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Blog Excerpts
Paint the Town Read
Sat Jun 02 00:00:00 EDT 2007
Denver redux: Last week's blog excerpt talked about Denver's storytelling project. But Denver residents aren't the only ones telling stories about their beloved city. Paint the Town Read is an interactive map of Denver that connects the city to notable literary passages about it -- inspired by Jack Kerouac's Mile High musings in On the Road.
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Language Lounge
Harmless Drudgery and its Antidote
Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2007
This month we open the kimono for lounge visitors and reveal why Samuel Johnson, all those many years ago, characterized lexicographers as harmless drudges.
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Blog Du Jour
Test Your Grammar
Wed May 30 00:00:00 EDT 2007
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Dog Eared
Summer Reading: Creativity
Wed May 30 00:00:00 EDT 2007
Starting this week, we're inviting an engaging and eclectic group of folks to recommend reads for the beach and pool this summer. Our first guest contributor is Scott Ginsberg. Known as "That Guy with the Nametag," he's a guy who knows how to think creatively. Scott's an author and professional speaker whose books, including The Power of Approachability, talk about the force and virtues of first impressions. He recommends these books on developing your creativity:
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Word Count
Be Kind To Your Readers
Mon May 28 00:00:00 EDT 2007
Like many ex-journalists, I pride myself in being skeptical. But my Lou Grant exterior is sometimes defeated by my inner Pollyanna. When that happens, I enjoy reading a blog by Love Is the Killer App author Tim Sanders.
In an April 3 entry, Tim argues that simply being kind is one of the keys to success. "A 2002 study on customer service found that if you are likeable and competent," he writes, "you have a threefold increase in the likelihood of getting satisfactory service."
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Blog Excerpts
Rocky Mountain High
Sat May 26 00:00:00 EDT 2007
"Stories are how we connect with each other on the most fundamental human level," write the team behind Mile High Stories. They gather stories from Denver, Colorado, residents and share these rich narrative voices on the Internet. Ready for a story? Click here.
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Backstory
Catherine Jinks, author of "Evil Genius"
Sat May 26 00:00:00 EDT 2007
I have a nephew called Robert. About three years ago, when Robert was still quite small, I was in his bedroom with my husband Peter, and Robert's dad. As we were talking, my husband picked up Robert's Professor Gangrene doll, which had a particularly revolting, greenish face. And when my husband heard the doll's name, he said, "What I want to know is, where do all these criminal masterminds get their degrees from?" Whereupon Robert's dad immediately replied: "From the university of Evil."
Immediately, my antennae went up. That's how most writers work: we often get our best ideas from conversations like this.
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Word Count
Translating Food
Wed May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2007
How do you capture the sense of a cuisine in words? To find out we called the acclaimed chef Rick Bayless, the author of six books on Mexican cooking and host of the PBS show "Mexico -- One Plate at a Time." We had a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation with him about food, language, 1940s anthropologists, and his latest cookbook, Mexican Everyday:
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Blog Du Jour
Take Two Pills and...
Wed May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2007
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Lesson Plans
Learning Grammar Through Wordplay
Mon May 21 00:00:00 EDT 2007
In this lesson, students master some of the more interesting and challenging vocabulary words from a New York Times article by analyzing the writer's use of nouns and verbs in the article and then constructing original sentences using those words in different contexts. This lesson has multiple objectives-to teach the grammatical components of a sentence, to help students broaden their vocabularies, and to help students use wordplay as a means of teaching sentence structure.
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