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The Power of Daily Writing in a Journal
The Wall Street Journal: Charley Kempthorne wakes each morning before sunrise, pours a cup of black coffee, opens his computer and writes in a private journal that he began in 1964. These days, he logs
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Long Before Learning ABCs, Tots Recognize Words Are Symbols
ABC: Celebrate your child’s scribbles. A novel experiment shows that even before learning their ABCs, youngsters start to recognize that a written word symbolizes language in a way a drawing doesn’t — a developmental step
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The Joy of Psyching Myself Out
The New York Times: IS it possible to think scientifically and creatively at once? Can you be both a psychologist and a writer? When you look at the world as a psychologist, you see it
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The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing
The Atlantic: “Persistence is one of the great characteristics of a pitbull, and I guess owners take after their dogs,” says Annetta Cheek, the co-founder of the D.C.-based nonprofit Center for Plain Language. Cheek, an
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Speak and Spell: How Dictation Software Makes Us Rethink Writing
Wired: IF I’VE WRITTEN you an email on my phone lately, you might have noticed something slightly off about it. It doesn’t read like email from me used to. I use fewer contractions, fewer adverbs
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The Science of Scientific Writing
If the reader is to grasp what the writer means, the writer must understand what the reader needs.” -Gopen and Swan (1990), The Science of Scientific Writing Graduate school is like a juggling performance. Successful
