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I spent most of December helping my 8th grade daughter complete applications for high school. She is applying to private high schools, a process which entails responding to multiple short answer and...
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Remember the days before Spell Check? Back then, turning out writing without spelling or grammar errors meant dedicated proofreading. Then Spell Check came along and saved all of us from our inability...
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Writing is hard. Writing good is harder. For many of us, the idea of stringing words together into sentences, and sentences into paragraphs, is daunting. Case in point: I procrastinated writing this...
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I obsess over words and spend ridiculous amounts of time selecting the right words or phrase for what I am trying to say or write. As someone who often writes communications for others, I agonize over...
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One of my favorite Saturday Night Live skits is Weekend Update where Seth Meyers interviews (or tries to, anyway) the Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started a Conversation With at a Party. In these skits,...
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As a lover of the English language, I have assembled a small library over the years of books about writing (yes, pretty geeky of me, I know). One of my favorite books is Anguished English: An Anthology...
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