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  1. Lesson Plans

     The Continents and Oceans of the World
    Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    How can students use the Visual Thesaurus and mnemonics to help them identify and memorize the continents and oceans of the world?

  2. Blog Excerpts

     "Sinister Buttocks" and the Dangers of Thesaurus Flipping
    Fri Aug 29 00:00:00 EDT 2014
    Earlier this month, the Times Higher Education reported on the practice of "Roget-ing," in which plagiarism is disguised by swapping synonyms found in Roget's Thesaurus for words used in the copied paper. Though untraceable, the resulting language ranges from not quite right to cataclysmically horrible.

  3. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: August Edition
    Fri Aug 30 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    In this month's crossword, we're commemorating the 50th anniversary of The March on Washington with a quotation from Martin Luther King, Jr. Figure it out and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  4. Backstory

     Laura van den Berg, Author of "What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us"
    Thu Aug 26 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The title story of my collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, began with me falling in love with a word: Madagascar. I fell head-over-heels for the cadence, for the way it evoked a Jacques Cousteau-esque sense of adventure and mystery.

  5. Language Lounge

     Chimichangas at the OK Corral
    Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    Two US states celebrate their centenaries in 2012: Arizona and New Mexico. We join them this month with a look at their unique contributions to English, and the characteristic ways in which language contact gives rise to borrowing, hybridization, and neologisms.

  6. Book Nook

     Essential Questions
    Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    You may have heard the educational buzz phrase "essential question" a lot lately, but do you really know what it means? Or how to develop meaningful essential questions of your own? In this excerpt from Learning to Question to Wonder to Learn, technology and teaching guru Jamie McKenzie, Ed.D. explains what makes some questions "essential" and provides some examples for every grade level.

  7. Word Count

     Writing Tools
    Wed Sep 27 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    My favorite bon mot on writing comes from a former editor of the LA Times: "There are only two kinds of writers, bad ones, and the ones trying to get better." If you aspire to the latter group, you must pick up Roy Peter Clark's newly-released Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer. How essential? Well, let me offer my own humble testimonial: Nothing I've ever read has helped me sharpen my writing as much as this collection of tools. I think about strategies like "gold coins," "word space" and "the name of the dog" (not to mention the "power of three") every time I sit down to write a piece. I first came across these tools, by the way, on the website of the Poynter Institute, a school for journalists where Roy's the vice president and senior scholar. Now that Roy's mojo is in book form, you got it made! I called Roy to talk to him about his tools. -- Editor

  8. Language Lounge

     The Perversity of Past Participles
    Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016
    Zero derivation—that is, the ability of a word to perform different grammatical functions without a change in form—is a celebrated feature of English. A sideshow of zero derivation is the fact that English has no barrier to using a principal verb form—the past participle—as an adjective. What's not to love, you may think, about the simplicity of using a single form to do so many jobs? I have no argument with this fantastic and flexible feature of English, only with the license it gives speakers and writers to use it in a weaselly way.

  9. Blog Excerpts

     Flash, Gleam, Glint, Sparkle: McPhee, Woolf, and Words
    Tue May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    In an essay on writing in last week's The New Yorker, John McPhee describes drawing boxes around "perfectly O.K." words in a search for the "mot juste." Meanwhile, Virginia Woolf tells us words are a messy tangle that will always elude our best efforts to tie them down.

  10. Word Routes

     Mailbag Friday: "Brand-New" or "Bran-New"?
    Fri Dec 05 00:00:00 EST 2008

    Dorothy G. of Teeswater, Ontario writes in with today's Mailbag Friday question:

    I have always used bran-new to imply "unused," "just out of the package," etc. But when I look it up, I also find brand-new. Entirely too many years ago, if I used brand-new, I was assured that it was merely a mispronouncing of bran-new. I'd appreciate knowing the difference.
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