polymath
Subscriber since: July 2007
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Book collecter preferring biography, classics, self improvement and leadership
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Favorite Word:

polymath
a person of encyclopedic learning. Self taught. .
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Least Favorite Word:

alien
As in illegal alien. Hate the term. My grandparents were immigrants not aliens.

Favorite Quote:

"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self."
- Franz Kafka

Favorite Topics:

Grammar:

Punctuation Point: The Serial Comma
March 18, 2010
Grammar Rules!
March 11, 2010

Language:

Stay Tuned for Language Mavenry
March 19, 2010
An "On Language" Introduction
March 17, 2010

Language arts:

Short But Rarely Sweet: Short Stories in the Classroom
March 15, 2010
Let Freedom Ring!
February 18, 2010

Linguistics:

A Troop of One
November 11, 2009
More on "Text(ed)"
November 2, 2009

Linguists:

Career in Linguistics. You Sure?
June 30, 2007
Fun Lovin' Linguists
June 20, 2007

Reading:

Short But Rarely Sweet: Short Stories in the Classroom
March 15, 2010
Reading What You Want
March 9, 2010

Teachers:

Choosing Literature in an Age of Distraction
February 15, 2010
Knowing Write from Wrong: How I Get My Classes to Write
January 11, 2010

Teaching:

Short But Rarely Sweet: Short Stories in the Classroom
March 15, 2010
Grammar Rules!
March 11, 2010

Writers:

Rules for Writing Fiction
February 23, 2010
Remembering Salinger
January 29, 2010