So I think there must be some connection with Google, but I just stumbled across an interesting website: "wikiHOW" While wikipedia is an online editable encyclopedia, wikiHow is an online editable "How-to" guide. It's rather comical at points. I saw some interesting how to articles on "How to kick a door in" and "How to survive a shark attack" reminiscent of the trendy "worst case scenario" handbook.
As I perused the site, I saw some potential for great usefulness. As the title of this blog suggests, there was one article that showed a great progression. Initially, some well-meaning author with a tactless idea (something to the effect of, 'get some fat ladies to dress up in skimpy outfits and tell the teenage girls that this is what they look like... that will get them to start dressing modestly'). Once that article was posted, the wiki-community descended and a dialogue ensued. Ultimately, the article as it now appears, reflects some helpful and insightful ways to deal with and understand the issue of dress in schools. If you elect to check it out, make sure you click on the "History" tab to view the article as it was initially published, and then check out the "Discussion" tab to see the development of the article as it now stands. Good stuff.
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This article was a bit odd to write. I tried to develop an idea I've seen work in a summer camp setting. At the camp there were high school girls trying their best to get as close as possible to being absolutely nude. That problem was extremely frustrating to deal with until two of the female counselors straightened them out. The problem vanished.
The article immediately got an nfd (nomination for deletion.)
I thought I would try something. I went to google scholar and started researching how to get teenage students to dress modestly and pulled information from professionally written articles. Lo and behold a few months later the article had a bunch of hits and a nomination for feature article status.
The reality- I have no idea if anything in the article works. It is what other people have written in journals. Some of the material is 50 years out of date. The part of the article about the sign over the mirror was rephrased so as not to offend the modern person.
More reality- My area of expertise is swine manure. All I wanted was a review of my writing style because I am preparing to submit an article for publication and have for the first time begun to take writing very seriously. (Which is hard to do when writing a technical presentation on manure.)
If you don't believe me notice that all of my other articles are technical natured.
In the future I'm thinking of writing an article on how to make diesel fuel out of swine waste.
Actually, I did work in textiles briefly before the recession and saw the dynamic between what the clothing executives were wearing and what they were selling.
The only real difference in my two careers is that swine manure does not claim to be anything its not.
You write very well.
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