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News Brief

LEX readers who are on Facebook are invited to subscribe to LEX's new Facebook page. While I know that not ...

A Sound Understanding

Recently, on a listserv for professionals interested in spelling, some participants were bothered by my suggestion that Reading "Science" gets ...

Simply Put: Part II

As my last post went up and was seen by the world of LEX readers, I was excited to see ...

Simply Put: Part I

This past fall, I attended the annual conference of the International Dyslexia Association (IDA), as I have nearly every fall ...

Is It Accurate? How Do You Know?

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."  ~Harry S. Truman This post is long overdue. It's ...

I know it’s totally not wiki to say this . . .

. . . but I wrote this wikipedia article about webtext, which is especially cool because it's a webtext on ...

A Measured Respose to Crazy Rumors

I've been a bit of a lunatic about the moon this winter.  Its bright fullness through my unadorned windows, especially ...

Raising Consciousness

You know how sometimes a certain word will keep popping up over and over?  By the time the same word ...

I Wasn’t Born Yesterday, You Know

Certainly educators and authors do not intend to be in error; they are just ignorant ('unknowing') of the structure that ...

A Fine Mess

In teaching language, errors of commission like those above are pretty common. Even more common, however, are errors of omission ...