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  1. Evasive Maneuvers

     Professional Disharmony Synergies and Other Gobbledygook
    Wed Sep 11 00:00:00 EDT 2019
    English never lets you down, as long as you don't expect it to tell the truth. Here's a cavalcade of caca for you.

  2. Weekly Worksheet

     Road Work Ahead
    Mon Jun 25 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    Transition words can act like road signs for the reader — by providing indications of what is to come in the phrase, sentence, or paragraph. This week's worksheet asks students to explore the meanings and uses of some common transition words on The Visual Thesaurus and to then categorize those transition words according to the roles they play in context.

  3. Shameless Self Promotion

     Now Wear This!
    Wed Nov 08 00:00:00 EST 2006
    Give your favorite somebody your favorite word map! Now you can order a Visual Thesaurus word map on a t-shirt, mug, even a postage stamp. Simply search for a word, click on the "Share" button on top right hand of the Visual Thesaurus window, and follow the easy steps. We can't think of a better gift -- or a gift to yourself, for that matter! (Hey, we're biased!)

  4. Blog Excerpts

     The Jane Austen Monster Mash Continues
    Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Surely the most unexpected success in the literary world this year has been Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith, a campy mashup pitting Jane Austen's Bennet sisters against legions of the undead. Since its publication in April, P&P&Z has sold more than 600,000 copies, inspiring a number of other zombified takes on classic literature. Now comes word that the publisher of P&P&Z, Quirk Books, is cashing in on the trend with a new title, Sense and Sensibility and (wait for it) Sea Monsters.

  5. Teachers at Work

     Ducking Under the Caution Tape: Approachable Poems
    Mon Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 2012
    Before I began teaching, I had assumed that the many stories I had heard about how students don't like poetry were just myths. After all, I liked (some) poetry, so why wouldn't my students like (some) poetry? But unlike nearly every other myth I've dismissed in my time as a teacher, the one about poetry proved to be true: Nothing makes my students whine more than being handed a poem.

  6. Backstory

     John Cotter, Author of "Under the Small Lights"
    Fri Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2010

    I used to play at being a writer.

    Afternoons in Boston, in my early 20s, I'd pour three fingers of Black Bush whiskey, feed a page into my typewriter, and surround my desk with books by whoever I was reading then — Bill Knott, Marguerite Duras — and add to that bibles and newspapers. I'd open to random pages and write down whatever caught my eye, whatever seemed anachronistic or poignant, then I'd make a hash out of it.

  7. Candlepower

     Amo, Amas, Amateur
    Thu Feb 18 09:00:00 EST 2021
    If we were guided by history and etymology, we'd all be proud to wear amateur on our sleeves.

  8. Teachers at Work

     Theme for Visual T: Teaching the Poetry of Langston Hughes
    Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2008
    I'm a big Langston Hughes fan; he had a gift for putting ideas into challenging yet embracing truths, and boy, was the man prolific. He wrote dozens of poems, plays, short stories and novels, many that are appropriate for a middle- and high-school-age classroom.

  9. Evasive Maneuvers

     Reacting Incorrectly to Banking Task Forces
    Wed Jun 08 00:00:00 EDT 2016
    Last month I mentioned the odd new nonsense-clature lingerie company Neon Moon is using for their clothes: preposterously, numbered sizes are being replaced by lovely, beautiful, and gorgeous.That reminded me of the Arrested Development episode in which a new-age school gave Maeby Funke a crocodile rather than a C, in hopes of sparing her fragile, flower-like self-esteem. Somehow I forgot an even battier euphemism from the same episode.

  10. Candlepower

     Meet the New Eponyms
    Mon Aug 14 00:01:00 EDT 2017
    Fictional eponyms are a new frontier for brand naming, and the territory is quickly becoming well populated. A partial list includes Amazon's Alexa, the health insurance company Oscar, the "intelligent oven" June, and the mattress brand Eve. The first-name brand isn't your boss – it's your buddy.
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