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  1. Blog Excerpts

     Keep Track of "Track Changes"
    Sat Apr 07 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    "Track Changes" is the popular tool in MS Word that lets you work on a documents collaboratively, a handy option that many of us use every day. But as the website Law Practice Today cautions: "Some features could lead to potentially embarrassing, revealing or compromising situations." When attorneys raise the red flag, it pays to take precautions. How? Read the article here.

  2. Backstory

     Melanie Lynne Hauser, author of "Confessions of Super Mom"
    Sat Apr 07 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    When I wrote Confessions of Super Mom, I wrote it as a stand alone book. Meaning I had no thought of continuing the story further. I was not a reader of series books; women's fiction, at least at that time, didn't really put out many series. They were mainly single titles, and that was what I read, and it was what I thought I'd written.

  3. Blog Du Jour

     Putting It Plainly
    Wed Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    "People who require assistance," in other words, "if you need help," that is, help writing clearly and in plain language, check out the resources below. In the event that you, to cite an example, endeavor to discourse about the products of your company -- whoa, hold on there -- I mean, if you want to talk, say, about your company's products, why not do it simply and succinctly? (Thanks to the terrific Manage Your Writing for the inspiration)

    Write For Your Reader, A Plain Language Handbook

    The S.E.C.'s Plain English Handbook

    Online Technical Writing

    Plain Train, Plain Language Online Training

  4. Behind the Dictionary

     The Grandiloquent Gumshoe Speaks
    Wed Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    Language authority Charles Harrington Elster is the "Grandiloquent Gumshoe," a word sleuth who gives no quarter to pompous usage and other tomfoolery. The author of The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations and What in the Word?, Charles is also a seasoned radio commentator and, as he says, "a fellow woolgatherer in the world of words." We had a lively discussion with him about language, usage -- and where he draws the line.

  5. Dog Eared

     Freelance Writer Books
    Mon Apr 02 00:00:00 EDT 2007

    Want to sell articles to magazines? Write copy for businesses? Author Michael Stelzner, who produces the blog Writing White Papers, recently compiled a list of his top ten books for writers, including these guides to freelance writing:

    The Renegade Writer. "Achieve freelance writing success the unconventional way."

    The Well-Fed Writer. "Put more food on the table with proven methods for freelancers."

    The Elements of Copywriting. "THE guide for writing copy intended to sell."

    The Copywriter's Handbook. "Techniques for freelance copywriters."

  6. Language Lounge

     The New Food
    Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    We're foraging in the Lounge this month and don't even need to visit the Language Larder to do so; all the food is at our fingertips.

  7. Blog Excerpts

     The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
    Sat Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    Its final edition published in 1911, the "Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia" filled 12 volumes with over half a million entries, the largest dictionary of its kind. (See the Wikipedia description here) This singular work of scholarship was never again revised or expanded -- but it's now available on the web. Click here to check it out. (For a little fun, look up the definition for "ship" -- complete with 251-point illustration of a merchant sailing ship)

  8. Backstory

     Jack Getze, author of "Big Numbers"
    Sat Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    Over a woe-is-me, three-martini lunch twenty years ago, a pal and fellow disgruntled stockbroker told me a tale that became the basis for my debut novel, Big Numbers. A half-eaten olive spat from my mouth even before I heard the punchline. "Say that again?"

  9. Blog Du Jour

     Teachers Talk...
    Wed Mar 28 00:00:00 EDT 2007

    The teachers who write the following blogs share their hard-earned wisdom and invite fellow educators weigh in with their own thoughts. Go ahead, join their conversation:

    The Reflective Teacher

    Educating the Dragon

    From the Trenches of Public Ed.

    RedKudu

    A Shrewdness of Apes

  10. Teachers at Work

     Personal Essays in the Classroom
    Wed Mar 28 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    The Paideia School in Atlanta, Georgia, runs an innovative program to help their middle school students become better writers, with an added bonus: it also helps them become better people. How? By focusing their writing on personal essays. One of the teachers who helps shape this course is Andrea Sarvady, a talented educator with a unique background -- she's also an accomplished author and trained therapist. We spoke to Andrea about the program:
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