Intro to Write With RCS

 Write With RCS: An introduction to a writing niche 

             Here are some little essays on writing. There are a couple of more in the works and ideas for couple of more in mind That seems enough to begin this little niche blog dealing with writing.

             Over the years I have had several blogs, but nearly all of them have had a mix of many topics. I have seen and believed that the better blogs nearly always have a discrete topic or niche. So, now I intend to try and have such a blog.

 

            My present suggestion to bloggers, including myself, is to sort and present your writings into clearly defined areas. My first efforts to that end will be this blog on writing. "Writing" may not be enough of a clearly defined area. So, it seems I have a great deal of room for improvement.

 

            This blog will deal with the practice of writing. It may become a "how to" start writing and keep writing and include suggestions for getting "unstuck." It may include a suggestion or two for completing a useful draft. I will probably post of seeing our writing as a process of self-development and growth. The posts here will be about bettering our writing.

 

            It is beginning to sound like a "how to blog." Maybe I should call this blog, Hints For Bettering Our Writing. I say 'our' and mean 'our.' So I will appreciate your comments, suggestions, corrections, and hints for better writing because I need them. There is a "comment" window below where you can write to us. Your commenting can be anonymous, but it is better if you can identify yourself. Of course you an identify yourself with a pen name if you wish. 

            To start a valuable piece of writing, consider making a problem interesting and follow by offering a useful solution.

 

 

                                                                                                            Richard C. Sheehan     

Commentes

                     I am very sorry, but as you may have noticed, our comments app has been taken. I have tried restarting and reinstalling but found I was unable to regain that application in that way. So far I have found no pertinent help elsewhere.

                    I want this blog to interactive and would be very pleased to be in contact with you. You may contact me at email address:  magobil@gmail.com

                    Also the "comments" app is still available on several associate blogs.

                    When using either of these contact methods please do the following:

1) Provide the name of the blogsite your message relates to.

2) Provide the name of the specific post at the site you refer to.

3) Tell me how to respond to you.

                    I would like the opportunity to try to be responsive to your likes and interests in future posts. To that end I need to know more about your likes and interests. Specifics can be helpful.

                Thank you for reading and for your visi.

                                                                                            Richard

"Spellcheck" and "comments"

                 The spellcheck and comments apps have been taken from this blog as they have been taken for my Governance With RCS blogs and other blogs of mine! My Esoteric to Exoteric has lost its spellcheck app but still has its "comments" app.

                You may use the comments app at Esoteric to Exoteric to make comments intended for any of the associated blogs from which the "comments" app has been removed. 

                Be sure begin your comment with a notice nameing the the blog and post for which the comment is intended and refers to.

                I have lost the spellcheck from a dozen blogs and have found no way to get them back. Now I have already lost about that many Comments apps!! I could really use some help! If you know of a way to finding help please tell me about. "Settings" on my dashboard no longer works to reset spellcheck. I have found no help at all from Blogspot "help" or "send feedback!"

                                                                                                    Richard

Writing About Another Blogger's Work

 Write With RCS: Posting to, on, and about another blogger's posts. It's the Bloggers' Code.

 

 In posting about another blogger's post I hope to do most of the following so as to look good and to have a positive effect on post readers, blogs, blogging, writing and humanity:

1. Provide a bit more evidence and documentation for my assertions than I have in the past.

2.List important references and bibliographic items.

3. Name my post or response in a way useful to the reader. 

4. Name the author I am responding to.

5. Name the particular Writing of that author to which I am responding.

6. Give my response to the bloggers actual presentation.

7. Consider and evaluate the bloggers evidence.

8. Make my response appropriately clear and brief.

9. Quote the bloggers words in a way which captures the essences of her post.

10. Helpfully identify that to which I reply.

11. Help my readers to understand what I am writing about by identifying the essay, the happening, the question, the experience, the philosophy to which I an responding.

12. Provide information about the writer, translator, editor, compiler, witness. 

13. Place my response and that which I am responding in historical context.

14. Provide some background for the main writer of the post.

15. Provide enough detail and example.

16. Make use of fair and useful quotes of the other blogger.

17. Make an estimate of the level of fact or truth of assertions I mention.

18. In making an argument provide convincing evidence.

19. Give the other blogger's evidence.

20. Evaluate how consistent the other blogger's evidence is with other sources l know.

                                                                                                       RCS