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  1. Wordmasters

     WordMasters: Grade 8 Gold Division Nov-Dec '09
    Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 EDT 2009

  2. Behind the Dictionary

     What's "The Dictionary" Anyway?
    Fri Jul 22 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    When people talk about whether a word is "in the dictionary," have you stopped to think about what "the dictionary" actually means? In the following excerpt from her new book How to Read a Word, Elizabeth Knowles takes readers on a brief tour of the dictionary and its historical authority, informed by the likes of Voltaire and Samuel Johnson.

  3. Teachers at Work

     Deviating from the Plot Curve: Teaching Turning Points
    Tue May 10 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    While English teachers are notorious for teaching the plot curve and its inciting incident, rising action and climax, etc., and while this is a great way to analyze literature, one of my most interesting sets of lessons involves leaving the plot curve behind and replacing it with the three-act structure most screenwriters and novelists use today.

  4. Lesson Plans

     Body Language: Vocabulary Rooted in Latin Anatomy
    Thu Nov 17 00:00:00 EST 2011
    How can students use Latin anatomy terms to help them understand the roots and meanings of some contemporary English vocabulary words?

  5. Behind the Dictionary

     A "Literal" Paradox
    Thu Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The English language is full of paradoxes, like the fact that "literally" pretty much always means "figuratively. Other words mean their opposites as well — "scan" means both 'read closely' and 'skim.' "Restive" originally meant 'standing still' but now it often means 'antsy.' "Dust" can mean 'to sprinkle with dust' and 'to remove the dust from something.' "Oversight" means both looking closely at something and ignoring it. "Sanction" sometimes means 'forbid,' sometimes, 'allow.' And then there's "ravel," which means 'ravel, or tangle' as well as its opposite, 'unravel,' as when Macbeth evokes "Sleepe that knits up the rauel'd Sleeue of Care."

  6. Word Count

     The Grammar of Stories
    Mon Dec 25 00:00:00 EST 2006

    Jon Franklin is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning writer and distinguished journalism professor at the University of Maryland, and the author of the classic writing book Writing for Story. He's a pioneer in applying the literary techniques of fiction to nonfiction stories. We had a fascinating conversation with Jon about writing creative nonfiction.

  7. Language Lounge

     Truth, Light, and Knowledge at Your Service
    Mon Oct 03 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    The idea of the "elevator talk" is that you only have the duration of an elevator ride to get your idea across, so you have to strip it to its essentials. Starting long before this idea came along, however, organizations and institutions have striven to encapsulate their essence even more succinctly, in a short form of expression called a "motto."

  8. Word Count

     Word Tasting Note: A "Ghost" Story
    Fri Jan 10 00:00:00 EST 2014

    Ready for a ghost story? In the latest installment of his "Word Tasting Notes," James Harbeck has a ghost story about the word ghost.

    This word has a ghost in it, a little guest in the host: a letter h, symbol of a soft breath, here seen but not heard — like many a spectre.

  9. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: July Edition
    Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 EDT 2008
    Beat the dog days of summer with this month's crossword puzzle. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  10. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: August Edition
    Fri Aug 29 00:00:00 EDT 2008
    In honor of the U.S. presidential conventions, we've got a political theme this month. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
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