Dave Frohnmayer, President Emeritus of the University of Oregon, defines the New Tribalism as, the growth of a politics based upon narrow concerns,…
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Wordplay is a fertile field for study in English. Although the following forms of humor should be used sparingly if at all, writers…
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Last week, I offered some simple advice for immediately improving your prose, including suggestions having to do with punctuation, capitalization, and the like.…
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According to a story in the NY Times, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh studied the 279 most popular songs from 2005 looking…
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A recent newspaper blog post about a typographical error on Mitt Romney’s iPhone “With Mitt” app — it refers to “A Better Amercia”…
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You may or may not agree that English-language usage is deteriorating, but it is clear that many young people are unable to express…
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Although I know they are a time-suck, slideshows with intriguing titles or photos often lure me in. The most recent to attract my…
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A few years ago, I wrote a post titled “How Long Should a Paragraph Be?” which argued that various pronouncements that dictate paragraph…
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The effectiveness of any nonfiction manuscript is contingent on no less than three components: the author’s stage of experience in the subject material,…
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In a current article, the Los Angeles Occasions reported on a survey that discovered that the extent of sophistication in oratory within the…