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Beware of Spell Check

Nick Kolakowski | Posted 09.02.2012 | Home
Read More: Grammar Check, How to Become an Intellectual, Spell Check, Deliverance, Indiana Jones, Writing Tips, Writing, Grammar, Strunk and White, Home News
Nick Kolakowski

Spell check is vital for many people who, for one reason or another, have trouble with certain words. It wants to help you out: the problems only start when you use it as an excuse to avoid the necessary reread.

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WATCH: Hilarious, Ridiculous 'Elements Of Style' Rap

Zoë Triska | Posted 02.18.2012 | Books
Read More: Grammar, Elements of Style, Elements of Style Rap, Grammar Rules, Strunk and White, Lit Vid, Lit Vids, Books News
Zoë Triska

I decided to bring just one book, to act as a symbol of my monumental move (as a former Literature major, everything is symbolic to me). The one I chose was the newer edition of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style with beautiful illustrations by Maira Kalman.

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Grammar Pet Peeves: Em Dashes—Why Writers Should Use Them More Sparingly

Slate Magazine | Noreen Malone | Posted 07.26.2011 | Books
Read More: Em Dash, Punctuation Grammar, Grammar Pet Peeves, New York Times, Emily Dickinson, Gore Vidal, Associated Press Stylebook, Strunk and White, Books News

According to the Associated Press Stylebook--Slate's bible for all things punctuation- and grammar-related--there are two main prose uses--the abrupt ...

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How to Write a Sentence -- and Why

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: How to Write a Sentence, Elmore Leonard, Mary Shelley, Stanley Fish, Writing Tips, Book Writing, Strunk and White, Books, Writing Technique, Books News
Nina Sankovitch

Stanley Fish's new book, How to Write A Sentence, is a fun book to read for the provided quotations alone. But don't skip the stuff in-between. That's where the lessons are.

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Pickup Lines

Jay Neugeboren | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Pickup Lines, Strunk and White, Dating, Comedy News
Jay Neugeboren

For my eighty-seventh birthday, my son Marvin, a retired New York City high school English teacher, sent me a gift certificate for a weekend conference here in Miami on how to pick up women.

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Large and in Charge

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Depression, Colonialism, Hawthorne, Fat, Strunk and White, My Friend Baker, Glamour Magazine, Girls Body Image, Women and Body Image, Natives, Body Image, How-to-Speed-Up-Metabolism, Christianity, Religious Conversion, Metabolism, Poor Richard's Almanack, My Friend Emily, Chinese Food, Benjamin Franklin, Comedy News
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

Whether you're colonizing natives in the New World or trying to keep women down without actually having to do anything, it's always good to make the people you control feel that everything is their idea.

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Paper of Record Is No Longer Interesting

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Newspapers, Papers of Record, Style, Jon Stewart, Writing, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Media News, Strunk and White, Journalism, Media News
Richard Laermer

Newspapers strive to be viewed as the defenders of society -- holding government and industry accountable for their actions in instances where the eve...

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March Madness: Smart Money Says Cornell

Dennis Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Alma Mater, Oklahoma University, Brad Daugherty, 2009 NCAA Basketball Tournament, Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Syracuse University, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Paypal, Keith Olbermann, Strunk and White, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Sat Scores, Tar Heels, Adolph Coors, North Dakota State University, Jimmy Smits, Red Shirt, Bill Maher, Lsu, The Runnin' Rebels, Cornell University, Princeton Review's Best 361 Colleges, Ivy League, University of Memphis, James Worthy, March Madness, Michael Jordan, Vince Carter, Espn, Wake Forest, The Eyes of Texas, Nobel Laureates, Demon Deacons, Ty Lawson, Randy Newman, University Admission Standards, Orangemen, Disney, University-of-Texas-Austin, Sports, Comedy News
Dennis Danziger

This year I've adopted a new system. I'm betting on the colleges with the highest SAT scores and the strictest admission's policies.

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