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  1. Language Lounge

     Funny Business
    Thu May 05 00:00:00 EDT 2022
    A funny thing about the word funny is how frequently we use it to fill out the context of what we're about to say.

  2. Word Count

     Seven Sentences You Should Stop Writing
    Mon Nov 23 09:00:00 EST 2020
    Seven common mistakes all writers should look for when editing.

  3. Teachers at Work

     "I Am...": Prompts for Poetry
    Mon Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2012
    Last month, I suggested a dozen or so "approachable" poems, which I've used successfully in my poetry-abhorring classroom. This column builds on that, as I share some of the ideas I've used to help my students write poetry in the classroom.

  4. Word Count

     Nurse Poet
    Mon Aug 14 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    Veneta Masson has practiced nursing for 35 years, mostly in inner-city Washington, DC. Along the way, she found an outlet to express everything she was witnessing and experiencing -- poetry. Veneta started putting together essays and poems about her nursing life and today has two collections in print, Ninth Street Notebook (short pieces) and Rehab at the Florida Avenue Grill (poems). She's also part of a community of nurses who write verse influenced by their profession. Call them Nurse Poets.

    VT: How did you get started writing poetry?

  5. Blog Excerpts

     "Love" is All Around: Data-Mining Song Titles
    Wed Apr 24 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    The language technology company Idibon recently launched a blog, and one interesting contribution comes from Tyler Schnoebelen, who has data-mined the titles of nearly 40,000 songs that have appeared on Billboard's pop charts from 1890 to 2012. It turns out that when it comes to song titles, "love" is most definitely in the air.

  6. Word Count

     Why You Should Copy (A Modest Proposal)
    Thu Jun 14 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    Writing coach Daphne Gray-Grant has an unusual suggestion for writers developing their craft: "Take a published work, written by an author you respect and admire, and copy a portion of it, word for word." Just don't pass it off as your own!

  7. Teachers at Work

     In Which We Research Tapeworms: A SciPlay Update
    Tue Mar 29 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    Last summer, a teacher friend of mine was trying to decide whether to use a new book in her classroom in the coming school year. We spent a long time weighing the merits: in favor of doing so was the stay against boredom that introducing a new text provides. Against? "I would like to not go entirely insane with work this year," she mentioned. Ah yes. The impossible dream.

  8. Teachers at Work

     Teaching the Adolescent Writer
    Wed Dec 05 00:00:00 EST 2007

    Visual Thesaurus subscriber Debbie Shults is a veteran Sarasota, Florida, teacher, literacy coach -- and now blogger -- who we recently interviewed about her work defining a "new literacy" at her middle school. She graciously contributed the following article:

    Middle school students have gained a great deal of notoriety for being difficult to teach. And while it is true that middle school is the New York City of the teaching profession, ("If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere."), veteran middle school teachers know that middle school kids are exceptional learners.

  9. Shameless Self Promotion

     Visual Thesaurus Makes Naming and Branding Easy
    Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2006
    Every once in a while, those of us in marketing and advertising are faced with the challenge of naming a company, a product or a service. This usually means sifting through reams of data and then throwing up hundreds of words on the white board until something sticks. The Visual Thesaurus makes that process so much easier by illustrating the meaning and relationship between words in a graphical format. The white board's stupid. Visual Thesaurus is smart. Which are you?

  10. Blog Excerpts

     Word Routes in the Top 100
    Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Word Routes, the regular column by Visual Thesaurus editor Ben Zimmer, was selected as one of the Top 100 Language Blogs of 2010, in a worldwide competition hosted by bab.la and Lexiophiles. Language blogs were nominated and then ranked according to user votes and other criteria. Check out the whole list here.
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