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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 ...