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Blogs:
Getting "Gatsby": The Language Behind the Novel
May 10, 2013
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Comment
Obsolete Words Worth Reviving?
March 21, 2013
Books:
"Yes, I Could Care Less": A Mixed Bag
May 15, 2013
- 9
Comments
Balzac's "Lost Illusions": a Novel in Contrasts
May 14, 2013
- 2
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:
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: May Edition
May 24, 2013
How "Baloney" Got Phony
May 3, 2013
- 2
Comments
Grammar:
Participial Con-Fusion: When Possession is the Law
May 22, 2013
- 3
Comments
Such Examples as These
May 20, 2013
How to write:
How to Overcome Your Writing Shame
May 13, 2013
- 4
Comments
10 Non-Writing Activities That Will Improve Your Writing
April 15, 2013
- 9
Comments
Language:
Participial Con-Fusion: When Possession is the Law
May 22, 2013
- 3
Comments
"Beat-Upedness"?
May 21, 2013
- 5
Comments
Language arts:
A Wicked Worksheet of the Week
May 15, 2013
Lori Wilfong on the Do's and Don'ts of Vocabulary Instruction
March 7, 2013
- 1
Comment
Naming:
XOXO Marks the Spot
February 14, 2013
How to Name Anything
January 17, 2013
- 4
Comments
Politics:
How Language Shapes The Gun Debate
February 28, 2013
Letting "Sequester" Fester
February 21, 2013
- 4
Comments
Puzzle:
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: March Edition!
March 21, 2008
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: February Edition!
February 13, 2008
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
Teachers:
Lori Wilfong on the Do's and Don'ts of Vocabulary Instruction
March 7, 2013
- 1
Comment
Schools Are More Than a Test
January 24, 2013
- 7
Comments
Teaching:
A Question of Grammar
April 30, 2013
Always Never Something: Eliminating Five Overused Words
April 29, 2013
- 15
Comments
Usage:
Leaning Back to Look at "Lean In"
May 23, 2013
- 1
Comment
Participial Con-Fusion: When Possession is the Law
May 22, 2013
- 3
Comments
Visual Thesaurus:
Word Cloud: A Film Inspired by the Visual Thesaurus
August 24, 2012
- 5
Comments
Reconsidering the Thesaurus
April 2, 2012
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
Word Origins:
Season Openers: Baseball Terms and Myths
April 23, 2013
March Madness: Are You Betting on "Chalk"?
March 22, 2013
Words:
Leaning Back to Look at "Lean In"
May 23, 2013
- 1
Comment
"Beat-Upedness"?
May 21, 2013
- 5
Comments
Writer's block:
Getting Unstuck
July 24, 2008
Why You Should Think of Yourself as an Orange
June 4, 2008
- 11
Comments
Writers:
Balzac's "Lost Illusions": a Novel in Contrasts
May 14, 2013
- 2
Comments
Flash, Gleam, Glint, Sparkle: McPhee, Woolf, and Words
May 7, 2013
- 3
Comments
Writing:
Balzac's "Lost Illusions": a Novel in Contrasts
May 14, 2013
- 2
Comments
How to Overcome Your Writing Shame
May 13, 2013
- 4
Comments
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