Fall 1999


FEATUREFEATURE
BUSINESS WORDBUSINESS WORD
BOOK REVIEWBOOK REVIEW
ORIGINSORIGINS
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*

Writer's Block




 

Maple Leaf

Writer's Block

*

If you've been staring blankly at your computer monitor maybe it's time you took a trip. Escape into the world of the rich and famous, if only for a moment, through this issue's feature story by author John Nihmey.
Nihmey describes how he came to be Canada's most widely syndicated travel writer on the great hotels of the world. Also in this issue, find out what makes a comedy sketch work, as told by comedy writer Brian Luff.

 

Feature Writing Your Way to Travel Adventure
John Nihmey, author of Canada's most widely syndicated travel feature, gives a candid view of how he accidentally became a travel writer and what made his column so successful.

How to Write the Best Comedy Sketches

Planet Comedy's Brian Luff describes how to write comedy sketches that work.
Business Word Putting the Horse Before the Cart
Why Proper Planning Is Essential for Effective Communications

Contributing editor Peter Zvalo discusses the benefits of planning communications initiatives and the pitfalls of failing to do so.
Book Review Technologies of Knowing: A Proposal for the Human Sciences
A "thought experiment" intended to show how, using current technologies, social science research could be made available for better use by the public that is largely responsible for funding it.
Origins A Country Mile, as the Chicken Flies
Origins Guy uses fowl language on a Sunday drive.
 

 

Tell a friend