Thinking Out Loud: How Successful Networks Nurture Good Ideas - 0 views
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Author Clive Thompson argues, "The fact that so many of us are writing - sharing our ideas, good and bad, for the world to see - has changed the way we think. Just as we now live in public, so do we think in public. And that is accelerating the creation of new ideas and the advancement of global knowledge." Every day, we collectively produce millions of books' worth of writing. Globally we send 154.6 billion emails, more than 400 million tweets, and over 1 million blog posts and around 2 million blog comments on WordPress. On Facebook, we post about 16 billion words. Altogether, we compose some 3.6 trillion words every day on email and social media - the equivalent of 36 million books.* (The entire US Library of Congress, by comparison, holds around 23 million books.) He notes the Internet has spawned a global culture of avid writers, one almost always writing for an audience, and suggests that writing for a real audience helps clarify one's thinking, enhances learning, and arguably, betters writers' organization, ideas, and attention to editing.
The Lost Slumgullions of English - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Like, Degrading the Language? No Way - 0 views
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/opinion/sunday/like-degrading-the-language-no-way.html
This Is Your Brain on Metaphors - NYTimes.com - 1 views
A Lunar New Year With a Name That's a Matter of Opinion - 0 views
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An interesting article about the difference in language between Western languages and Chinese. While Western languages differentiate between sheep and goats and rams, Chinese do not distinguish this within their language. The article discusses how this has caused interest ad debate in what to call this Lunar Year.
Mishearings - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Op-Ed Contributor - The Magical Properties of Everyday Numbers - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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"A physicist named M. F. M. Osborne noticed that stock prices tended to cluster around numbers ending in zero and five. Why? Well, on the one hand, most people have five fingers, and on the other hand, most people have five more. [...] As it turns out, in well over 100 languages, the words that denote bigness are made with bigger sounds."
Amy Chua Is a Wimp - NYTimes.com - 4 views
The Other Torture Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Decoding Your E-Mail Personality - 2 views
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"When legal teams need to prove or disprove the authorship of key texts, they call in the forensic linguists. Scholars in the field have tackled the disputed origins of some prestigious works, from Shakespearean sonnets to the Federalist Papers. But how reliably can linguistic experts establish that Person A wrote Document X when Document X is an e-mail - or worse, a terse note sent by instant message or Twitter? After all, e-mails and their ilk give us a much more limited purchase on an author's idiosyncrasies than an extended work of literature. Does digital writing leave fingerprints?"
Admissions Essay Ordeal: The Young Examined Life - New York Times - 14 views
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filled whole grocery bags with crumpled efforts at expressing his adolescent essence in 500 words or less.
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And though they seem to have more collaborators than ever before
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''No adult is ever asked to do that.''
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I think it's cool that they ask us to do this, write about what makes us unique, and adults don't do it. I think it's kind of like a test to find yourself and who you are; when that happens, you are ready for college, I guess.
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But most students going into college don't know who we are yet. We often apply undecided becuase we don't know what we want to be. I think part of the college experience is finding who we are. Maybe writing the essay is the first step.
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"Few students are as lucky as Chris Bail [...] When I was about 11 or so, a group of kids threw stones at me, and that stuck in my head. That was just a big, big experience for me, and I guess I'm really lucky to have that because I know kids that are writing about, like, concerts they went to and stuff like that.'' I am disturbed greatly. What does not kill us will only make us stronger... Scary thought: Students trying to get into college will take extremes for more interesting topics to write about. What if it happens? Pressure. It exists. But don't let it RULE or RUIN your life.
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I find it quite sad that students will go to the extremes and seek something that they think admissions officers will find intriguing rather than it coming from their gut and what is important to them. In my opinion the best advice I could give to someone writing their college essay is, be yourself. Don't try to be someone you're not.
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"And though they seem to have more collaborators than ever before, from cooperative English teachers to new Web sites that offer successful essays for sale, the competition seems tougher than ever, now that so many early applicants have whittled the number of available slots." To me the college application is sounding more and more deceptive. By the time you take that raw essay written by purely yourself and it goes through multiple English teachers and websites, and other peers, it goes from your writing to like your teacher's writing. I feel that after all of the processes it goes through, all the people who review it, the finished product really doesn't show the college who YOU are.
With Dyslexia, Words Failed Me and Then Saved Me - 5 views
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"So this summer's news that research is increasingly tying dyslexia not just to reading, but also to the way the brain processes spoken language, was no surprise to me. I found many ways around my dyslexia, but I still have trouble transforming words into sounds. I have to memorize and rehearse before reading anything aloud, to avoid embarrassing myself by mispronouncing words."
More News, Fewer Words - 1 views
Other Men's Flowers - 0 views
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