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  1. Blog Excerpts

     Which Brands Get Verbed?
    Wed Oct 20 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    On The Economist's Johnson blog, contributors are considering the question of why we "Google" and "Facebook," but we don't "PowerPoint" or "Excel." They've proposed some reasonable theories for brand-verbing.

  2. Dog Eared

     Stats Meet Lit in an Insightful New Book About Writing
    Wed Apr 19 00:00:00 EDT 2017
    Anyone interested in literature or becoming a better writer will find something to like here: Blatt doesn't just shine a light on writing, he lets in a whole new area of the electromagnetic spectrum.

  3. Blog Excerpts

     Back in Black: On the Origins of "Black Friday"
    Thu Nov 22 00:00:00 EST 2012
    On Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, Americans kick off the holiday shopping season with a bang. In his Word Routes column last year, lexicographer Ben Zimmer explored the origins of the phrase "Black Friday." It is not, as many believe, the day when retailers' balance sheets change from red to black.

  4. Teachers at Work

     Lori Wilfong on the Do's and Don'ts of Vocabulary Instruction
    Thu Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2013
    In this interview, Lori Wilfong, author of Vocabulary Strategies That Work — Do This, Not That!, describes some of her pet peeves about traditional vocabulary instruction and gives us some fresh ideas about how teachers can enliven their practice with student-generated definitions, word walls, and word jars.

  5. Backstory

     Leslie Schnur, author of "Late Night Talking"
    Sat Jul 28 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    I am obsessed, to say the least, with rude behavior. My kids beg me to ignore it, my husband thinks I'll get shot one day. I have, sometimes, gone too far, and have been rude myself in the quest for justice. But, for some reason, I think it is my duty, my calling, to rid the world of rudeness, one annoying person at a time. Like people who talk on their cell phones at the movies, or who clip their nails in public, or who don't say "thanks" when you hold a door open for them, or who cut in line.

  6. Teachers at Work

     When Grammar Rules Get Confusing, Use Your Head
    Tue Jan 19 00:00:00 EST 2010
    To get across the importance of grammatical rules to her students, writing teacher Margaret Hundley Parker finds that a common-sense approach works best. Here Margaret gives examples of how unclear writing style reflects unclear thinking.

  7. Evasive Maneuvers

     Legitimate Political Poppycock
    Thu Mar 10 00:00:00 EST 2022
    It's only March and we already have a contender for euphemism of the year.

  8. Evasive Maneuvers

     Tricky, Special, Fruitful, Space-Flavored Fiddle-Faddle
    Thu Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2022
    This month's euphemisms feature tricky people, space-flavored sodas and more lexical lunacy.

  9. Word Count

     How to Begin a Story?
    Mon Dec 09 00:00:00 EST 2013
    Stories, we learn in school, must have beginnings, middles, and ends. Creating each leg of the age-old triangle poses daunting challenges, yet for writers eager to write a deathless masterpiece, no challenge is more daunting than beginning.

  10. Word Count

     A Writer's Archive
    Fri Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2014
    If, as a writer, you write long enough, well enough, and popularly enough, your manuscripts, drafts, notes, and letters may someday be gathered, sorted, catalogued, boxed, and stored deep in the bowels of a library archive, ready to be pored over, decades or centuries later, by scholars and biographers eager to learn how and why you wrote as you did.
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