Eliminate "I" and "You" from Peer Reviews
© 2010 Ugur Akinci I have previously mentioned in another blog post that one of the best techniques to use in a peer review is to eliminate the second-person singular pronoun, “You.” I recommended talking in terms of “me” and “I” in order not to offend the other party. For example, instead of saying “You…
Read MoreHow to Create a List of Figures in MS Word
Follow these steps… (1) Give all your figures a caption. (2) Click your cursor to where you’d like to place your List of Figures. (NOTE: Microsoft calls the same list “Table of Figures” unfortunately. What if you need to create a list of tables? Should you call that a “Table of Tables”?) The traditional location…
Read MoreChris Brogan’s Rules of "Success with Peace of Mind"
Most of us run just too hard… We push push push, at the office, at home, while we drive, on so-called vacations… How many of us feel a little bit guilty that we do not devote as much time to our families, community and loved ones as we should? Armed with personal to-do lists, weekly,…
Read MoreHow to Create a List of Tables in MS Word
Follow these steps… (1) Give all your tables a caption. (2) Click your cursor at where you’d like to place your List of Tables. Its traditional location in a technical document is right after the Table of Contents (if any) and after the “List of Figures” (if any). (3) Select the References tab from the…
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