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TGIF: Links to Inspire
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The first full week… Whew… Enjoy a well-earned weekend!
6 Tools to Help You Enjoy Your Job Like a Zen Monk
10 Things to Change to Get What You Want
Tiger Woods’ Rulebook to Success
7 Things I Wish I Knew at my College Graduation
36 Tips to Improve Productivity
If you’re [...]
How Can I Help You?
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Now that the school year is back in full swing… and now that LitGuides has been up and running for two months…
How can I help you?
I have fifteen years experience teaching writing and literature to high schoolers and as I transition to teaching “from home” — online learning for students getting [...]
The Power of Semicolons!
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The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe. — David Hare
For many years, my favorite word has been “ambivalence” – experiencing simultaneous conflicting emotions. And this week’s mark of punctuation is the perfect complement to this word: the semicolon!
The semicolon is so simple, yet powerful. If you have [...]
Is the Web Rescuing Literacy…?
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As a follow-up to my recent post on whether Google is making us stupid, I found this article that discusses whether or not the Web actually increases the literacy of our youth — back to the ‘ol Reading at Any Cost idea…
From the Digital Journal:
The pro-Web faction in the debate about literacy [...]
TGIF: Links to Inspire
photo credit: Perla*
Back from our travels… Ready to be inspired?!
How to Take Personal Responsibility
5 Playground Rules to Live by
How to Simplify Your Life… Really…
How to Avoid Arguing with your Boss
10 Ways to Create Unshakeable Confidence
Best Posts: August 2008
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Well, to celebrate Lit Guides two month anniversary, here is a list of those posts that received the most views and/or comments… Thanks for reading!!
Tuesday Tips: Commas
Reading at any Cost?
Age Labels: Helpful or Hurtful?
Tuesday Tips: Commas and Clauses
What Kids Should Read?
Comma Pairs
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make. — Truman Capote
Before we wrap up our series on comma usage, let’s review what we’ve already covered. First we tackled the role of the comma in lists… then we wrangled with commas and clauses… [...]
Google = Stupid?
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After our recent discussions about what kiddos should/not be reading, this recent article on whether or Google is making us stupid (since we now research and read online, spasmodically, rather than using the deliberate, good, ol’ fashioned paper variety…)
From The Atlantic:
I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had [...]
TGIF: Links to Inspire
photo credit: Pear Biter
Now we’re off to Colorado… Enjoy!
Learn to Say No!
5 Ways to Escape Work Stress
7 Ways to Tackle the Multi-tasking Virus
8 Ways to Have a Productive Day
How to Create Profound and Lasting Change
Wonderful Vocab Resource List
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A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a great resource list of vocabulary sites, courtesy of Dumb Little Man. Here is a sampling of ways to improve your vocabulary:
Visuwords is an awesome visual tool to find new words and improve your vocabulary. When you look up a word in this tool, it [...]
