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		<title>To Ancient Rome, and Hollywood Glory, in a Lunch Hour</title>
		<link>http://www.encoretechresources.com/insights/2013/06/18/to-ancient-rome-and-hollywood-glory-in-a-lunch-hour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dougbedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch what you&#8217;re doing on your lunch hour – consider it, even, a time of imaginative opportunity. James Erwin, a technical writer in Des Moines, Iowa, decided on one of his lunch hours awhile back to respond to a question he&#8217;d seen on the Reddit social networking site: &#8220;Could a battalion of U.S. marines, transported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How&#8217;s that? &#8216;Emotionally Satisfying&#8217; Procedure Writing?</title>
		<link>http://www.encoretechresources.com/insights/2013/06/12/hows-that-emotionally-satisfying-procedure-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dougbedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine viewing technical writing as &#8220;an emotional experience.&#8221;  Larry Kunz does just that, but he doesn&#8217;t propose approaching a technical manual or document as a potboiler. What he means is producing technical writing that elicits &#8220;a feeling of trust,&#8221; and that&#8217;s right on the mark. Good technical writing should produce a feeling of confidence in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing With the Universe in Mind</title>
		<link>http://www.encoretechresources.com/insights/2013/06/03/writing-with-the-universe-in-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dougbedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would have been great to have attended the  &#8220;A Day of Dialogue&#8221; discussion that was held recently by Library Journal on science writing. It featured Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene), Dave Goldberg (A User&#8217;s Guide to the Universe)  and Simon Winchester (The Professor and the Madman) on &#8220;The Art of Science Writing.&#8221; Dawkins encouraged science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power Unimpeded, When the Sun Shines</title>
		<link>http://www.encoretechresources.com/insights/2013/05/23/power-unimpeded-when-the-sun-shines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 16:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dougbedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A massive shift is underway in how Germany generates its electricity – from conventional power plants, including nuclear, to largely renewable energies. Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s goal is to have Germany nuclear-free by 2022, an aim she established after Japan&#8217;s Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in 2011. She envisions renewables producing 80 percent of  Germany&#8217;s electric power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doolittle&#8217;s Mission Avenged &#8216;A Day to Remember&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dougbedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Encore&#8217;s Dennis Owen has been circulating &#8220;one of those Internet missives I received from a friend&#8221; on the Doolittle bombing raid over Tokyo, Japan, in 1942. And for good reason – the Doolittle mission was one of the most heroic, defiant episodes in American history. It was meant as a response to the sneak Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Twirling a Yo-Yo Becomes an Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 15:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dougbedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a young man we know nothing about except that his name is Black, just that, and can he handle a yo-yo! First one yo-yo, then two of them together. He&#8217;s thrilled a TED audience and, now us, watching that performance. So what&#8217;s there about a yo-yo that&#8217;s so awesome? It&#8217;s not the yo-yo itself, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daunted by a TV Manual that Shouldn&#8217;t Exist</title>
		<link>http://www.encoretechresources.com/insights/2013/04/29/daunted-by-a-tv-manual-that-shouldnt-exist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dougbedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From New Zealand comes word that our ordeal with the manual for our Toshiba DVD Video Player/Video Cassette Recorder isn&#8217;t unique. Lots of manuals aren&#8217;t written clearly or well. Don&#8217;t they know that qualified technical writers are available for those assignments? Writing about Digital Living, Abbie Napier introduces us to Emma Harding (pictured), a technical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s Another &#8216;Bullet&#8217; Being Built at Ohio State</title>
		<link>http://www.encoretechresources.com/insights/2013/04/15/theres-another-bullet-being-built-at-ohio-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dougbedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, thanks to the Internet and blogging, you can be alongside practically anyone trying to do almost anything – like exceeding 400 miles-per-hour in a streamlined electric car. And you learn that the ones trying to set that mark are students at Ohio State University, which created TRC Inc. (the Transportation Research Center). That&#8217;s where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technical Writing in Shorter &#8216;Page Bursts&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.encoretechresources.com/insights/2013/04/05/3708/</link>
		<comments>http://www.encoretechresources.com/insights/2013/04/05/3708/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dougbedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Web being such a factor in communication now, it&#8217;s bound to be affecting where people turn for information, even technical information. &#8220;Web consults&#8221; are likely to be increasingly one&#8217;s first choice on where to look for information, of whatever degree of complexity. While this doesn&#8217;t apply as much to site-specific information, it&#8217;s likely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Twinkies&#8217; for Technical Writers, and Kids Rapped Up in Lyrics</title>
		<link>http://www.encoretechresources.com/insights/2013/03/21/twinkies-for-technical-writers-and-kids-rapped-up-in-lyrics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dougbedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is only for kids in K-12 and their teachers, but it&#8217;s about, you might say, a form of technical writing, rap music. Turns out that The New York Times Learning Network has been holding an annual rap music-writing contest, and the 2012 winners were recently announced. We figure there will be another rap contest [...]]]></description>
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