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  1. Word Routes

     Are the Kids "Alright" or "All Right"?
    Tue Jul 20 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The new film The Kids Are All Right, directed by Lisa Cholodenko, owes an obvious debt of gratitude to The Who, even though the band's music doesn't appear on the soundtrack. The title is lifted from a classic song from The Who's 1965 debut album, which also served as the title of a 1979 documentary about the band. Discerning readers will notice a small but important difference: the song and the documentary were spelled "The Kids Are Alright." Did Cholodenko "correct" The Who's spelling?

  2. Backstory

     Evie Wyld, Author of "After the Fire, a Still Small Voice"
    Mon Jul 19 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    One of the most important moments in writing my novel, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, came when I realized I could reach outside of reality.

  3. Word Routes

     Remembering "The Voice of God"
    Fri Jul 16 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    A great voice was silenced earlier this week with the death of Bob Sheppard, longtime public-address announcer for New York Yankees baseball games and New York Giants football games. Sheppard, who also worked as a speech teacher at the high school and college level in New York, had such a memorable way of announcing players' names that he was fondly known as "the voice of God."

  4. Word Count

     Revising Freedom: Jefferson's Rough Draft
    Thu Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    New techniques of "digital archaeology" reveal long-lost secrets about how Thomas Jefferson tinkered with word choice while drafting the Declaration of Independence. University of Illinois linguist Dennis Baron has the full story.

  5. Teachers at Work

     Unlike People, Words Like Labels
    Wed Jul 14 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Should college students be taught the parts of speech? Writing teacher Margaret Hundley Parker explains why she takes the time to work through this seemingly basic aspect of grammar with her students.

  6. Word Routes

     Meet the Dinosaur with "Mojo"
    Tue Jul 13 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    What happens when paleontologists get together for drinks and brainstorm for names of dinosaur species? They come up with Mojoceratops, inspired by the mystical, magical mojo. And with the publication of a paper in the Journal of Paleontology this week, the name is official.

  7. Word Count

     Are You a Drip Who Leaves Writing to the Last Minute?
    Mon Jul 12 00:00:00 EDT 2010

    It was a Friday night and I was sitting at my computer studying Google maps. I had to give a speech to more than 200 people the next morning and — given my notoriously bad sense of direction — wanted to be sure I was heading for the right place.

    Suddenly, my husband yelled from the basement four words no homeowner wants to hear: "We have a leak."

  8. Word Routes

     Rocking the English Language
    Fri Jul 09 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The latest quarterly update of the Oxford English Dictionary's online revision project covers the alphabetical range Rh to rococoesque, and it includes a fascinatingly complex entry for a seemingly simple word: rock, used as a verb. From the rocking of cradles in Old English sources to the rocking of microphones in rap lyrics, this entry has it all.

  9. Word Count

     Does Spelling Still Matter?
    Thu Jul 08 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Erin Brenner of Right Touch Editing provides "bite-sized lessons to improve your writing" on her engaging blog The Writing Resource. Here Erin wonders about the fate of spelling in the era of text messaging.

  10. Teachers at Work

     Be Not Afraid to Tackle Social Media
    Wed Jul 07 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Teachers, are you wary of using social media and other online tools to foster student communication? Follow these tips from Michele Dunaway, who teaches English and journalism at Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, Missouri (when she's not writing best-selling romance novels).
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