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Dana Huff

Law.com - In the Case of the Billion-Dollar ERISA Typo, 7th Circuit Upholds Win for Ver... - 2 views

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  • Dana Huff on 16 Aug 10
     
    This article would be great for teaching the importance of proofreading.
Adam Babcock

NPR Morning Edition - College Application Essays - 10 views

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  • Adam Babcock on 29 Aug 10
     
    class: Here are some examples of good college essays / personal statements that NPR published or aired.
Adam Babcock

Descriptive Words List of Adjectives Word Reference - DescriptiveWords.Org - 9 views

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    An online reference for expressing in more descriptive ways.
Adam Babcock

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com - 5 views

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  • Native American languages impose on their speakers a picture of reality that is totally different from ours, so their speakers would simply not be able to understand some of our most basic concepts, like the flow of time or the distinction between objects
  • rash-landed on hard facts and solid common sense, when it transpired that there had never actually been any evidence to support his fantastic claims
  • new research has revealed that when we learn our mother tongue, we do after all acquire certain habits of thought that shape our experience in significant and often surprising ways.
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  • if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about
  • You may well wonder whether my companion was male or female, but I have the right to tell you politely that it’s none of your business. But if we were speaking French or German, I wouldn’t have the privilege to equivocate in this way
  • but I do have to tell you something about the timing of the event: I have to decide whether we dined, have been dining, are dining, will be dining and so on. Chinese, on the other hand, does not oblige its speakers to specify the exact time of the action in this way, because the same verb form can be used for past, present or future actions.
  • When speakers were asked to grade various objects on a range of characteristics, Spanish speakers deemed bridges, clocks and violins to have more “manly properties” like strength, but Germans tended to think of them as more slender or elegant.
  • gendered languages” imprint gender traits for objects so strongly in the mind that these associations obstruct speakers’ ability to commit information to memory
  • When French speakers saw a picture of a fork (la fourchette), most of them wanted it to speak in a woman’s voice, but Spanish speakers, for whom el tenedor is masculine, preferred a gravelly male voice for it.
  • Nonetheless, once gender connotations have been imposed on impressionable young minds, they lead those with a gendered mother tongue to see the inanimate world through lenses tinted with associations and emotional responses that English speakers — stuck in their monochrome desert of “its” — are entirely oblivious to.
Mary Worrell

The Future Of Reading | Wired Science | Wired.com - 7 views

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  • I sometimes wonder why I’m only able to edit my own writing after it has been printed out, in 3-D form. My prose will always look so flawless on the screen, but then I read the same words on the physical page and I suddenly see all my clichés and banalities and excesses
    • Mary Worrell
      Mary Worrell on 09 Sep 10
       
      I have the same issue. As a business reporter out of college, my first copy editor pushed me to start printing out my drafts for my first round of edits. My editing was much more in-depth and thoughtful, which made her job a lot easier.
  • Mary Worrell on 09 Sep 10
     
    Just another person's opinion on the future of reading and the future of books, but I found it interesting!
Dana Huff

Zoho Writer - Choosing the Extended Essay2007 - 7 views

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  • Dana Huff on 23 Sep 10
     
    St. Columba's College English department's transition year extended essay assignment is a great project.
Mary Worrell

Confusing Words - 11 views

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  • Mary Worrell on 07 Sep 10
     
    Great reference for teachers and students. Plug in a confusing word (effect versus affect, for example) and get help.
Dana Huff

Gene Weingarten - Goodbye, cruel words: English. It's dead to me. - 7 views

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    The English language, which arose from humble Anglo-Saxon roots to become the lingua franca of 600 million people worldwide and the dominant lexicon of international discourse, is dead. It succumbed last month at the age of 1,617 after a long illness. It is survived by an ignominiously diminished form of itself.
Dana Huff

George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946 - 10 views

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  • Dana Huff on 22 Sep 10
     
    Orwell's advice to writers.
Adam Babcock

Free Online Graph Paper / Storyboard Paper - 5 views

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  • Adam Babcock on 26 Sep 10
     
    Use this generator to make make blank storyboard templates and download them as a pdf
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