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July 16, 2012
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Getting "Gatsby": The Language Behind the Novel
May 10, 2013
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Obsolete Words Worth Reviving?
March 21, 2013
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"Yes, I Could Care Less": A Mixed Bag
May 15, 2013
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Balzac's "Lost Illusions": a Novel in Contrasts
May 14, 2013
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Creativity:
Calling All Writers: Introducing Figment
May 16, 2011
SciPlay, So Far
November 30, 2010
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Dictionaries:
A Taxing Day for Dictionaries
April 15, 2013
A Worldly Tour of the Oxford English Dictionary
January 23, 2013
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Fiction writing:
The Power of General Statements
January 23, 2012
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The Writer-Reader-Character Bond
August 8, 2011
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Fun:
How "Baloney" Got Phony
May 3, 2013
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Gentleman Turkeys and Other High-Class Gobbledygook
May 2, 2013
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Grammar:
Such Examples as These
May 20, 2013
Orwell and Singular "They"
May 6, 2013
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How to write:
How to Overcome Your Writing Shame
May 13, 2013
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10 Non-Writing Activities That Will Improve Your Writing
April 15, 2013
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Language:
"Beat-Upedness"?
May 21, 2013
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Such Examples as These
May 20, 2013
Libraries:
Librarians Suggest Good Books for Kids of All Ages
January 15, 2013
Love Your Librarian
September 26, 2011
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Media:
Words from a "Surreal" Week in Boston
April 22, 2013
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Roger Ebert's Lexicon: Fruit Carts, Idiot Plots, and Wunza Movies
April 5, 2013
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Naming:
XOXO Marks the Spot
February 14, 2013
How to Name Anything
January 17, 2013
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Online:
A Question of Grammar
April 30, 2013
Whither The #Hashtag?
March 27, 2013
Politics:
How Language Shapes The Gun Debate
February 28, 2013
Letting "Sequester" Fester
February 21, 2013
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Reading:
Staring, Glancing and Glaring Through Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight"
March 7, 2013
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Writing Packed with Life
February 4, 2013
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Spelling:
Scripps National Spelling Bee Adds Vocabulary Questions
April 11, 2013
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Rosanne Cash Knows Her "Ischium" at a Literary Spelling Bee
November 20, 2012
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Storytelling:
Type Casting
January 24, 2012
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Shakespeare and the Hurricane
October 12, 2011
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Visual Thesaurus:
Word Cloud: A Film Inspired by the Visual Thesaurus
August 24, 2012
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Reconsidering the Thesaurus
April 2, 2012
Web tools:
Twitter Me This: New Technology in the Language Arts Classroom
November 15, 2011
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Tracking Dialects on Twitter: What's Coo and What's Koo?
November 4, 2011
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Words:
"Beat-Upedness"?
May 21, 2013
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An Army of "Strong" Slogans
May 17, 2013
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Writer's block:
Getting Unstuck
July 24, 2008
Why You Should Think of Yourself as an Orange
June 4, 2008
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Writers:
Balzac's "Lost Illusions": a Novel in Contrasts
May 14, 2013
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Flash, Gleam, Glint, Sparkle: McPhee, Woolf, and Words
May 7, 2013
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