George Mocharko
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George L. Mocharko is a writer, editor and communications professional based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He has a Master's degree in international commerce and policy from George Mason University's School of Public Policy, and his B.A. in communications from Mason. Previously, he was the Editor-in-Chief of a campus newspaper and served as a managing editor and communications manager for two business-oriented trade associations.

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Review: You Are Not So Smart

0 Comments | Posted April 11, 2012 | 6:24 PM

David McRaney
Gotham Books, 302 pgs. 2012

Let's face it: You aren't that smart.

It's a bold assertion -- maybe even an insult -- that isn't likely to endear you toward reading the rest of this article, or the book of similar name. Yet journalist David McRaney's...

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Book Review: Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little

0 Comments | Posted October 9, 2011 | 2:35 PM

By Christopher Johnson
2011, Hardback, 246 pages, W.W. Norton & Company $21.95

Omit needless words.

That phrase is the age-old writing wisdom given by Strunk & White, in The Elements of Style. Little did Strunk know when his advice was first published in 1918...

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Review: The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You, by Eli Pariser

0 Comments | Posted August 17, 2011 | 3:18 PM

Psst? Wanna know a secret? The Internet is hiding something from you.

Eli Pariser's book The Filter Bubble treads lightly into the realm of the Internet with a book that in lesser hands could have become an unwieldy and complex subject.

Beginning with its cover -- a sly...

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