it easier or harder than going to work? I’m kind of chuckling as I’m writing this. Do you want to hear about the time that I had just finished a grant writing project and my baby puked all over it? The countless days when the twins cried and fussed and took turns needing to be held where I got nothing done? Or the number of days where I got to the computer to write and I was so tired … Continue reading →

More Great Careers: Physician’s Assistant to Professor

This is the blog to watch if you’re looking to change careers or are just starting to consider what your career options will be. The best careers are chosen based a variety of factors including prestige, pay, and job security. Physician’s Assistant This is the career choice for you if you always wanted to be a doctor but the length of training turns you off. The road to becoming a physician’s assistant is generally three years after a bachelor’s degree. The downside is that getting into a training program is highly competitive and at this point, most people have a … Continue reading →

Gift Album Tips and Ideas

Most Scrapbookers think about scrapbooking something as a gift idea for the holidays. Well, with Christmas just around the corner it is certainly time to get working on it. There are so many different things we can create with our scrapbooking supplies as gifts, from altered items to framed pages, gift albums and mini scrapbooks. This year I think I might have gotten off easy. In past years, I have created albums for Christmas gifts, so now all that is left to do is create a page or two to add to their already created album. I did a year … Continue reading →

Author Interview — James Rada Jr: Newspapers and Novels

James Rada is an award-winning newspaper columnist and fiction novelist. I’m excited to share with all of you a recent interview I conducted with Jim, and I appreciate the time he took out of his busy schedule to talk with me. Jim, you’re a newspaper man as well as a novelist. Which came first? Neither. I was an advertising copywriter first. That’s the guy or gal who writes all the words in an ad. I graduated BYU with an advertising degree and worked for my first couple years in that field and enjoyed it. Then my wife and I decided … Continue reading →

The Book of Quotes

If you’ve been reading this blog you’ll be very aware that I’ve been poking and prodding at you to do something about all of those papers you’ll no doubt have to write this quarter/semester in pursuit of your degree. All of the outside things are easy: talk to a professor, do research, something else, turn in your finished paper. What is that “something else” that gets you from research to a finished paper? Well, as many hilarious (and accurate) internet graphs/comics will tell you, the process of writing is anything but linear for most of us. You don’t just “pick … Continue reading →

Starting Now

Writing any paper is a difficult task. There so many thing to take into account before even selecting a topic — let alone writing an introduction — but far too often students bide their time by squandering it until the process of waiting becomes a frantic rush to the end. You’ve done it before, and unless you do something about it right now (and I mean right now) the end of your current semester is going to look very similar to the end of your previous semesters: stressful. Sure, you’ll find a way to stay awake that extra day through … Continue reading →

A Thesis

My wife is a high school teacher and she often assigns to her students the task of writing a short (really really short) research paper each year. She gives them ample time, lots of revisions, and a great deal of feedback. Needless to say, many of the students she encounters (along with other students and teachers I know) don’t take their instructors’ advice to heart. They allow the knowledge to go in one ear (if any) and out the other quite quickly as they are seeking to do less than the minimum to get by with help from a little … Continue reading →