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  1. Lesson Plans

     Analyzing the Language of Presidential Debates
    Thu Oct 09 00:00:00 EDT 2008
    How can a presidential candidate's linguistic patterns in a debate further reveal his or her political agenda?

  2. Word Routes

     How the King Overcame His Stutter
    Fri Dec 10 00:00:00 EST 2010
    This weekend, the movie "The King's Speech" gets its nationwide release in the United States, and it's already getting talked about as a front-runner for the Oscars. It has also received a great deal of buzz in the speech therapy community for its sensitive and credible depiction of King George VI's speech impediment and the methods that his therapist Lionel Logue used to overcome it. I take a look at the movie and the real-life story in my latest On Language column, appearing in the Oscars issue of the New York Times Magazine.

  3. Backstory

     Sheila Curran, author of "Diana Lively is Falling Down"
    Sat Jul 22 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    In 1998, when my husband announced that he'd been invited to Oxford University for a year, I made an announcement of my own. I was having a mid-life crisis, thank you very much. Therefore, I wished to stay in Arizona and write fiction.

    Unlike most normal red-blooded American women of a certain age, I hate to travel, unless it's to a familiar place, to see people I already know. For me, travel is an opportunity to be reacquainted with my dearest anxieties: flying, packing, shipwreck, public toilets, nameless indigenous insects and being stranded without lunch by the thief in the American Express commercial.

  4. Word Count

     Foreign Tongue... English Writing
    Wed Oct 11 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    How do you capture the flavor and texture of another language in your writing? To find out we spoke to Alfredo José Estrada, Cuban-born author of the novel Welcome to Havana, Señor Hemingway and the forthcoming history, Havana: Autobiography of a City (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Both books lyrically convey Cuban culture and language across a span of historical periods. Alfredo explains how he makes this happen:

  5. Backstory

     Patricia Wood, author of "Lottery"
    Sat Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    "That is so totally cool!" There was no one in the room but I was hearing a voice. Not deep but definitely a man's voice. With something. A timbre of breathlessness? Joy maybe? That's what it was. Joy. It's not that I commonly hear things. Well, maybe I do. I'm a writer after all. But this voice was persistent. I didn't know who he was yet or where he came from. I only knew one thing. He was probably going to be a character in my next book.

  6. Department of Word Lists

     Cheese Words
    Fri Nov 16 00:00:00 EST 2007

    Chef Terrance Brennan is the founder of Artisanal Premium Cheese, a company that practices the fine art of affinage -- the age-old craft of maturing and aging cheese to achieve peak flavor. He's also something of a cheese revolutionary -- a chef who's helped Americans discover and appreciate the sublime magic of handcrafted artisanal cheese (we'll get to that word in a minute). What better person to ask about cheese words?

    Paste. "The body within the rind of the cheese, what the French call the 'pate.' In other words, the interior of the cheese."

    Farmstead. "Cheese milked and produced from the same farm."

  7. Candlepower

     Copywriting Case Study: Building Business Success
    Mon Mar 17 00:00:00 EDT 2008

    Here's the latest case study of real-life copywriting in action graciously sent to us by Sarah Williams, the head of Wordsmith in England. Thanks, Sarah! (Check out our interview with her here.)

    The project:
    Bizlinx International, a business networking organization (though, for reasons that you'll learn below, business networking is really not the term I should use here) was looking to re-brand and re-position itself after four or five years of successful trading in Australia and New Zealand. (They also have a small presence in the UK.) Wordsmith was appointed to write all the new material for web and print, as well as re-write and re-brand all the existing material. We were also tasked to project manage the whole undertaking, liaising with branding specialists, designers and web developers to deliver a finished product to the client.

  8. Word Routes

     How's Your Crosswordese?
    Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 EST 2009
    With this year's American Crossword Puzzle Tournament just around the corner, there is no better time to consider that peculiar, vowel-heavy brand of English known as "crosswordese." Think you're a first-rate cruciverbalist? Quick: can you tell an anoa from an unau?

  9. Word Count

     How to protect the future you who writes
    Thu Jun 23 09:00:00 EDT 2022
    Life challenges can derail any writer, but these tips can help you move forward while offering some care and grace to yourself

  10. Teachers at Work

     Helping Your Students Spend $80,000: The College Search in Your Classroom
    Fri Nov 09 00:00:00 EST 2007

    Shannon Reed is an award-winning playwright who teaches high school English to a large pack of bright young women at a private school on the beach in Queens, New York. She graciously contributed this column:

    If you're a teacher, you've no doubt already have made the following observation: the two emotions that truly motivate a student are genuine interest... and fear. Many of us no doubt experienced this phenomenon ourselves when we were in school. I remember being motivated to do good work in three classes in high school: English and History, which I genuinely loved, and Earth Science, where the fearsome Mr. Colsun looked ever-ready to explode into a hellish ball of flame that would singe my eyebrows and ruin my complexion if I mislabeled the periodical table one more time. Mr. Colsun, I wish you ill, but to this day, I still know were mercury goes.

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