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Can Forgetting Help You Learn?
Here's hope for when your brain feels like a seive
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Ten Words from Today's NY Times
Ten Words from Today's NY Times
Take on Ten Words from Today's Times - April 4, 2012.
Then see Vocabulary Begets Vocabulary: The More You Know, the More You Learn to understand why learning these words will help you absorb even more as you read.
Some writing students are taught that there is a four letter word that they should avoid using in their writing: S-A-I-D. They are cautioned that if they repeat the use of said (or say) for attributing quotes or for introducing dialogue, that this repetition will bog down their writing and bore their readers.
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Last month, a post at the Poynter Institute took a strong stand: "It's time for copy editors to loosen the cardigan when it comes to 'media,'" Andrew Beaujon wrote. He said he felt "like a tool writing 'The media are.'"
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Word RoutesExploring the pathways of our lexicon
On Opening Day, Remembering How Baseball Begat "Jazz"
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Words You Need to See in the Wild
Words You Need to See in the Wild
Is fritter a delicious fried pastry? Or what you did when you spent your inheritance on Botox and truffles? If contemporary means “belonging to the present time,” how come you can’t use it interchangeably with current, as in “Change the channel––the contemporary show is boring as all get out”?
Learn fritter, contemporary, and nine other context-sensitive words in a new list in the Test Prep category, Words You Need to See in the Wild.
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