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  1. Wordmasters

     WordMasters: Grade 8 Gold Division Jan-Feb '08
    Fri Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2008

  2. Blog Excerpts

     Librarians Know Best
    Thu Jan 10 00:00:00 EST 2008
    Looking for a website on literature and books? How about 10,000 of them? The Librarians' Internet Index is a publicly-funded website where a team of librarians ferret out the best and brightest online resources for a myriad of subjects. Check out their lit listings here.

  3. Blog Du Jour

     Brand, Brand, Brand
    Wed Jan 09 00:00:00 EST 2008
    Hmm, do you detect a theme to the blogs listed below? If you're working on your company's or product's brand, these sites offer advice, insight, real-world examples and more. Check them out:

    Brand Autopsy

    Brand Infection

    Brand New

    BrandCurve

    BrandNoise

  4. Candlepower

     Copywriting Case Study: Selling a Secret
    Wed Jan 09 00:00:00 EST 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:
    Oxford University is renowned throughout the world for the quality of its education and the beauty of its buildings. Less well known, however, is that each of the colleges of the university is its own independent organization, with an obligation, where possible, to raise revenue for the college. This is often done by hiring out the college facilities for conferences, seminars and other functions when the students don't need them -- evenings, vacations, weekends.

  5. Dog Eared

     Best Books Ever
    Tue Jan 08 00:00:00 EST 2008

    A couple of weeks ago we listed lists of the Best Books of 2007. Today we offer lists of the 100 best fiction and nonfiction books ever. At least according to the Modern Library. Here are their lists (and a competing one). And here are a few of your humble editor's favorite books from said lists:

    A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

    Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

    The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Wilson

    The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

  6. Behind the Dictionary

     And the Word of the Year is...
    Mon Jan 07 00:00:00 EST 2008
    So what exactly makes a word the Word of the Year? The Visual Thesaurus traveled to the American Dialect Society's annual meeting in Chicago last week to find out. For the past eighteen years this scholarly group has been selecting words or phrases that have become newly prominent or notable in American English. Their goal is to demonstrate that change in language is normal, nonstop -- and even fun.

  7. Behind the Dictionary

     Predicting New Words
    Thu Jan 03 00:00:00 EST 2008
    How do words enter our lexicon? Which ones survive in our language? Which ones die? Forensic linguist Dr. Allan Metcalf has developed a method to predict the success or failure of a word that's almost foolproof. English professor and registrar of MacMurray College in Illinois, Allan is also the Executive Secretary of the American Dialect Society, which famously announces their annual Word of the Year. It is this exercise that served as the catalyst for Allan's investigations, which he explains in his book Predicting New Words. We spoke to him about his fascinating findings, and, of course, the Word of the Year:

  8. Dog Eared

     Allan Metcalf's Books

  9. Blog Du Jour

     Workshops and Conferences for Writers
    Wed Jan 02 00:00:00 EST 2008

    Want to brush up on your writing craft? How about attending a writing workshop? Here are a few of the many outstanding writing workshops and conferences held from coast to coast:

    Writers Studio at UCLA Extension

    Jackson Hole Writers Conference

    Bread Loaf Writers Conference

    Maui Writers Conference

    (Click here to find more writer workshops and conferences)

  10. VT Tip o' the Week

     The Word Display
    premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2008
    Words are connected to meanings by solid lines. Meanings are represented by circles that are color-coded to indicate their part of speech. There are four parts of speech represented in the Visual Thesaurus: Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. All the words connected to the same meaning are synonyms. Antonyms, pairs or words that express opposite concepts, are connected by dashed red lines.
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