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Books we love

Sell It Now
Mon Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2007

These books will help you understand -- and navigate -- marketing, branding and advertising in our TiVo-charged, Internet-fueled, "post-television" age:

Buzzmarketing

Life After the 30-Second Spot

Nobrow

Mediated

The Conquest of Cool

Trendspotting

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Contest

The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: July Edition!
Sat Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2007

Ready for this month's puzzle? Okay, give it a whirl! Like all our crosswords, use the Visual Thesaurus to help you figure out the puzzle's theme. Think you know the answer? Let us know by clicking here. Please submit your answer by August 1, 2007. How about last month's crossword? The theme was "support group." Thanks to all who solved and sent it!  Continue reading...
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Blog Excerpts

"Blogging for a Good Book"
Sat Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2007

Stumped for a book? The Williamsburg Regional Library in Virginia to the rescue! The library publishes a website where "a different staff member picks favorite reviews" each week. Book reviews change daily. Check out today's selection here.
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Word Count

Writers Talk About Writing

How to Proofread
Wed Jul 18 00:00:00 EDT 2007
By Daphne Gray-Grant

I recently wrote a newsletter about grammar checkers and somehow let my brain turn off long enough to type "grammer." And while I proofed the newsletter carefully, I managed to miss checking the subject line, which was where the error resided. Talk about embarrassing.  Continue reading...
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Blog Du Jour

Summer School
Wed Jul 18 00:00:00 EDT 2007

Think teachers are just kicking back this summer? Not so fast. Check out these teacher blogs, alive with news, stories, opinions, controversy, and, okay, a little vacation fun:

Education in Texas

NYC Educator

Schools Matter

California Teacher Guy

A Passion For Teaching and Opinions

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Lesson Plans

Put the VT to work in your classroom

The Visual Thesaurus and the SAT
Mon Jul 16 00:00:00 EDT 2007

This lesson introduces students to sentence completion questions and then better prepares them for this section of the SAT by having them use the Visual Thesaurus to formulate original sentence completion questions to stump their classmates.  Continue reading...
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Dog Eared

Books we love

New Journalism
Mon Jul 16 00:00:00 EDT 2007

Capote. Mailer. Didion. Wolfe. These literary lions burst the conventions of traditional journalism, helping invent a "new journalism" through their storytelling that forever changed the way we look at our culture. Check out these books to read more:

The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight (the story of New Journalism)

The Art of Fact (anthology)

Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

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