Frank E. Keyes Jr.

Frank E. Keyes, a combat veteran, served as an infantryman with the 2/505th Parachute Infantry Battalion, among other units. He is the former senior editor of a Northrop Grumman business unit; he has taught English both at the undergraduate and graduate level at several universities. As CEO of K&K Training, he presently teaches Effective Writing for Business and Government to students in different organizations in the United States.

When asked why he wrote Utopia U., he said, "I couldn't . . . not write it. Yes, I know, a double-negative, but a true answer. Another reason, I think, is this: I wrote it for students and their parents. They deserve better than what they're getting."

Recent Books by Keyes:

• Professional Writing (Scientific, Military, Technical, Business, Etc.) FOR WRITERS AND

EDITORS, Milestone Press, 2008). Republished by Milestone West Press, ISBN 978-

0692307113.

• Technical Writing: The Professional's Guide (Second Edition Book, Milestone Press,

2003, ISBN 1-888607-06-8). Reviews, including one from an international journal, and

blurbs enclosed.

• Utopia U. (Novel, Milestone Press, 2000, ISBN 1-888607-05-X). The first paperback

printing (1,300 copies) sold out on Amazon.com. The second printing by Milestone

West Press (ISBN 1500333107//EAN 9781500333102) is now on amazon.com as a

paperback and Kindle. Reviews, including one from an international journal, are on

amazon.com.

• Hade's Landing (Veiled Horn Press, 1980, Library of Congress #80-155258).

Recent Essays by Keyes (less newspaper articles)

• (To be published in June 2015) "Tales from Inside English Departments' Linen Closets,"

Essay, Vocabula Review, June 2015

• "What College Writing Instructors Do Wrong," Essay, Vocabula Review, November 2009

• "How Not to Edit or Seven Editing Sins," Essay, Vocabula Review, July 2008

• "Course Outlines and the English Language," Essay, Vocabula Review, June 2007

(Republished in the August 2009 issue of Vocabula Review [Best essays in ten years,

120 issues])

• "The Trouble with The Chicago Manual of Style (Why One Writer and One Editor Are on

the Lam from the Chicago Mob)," Essay, Vocabula Review, January 2007

• "Peer Review of Plans and Reports," Essay, International Test and Evaluation

Association Journal, January 2006 (Was, and perhaps still is, required reading at a

USMC testing organization.)

• "On Some Deficiencies in Our American Dictionaries (An Editor Writes to His Son),"

Essay, Vocabula Review, June 2005

• "Parting Shot," Essay, Vocabula Review, June 2005

• "Opposing Views on That and Which," Essay, Vocabula Review, July 2003