This Week In Words

ByNicola

It’s been a “dog disease” kind of week on the writing front. Here’s a snapshot of it, courtesy of Wordle.

This is a word cloud generated by the website Wordle. It consists of a mixture of dozens of words chosen from text that had been inserted into the app based on scientific writing work I did in the week prior to initially writing this post.

Hope you get to enjoy a long Memorial Day weekend. Don’t forget to thank a military servicemember if you get the chance.

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