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Toolbox
Navigating the Narrative: Strategies for Copywriting, Editing, and Proofreading
Clay Walker, a technical writer and writing instructor, delivers invaluable guidance on how to formalize the editing process. Walker defines four stages of editing—planning; revision of higher order concerns, like organization; sentence level revisions; and proofreading. He provides tips for each stage. […]
Business Matters
Improv Mindset: 4 Principles to Build Your Qualitative Skills
Qualitative research is a form of applied improvisation: even though moderators prepare extensively, almost anything can happen in an actual conversation, and we have to be able to react in the moment—all while putting on a show for our highly-engaged client “audience.” Actor Will Dennis describes how deliberately adopting an “improv mindset” can further bolster our qualitative skills, offering exercises to help us listen more attentively, make our respondents look good, and reconsider how spontaneous dialogue can turn into opportunities for more genuine and authentic conversations with participants. […]
Travelwise
Have Paddle, Will Travel: 16 States, 2 Countries, and Counting
Kristin Howell walks us through how she discovered a new passion for pickleball and how she integrates it into her work and leisure travel […]