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    APEX 2004

      Learn more about APEX with a quick intro...

    Of Special Interest:
  • APEX 2004 Call for Entries announced!

  • To enter APEX 2004, see the Call for Entries brochure (224k PDF).

  • And you can fill out this Easy Entry Form (192k PDF) on screen, saving the bother of typewriters or filling out the form by hand.

  • Many new APEX categories are available this year. See the Categories page for new categories and the full list of 109 categories for APEX 2004.

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    Browse an article from Writing That Works, Concepts’print-only, paid subscription newsletter. We publish only first-run, original content targeted to the specific needs of publication professionals.

  • APEX Grand Award Site of the Day
    Enjoy Web sites from top-level APEX Award Winners. See how these communications pros structure their Web sites for maximum impact – and enjoy their interesting, informative subject matter.

    Sandia Lab News/Columbia
    Sandia Lab News Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM."This in-house magapaper is of, by and for the staff. Clean type and spreads, first rate photography, an editor's approach to captions (i.e., meaningful, related to the story, and it's okay to make them long if they contribute to the topic) and substantive, well-researched and written features make this a standout employee publication."
    http://www.sandia.gov/LabNews/LN09-05-03/LN09-05-03.html

  • Web site of the day
    Need ideas for a speech? Browse a speech bank. If WHO makes you wonder what, this site gives the meanings of more than 95,000 acronyms. If you don't know the acronym or what it stands for, you can type in what you know to find both. Acronym Finder also carries a long, eclectic bunch of links. Others' work can inspire, and speechwriters can read, hear or see more than 5,000 speeches and sermons in the online speech bank at http://www.americanrhetoric.com. One page offers the opportunity to read, and sometimes listen to, parts of the United States' top 100 speeches of the 20th century, a collection that includes such familiar orations as Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" and John F. Kennedy's inaugural address and such less familiar ones as Carrie Chapman Catt's "Address to the U.S. Congress" and Russell H. Conwell's "Acres of Diamonds." You can search the 100 by decades. Another page features Rhetorical Figures in Sound, more than 200 short audio clips from well-known speeches, movies, sermons, popular songs, etc. The clips, which include epistrophe with Jack Nicholson and simile with Jerry Seinfeld, illustrate various rhetorical devices used to sway an audience. The site offers other useful features, including numerous links.

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