Gina F.
Subscriber since: November 2008
Location:
Glen Allen,
VA
About Me
Senior Copywriter for Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.
My Word Lists
Recent Comments
My Favorites
Favorite Word:
onomatopoeiait's a word that is difficult to spell, yet by it's definition is the antithesis of correct spelling
Favorite Quote:
""Praise so faint even dogs couldn't hear it.""
- not sure ... but I saw it in a magazine article about the show Project Runway
Favorite Topics:
Blogs:
Getting "Gatsby": The Language Behind the Novel
May 10, 2013
- 1 Comment
Obsolete Words Worth Reviving?
March 21, 2013
Copywriting:
Score One for the Apostrophe
October 19, 2011
- 9 Comments
The Case of the Lay Flat Collar
June 29, 2010
- 19 Comments
Creativity:
Calling All Writers: Introducing Figment
May 16, 2011
SciPlay, So Far
November 30, 2010
- 2 Comments
Dictionaries:
A Taxing Day for Dictionaries
April 15, 2013
A Worldly Tour of the Oxford English Dictionary
January 23, 2013
- 3 Comments
Fiction writing:
The Power of General Statements
January 23, 2012
- 15 Comments
The Writer-Reader-Character Bond
August 8, 2011
- 12 Comments
Fun:
How "Baloney" Got Phony
May 3, 2013
- 2 Comments
Linguists:
A Linguist Answers, "Why Do I Do What I Do?"
January 17, 2011
Telling the Life Stories of Words
December 7, 2010
Marketing copy:
Copywriting Case Study: Building Business Success
March 17, 2008
- 1 Comment
Business Communicators: Got Metaphor?
February 25, 2008
- 3 Comments
Reading:
Staring, Glancing and Glaring Through Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight"
March 7, 2013
- 2 Comments
Writing Packed with Life
February 4, 2013
- 5 Comments
Storytelling:
Type Casting
January 24, 2012
- 2 Comments
Shakespeare and the Hurricane
October 12, 2011
- 5 Comments
Visual Thesaurus:
Word Cloud: A Film Inspired by the Visual Thesaurus
August 24, 2012
- 5 Comments
Reconsidering the Thesaurus
April 2, 2012
Vocabulary:
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013
- 7 Comments
Silicon Valley's Favorite Word: "Delight"
May 14, 2013
Web tools:
Twitter Me This: New Technology in the Language Arts Classroom
November 15, 2011
- 3 Comments
Tracking Dialects on Twitter: What's Coo and What's Koo?
November 4, 2011
- 4 Comments
WordMasters:
WordMasters: Grade 3 Blue Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
WordMasters: Grade 3 Gold Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
Writer's block:
Getting Unstuck
July 24, 2008
Why You Should Think of Yourself as an Orange
June 4, 2008
- 11 Comments
Young readers:
STEM, Literacy, and the Common Core Standards
August 21, 2012
- 3 Comments
A Teacher's Summer Reflections
June 13, 2012
- 2 Comments
About Us
Become an Affiliate
Technology Licensing
Contributors
Contact Us
Copyright ©1998-2013 Thinkmap, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Terms of Use
Already a Subscriber?
