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  1. Dog Eared

     College on the Brain
    Tue Feb 19 00:00:00 EST 2008

    Attending college or entering college in the fall? These books will help you thrive in school, no matter how many research papers they throw at you!

    The Ultimate College Survival Guide

    Been There, Should've Done That

    MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers

    Asking the Right Questions

    How to Read a Book

    Grammar Smart

  2. VT Tip o' the Week

     Settings Panel: Shortcuts
    premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers Mon Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2008

    The Shortcuts panel show all of the keyboard shortcuts that are available in the VT. Remember, most keyboard shortcuts are disabled when the settings panel is open. Close the settings panel to try the shortcuts.

    Ctrl+Left
    Back in History

    Ctrl+Up
    Increase Font Size

    Ctrl+Alt+Up
    Increase Scale

  3. Lesson Plans

     Analyzing a Writer's Stance
    Mon Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2008
    In this lesson, students analyze a writer's stance on legacy preferences in college admissions as expressed in a New York Times column. Then, students are asked to defend different points of view on the topic in a roundtable debate.

  4. Candlepower

     Optimizing Your Press Releases For the Web
    Fri Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2008
    According to David Meerman Scott, author of the bestselling book, The New Rules of Marketing and PR, the old rules of PR no longer apply. Thanks to the Internet, marketing and PR professionals shouldn't write press releases for journalists in the hope of getting ink.

  5. Blog Excerpts

     Your Life. In Six Words.
    Thu Feb 14 00:00:00 EST 2008
    Ready to boil your life down to, oh, six words? Talk about a writing challenge. Since 2006, Smith Magazine has been collecting "six word memoirs" from writers both famous and not-so-famous. Check out the latest entries here -- and submit your own micro-memoir!

  6. Blog Du Jour

     Introducing Readers to Writers
    Wed Feb 13 00:00:00 EST 2008

    These blogs review books, introduce writers, cover literary news, offer literary links, and even feature a video or two:

    Beatrice

    BookFox

    Bookburger

    Books, Movies and Chinese Food

  7. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: February Edition!
    Wed Feb 13 00:00:00 EST 2008
    "Love is in the Air" for this month's special Valentine's Day edition of our puzzle. Give it a go and good luck!

  8. Dog Eared

     Great Speeches, The Books
    Tue Feb 12 00:00:00 EST 2008

    These anthologies collect the greatest speeches in history, invaluable for any writer:

    The World's Great Speeches

    Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History

    Words That Shook the World

    The Penguin Book of 20th-Century Speeches

    Great American Speeches

  9. VT Tip o' the Week

     Words Can Have Multiple Meanings
    premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers Mon Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2008

    Many words have multiple meanings (sometimes called senses). The Visual Thesaurus displays meanings as individual circles connected to words. The word pen for example, has six meanings. Five of the meanings for pen are nouns, and one is a verb. For this reason, the circles in the Visual Thesaurus representing meanings are color coded to indicate their different parts of speech. The most common meaning for pen as a noun is "a writing implement with a point from which ink flows." pen can also be used as a verb. When used as a verb, it means "produce a literary work." What is interesting is that the word pen is not in and of itself a noun or a verb. It is the individual meanings of pen that belong to a particular part of speech.

  10. Teachers at Work

     Paper, Butter Crocks, Literature: Crafts and Cooking in the Language Arts Classroom
    Mon Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2008
    "Blancmange?" one of my students said. "What's blancmange?" And suddenly, we weren't talking about themes and relationships in Little Women anymore, but instead about a foodstuff that no one's enjoyed for 200 years.
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