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Troupe or Troop? Is That a Dilemma or a Difficulty?
Mon Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2007
If you Google the word "English," one of the top three results -- ahead of giants like the BBC Learning English homepage -- will be a humble but entertaining website called Common Errors in English. It's run by a professor at Washington State University named Paul Brians, a professor specializing in the history of ideas. "This is just a sideline for me," Paul says. But a sideline that has gained a loyal worldwide following since he launched the site in 1997. Paul has now come out with a handy book version of his website called Common Errors in English Usage. (And a daily calendar, too.) We talked to him about his work, and navigating language pitfalls.
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Dog Eared
Write It With Style, Books
Mon Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2007
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Blog Excerpts
Get to Work!
Sat Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2007
Jason Fried, director of software innovator 37 Signals, asks on the website Vitamin: "When you're in 'the zone' you get your best work done. But how do you get in that 'zone' when colleagues, e-mails and IM are vying for your attention?" Read Jason's answer here.
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Backstory
Shelia M. Goss, Author of "My Invisible Husband"
Sat Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2007
So when are you getting married? Subconsciously the idea for my book My Invisible Husband developed from hearing the question one too many times. It tells the tale of one woman's desperate attempt to stop this age-old question posed to all women at some point in their lives.
Being over 30, single and having no kids, people automatically assume the book is about my life. Those things are the few similarities I have with the 34 year old fictional character Nicolette (Nikki) Montana. My Invisible Husband is fiction and strictly a figment of my vivid imagination. Women who have had well meaning family members and friends invade their personal life can probably relate to Nikki and her plight.
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Announcements
We're Hiring!
Thu Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 2007
Join the team that's creating the Visual Thesaurus and the software behind it. We're a downtown New York-based company and we're looking for talented people. Interested? Click here for details.
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Blog Du Jour
Just the Facts, Ma'am
Wed Jan 24 00:00:00 EST 2007
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Word Count
Learning to Write
Wed Jan 24 00:00:00 EST 2007
This much every writer knows is true: You don't get better by working in vacuum. You need feedback, criticism, a good ripping apart of your page every now and again. So where to find this kind of writerly tough love? (Gentle, too!) Author Julie Smith offers an innovative answer -- over the phone. A New Orleans resident and veteran writer, Julie began her career as a newspaper reporter and has won the prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award for her mystery novels. She now teaches "distance learning" writing courses called WritersTrack, where students across the globe get on a conference call and get writing! We spoke to Julie about how to get the most out of writing instruction.
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Dog Eared
Julie's Writing Books
Wed Jan 24 00:00:00 EST 2007
When we asked author and teacher Julie Smith, who we feature in this week's Word Count column, to recommend books on writing, she emailed saying, "My choices are all over the map -- popular authors, literary authors, writing teachers as opposed to authors, and even one literary agent. There's a reason for that: Different points of view are absolutely essential. I think aspiring writers should read them all, and then some. You never know what's going to work for you." Thanks, Julie! Here are her picks:
From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction by Robert Olen Butler
Immediate Fiction: A Complete Writing Course by Jerry Cleaver
No Plot? No Problem! by Chris Baty
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Your Marketing Story: Seven Steps to 'Happily Ever After'
Mon Jan 22 00:00:00 EST 2007
You already know that stories are the foundation of comic books, novels, biographies, and screenplays. Here's what may not seem so obvious: the principles of storytelling are equally as important in successful business communications.
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Ask a Linguist
Sat Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 2007
Have a burning question about language origin, morphology or perhaps the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? Well, why not ask a friendly linguist! Ask-A-Linguist , a service provided by an Internet network of professional linguists, welcomes you to post language-related questions of all kinds on their site.
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