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Showing posts with label Art Library Writers Writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art Library Writers Writing. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Christopher Ingraham – Washington Post: “I ordered a box of crickets…”


Christopher Ingraham – Washington Post: “I ordered a box of crickets…”

This story is too fun: “I ordered a box of crickets from the Internet and it went about as well as you’d expect,” by Christopher Ingraham December 29, 2018 in the Washington Post. Find it here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/12/29/i-ordered-box-crickets-internet-it-went-about-well-youd-expect/?utm_term=.a0a393b763f6 

“For Christmas this year, my family adopted a young bearded dragon lizard as a pet.

“Our dragon, whom we named Holly, eats a lot, and the thing she loves to eat most is crickets (typically about 10 a day, in addition to other things like mealworms and vegetables). From the get-go, I knew that keeping an ample supply of crickets on hand would require some planning. We live in a rural area of northwestern Minnesota. The closest pet shop is an hour away, in North Dakota. Restocking our cricket supply would require a time commitment of at least two hours out and back.

“By Christmas Day this year, Holly’s cricket supply was running low. I decided to order crickets online, which I had never done before, to save a trip to North Dakota. I bought the crickets from Fluker Farms, one of the more well-established online insect vendors (yes, these exist and there are a lot of them). I decided on a shipment of 250 crickets …” Read much more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/12/29/i-ordered-box-crickets-internet-it-went-about-well-youd-expect/?utm_term=.a0a393b763f6 

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Monday, May 15, 2017

Karen Woodward: The Trouble With Adverbs



Karen Woodward: The Trouble With Adverbs: I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs .... - Stephen King, On Writing Why do many writers hate adverbs? When I first read ...

I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs ....
- Stephen King, On Writing
Why do many writers hate adverbs?

When I first read Stephen King's On Writing I confess I thought his stance toward adverbs a tad harsh. How could a part of speech be categorically condemned? As Jeff Chapman writes:
Adverbs shade the meaning of the words they modify. They are grammatical and an accepted part of speech. I've seen them used by well-respected writers. So, what's behind the injunctions against adverbs? (Why No Adverbs?)
As I investigated the roots of the prejudice against the adverb (I was tempted to write "the lowly adverb" but restrained myself) I came to agree with the admonition to eschew the use of adverbs, or at least to try. This blog post is my attempt at a partial explanation of why we should treat the adverb with caution.

Much of what follows has been drawn from Charlie Jane Anders' article, Seriously, What's So Bad About Adverbs?

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Thursday, February 04, 2016

Mark Liberman: Patchwriting - June 13, 2014 Language Log

Mark Liberman: Patchwriting - June 13, 2014 Language Log

Retrieved February 4, 2016 as a result of a discussion on Facebook among a number of writers about an article on Poynter: “Is it original? An editor’s guide to identifying plagiarism:” http://www.poynter.org/2014/is-it-original-an-editors-guide-to-identifying-plagiarism/269273/

I could have sworn that I heard the term, “patchwriting” many-many years ago, but Mark Liberman has traced it back to 1993…

According to Mr. Liberman, in a June 13, 2014 article, “Patchwriting,” published on the website, “Language Log,” “patchwriting has been around for a while.” Find the article here: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=12963

Mr. Liberman reports the origin of the term, “seems to be in Rebecca Moore Howard, ‘A plagiarism pentimento", [sic] Journal of teaching writing 1993…”

Now I do not know what I am talking about but that has never stopped me in the past. Mr. Liberman’s piece is a fascinating read for those of us who celebrate being OCD and getting lost in the weeds over such matters.

I especially appreciated the comments in which one commenter waxed poetically about Immanuel Kant’s use of language from the King James Version of the New Testament and whether or not Kant should have added quotation marks. No mention of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, but Mark Twain, Monty Python, and Shakespeare did post cameo appearances.



“Christopher Ketcham ("The Troubling Case of Chris Hedges: Pulitzer winner. Lefty hero. Plagiarist.", TNR 6/12/2014) documents several cases of sentences and even paragraphs copied verbatim, as well as other cases of "patchwriting": [sic] June 13, 2014 @ 10:37 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Language and the media
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Friday, March 06, 2015

Why digital natives prefer reading in print. Yes, you read that right. - The Washington Post

Why digital natives prefer reading in print. Yes, you read that right. - The Washington Post: By Michael S. Rosenwald February 22, 2015  http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/why-digital-natives-prefer-reading-in-print-yes-you-read-that-right/2015/02/22/8596ca86-b871-11e4-9423-f3d0a1ec335c_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

"Frank Schembari loves books — printed books. He loves how they smell. He loves scribbling in the margins, underlining interesting sentences, folding a page corner to mark his place.

Schembari is not a retiree who sips tea at Politics and Prose or some other bookstore.

He is 20, a junior at American University, and paging through a thick history of Israel between classes, he is evidence of a peculiar irony of the Internet age: Digital natives prefer reading in print.

 “I like the feeling of it,” Schembari said, reading under natural light in a campus atrium, his smartphone next to him. “I like holding it. It’s not going off. It’s not making sounds.”

 Textbook makers, bookstore owners and college student surveys all say millennials still strongly prefer print for pleasure and learning, a bias that surprises reading experts given the same group’s proclivity to consume most other content digitally. A University of Washington pilot study of digital textbooks found that a quarter of students still bought print versions of e-textbooks that they were given for free." ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/why-digital-natives-prefer-reading-in-print-yes-you-read-that-right/2015/02/22/8596ca86-b871-11e4-9423-f3d0a1ec335c_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

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Sunday, July 27, 2014

Sean M. Lynn-Jones: I’m one of the people Sen. John Walsh plagiarized from - The Washington Post



Sean M. Lynn-Jones is editor of the quarterly journal International Security and a research associate at the Belfer Center at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

"On Wednesday afternoon, a flurry of phone calls and e-mails informed me that Sen. John Walsh (D-MT) had apparently included—verbatim and without attribution—several pages of a 1998 paper of mine in a work he submitted to the U.S. Army War College. Walsh’s paper, which also failed to properly reference the work of others, was one of the requirements for the master’s degree he received from the War College in 2007."


Even in 2007, my paper, “Why the United States Should Spread Democracy,” was out of date. I wrote it in 1998, when the Clinton administration was embracing the strategy of spreading democracy.

By 2007, U.S. interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan had, to put it mildly, given democracy promotion a bad name.

The paper needed significant revisions to address what had happened in those two countries, respond to criticisms, and cite the most recent literature. Nevertheless, it remained online and was often the most viewed publication on the Web site of Harvard’s Belfer Center. ...


Friday, May 09, 2014

When cows type: the power of the written word | Poynter.

When cows type: the power of the written word | Poynter.by  Published May 1, 2014 

[...] Read more: http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/249828/when-cows-type-the-power-of-the-written-word/ 

Just this week I addressed a group of college writers at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg and decided to use my 10 minutes to read them “Click, Clack, Moo.” When I announced my intention, I was surprised when a little voice in the middle of the crowd exclaimed, “I love that book!” 

It was a young girl named Isabella, a first or second grader, sitting on her mom’s lap. I invited her to sit next to me so she could enjoy the images in the book along with the text.

In the story, some cows find an old typewriter in a barn and learn to type. 


Farmer Brown hears them typing and talking: “Click clack, moo…clickety clack, moo.” The cows deliver a note to the farmer: that it is too cold in the barn and that they want electric blankets. He is outraged as the protest spreads from cows to chickens. Unless demands are met, there will be no more milk and no more eggs...

Read more: http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/249828/when-cows-type-the-power-of-the-written-word/ 

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Tuesday, May 06, 2014

‘A Fragile Trust’ exhibits irresponsibility behind Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal - The Washington Post

‘A Fragile Trust’ exhibits irresponsibility behind Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal - The Washington Post:

By Published: May 5


http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-fragile-trust-exhibits-irresponsibility-behind-jayson-blair-plagiarism-scandal/2014/05/05/596aca28-d45d-11e3-95d3-3bcd77cd4e11_story.html

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I’d awakened absurdly early in Miami, where I was The Washington Post’s Southern bureau chief, to catch a flight to Texas. I was supposed to write a piece about the family of the last missing U.S. soldier after the fall of Iraq, a 24-year-old Army mechanic named Edward Anguiano. But when I fished the New York Times off my front porch and sleepily scanned the headlines, there was my story — my story! — on the front page of the competition. I barely recognized the byline.

It was some guy named Jayson Blair.

My lousy day got lousier once I arrived in Anguiano’s home town of Los Fresnos, a speck on the map near the Mexican border at the southern tip of Texas. Anguiano’s mother, who had earlier agreed to an interview, blew me off. While I waited at a gas station for her to call me back, I flipped through a folder of background reading. Something bothered me about one of the articles: a San Antonio Express-News piece about Anguiano. But I couldn’t figure out why... http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-fragile-trust-exhibits-irresponsibility-behind-jayson-blair-plagiarism-scandal/2014/05/05/596aca28-d45d-11e3-95d3-3bcd77cd4e11_story.html

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Monday, April 28, 2014

Ten words to cut from your writing - The Globe and Mail

Ten words to cut from your writing - The Globe and Mail:

THE TOP TENS

Ten words to cut from your writing


When you want to make your writing more powerful, cut out words you don’t need – such as the 10 included in this post:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-tools/top-tens/ten-words-to-cut-from-your-writing/article17856428/?utm_content=buffer7f662&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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Friday, April 11, 2014

Elena Kagan and Sylvia Burwell: The Supreme Court justice got pretty salty on the new HHS nominee back in the day.

Elena Kagan and Sylvia Burwell: The Supreme Court justice got pretty salty on the new HHS nominee back in the day.By 

Today, President Obama is nominating former Office of Management and Budget director Sylvia Burwell to take Kathleen Sebelius’ newly-vacant position as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Politico’s story on Burwell highlights her résumé (she comes from a McKinsey–Gates Foundation–Robert Rubin–Larry Summers line of center-left technocracy) and the challenges her new job presents (Obamacare Obamacare Obamacare). And then there’s this...  http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/04/11/elena_kagan_and_sylvia_burwell_the_supreme_court_justice_got_pretty_salty.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content&mc_cid=67b8a19711&mc_eid=b27361148d 
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Disable Paste Options In Word 2010


Disable Paste Options In Word 2010

Accessed March 12, 2013

Oh my goodness do I ever find Microsoft Word annoying - if not insufferable... http://www.word-2010.com/disable-paste-options-in-word-2010/  I finally broke down and actually searched on the web for a solution to the lastest of so many annoying ways MS Word makes my life difficult by "helping me." #@!%$##!!!


By default, when you paste text that you have copied from elsewhere, the paste options toolbar appears. Small though it is, many people feel that this panel is an intrusion and that often it gets in the way of other text on the page… http://www.word-2010.com/disable-paste-options-in-word-2010/
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Friday, April 27, 2012

Westminster Maryland Online: WaPo’s Reliable Source Notoriously Late, Won’t Attribute - FishbowlDC:

Westminster Maryland Online: WaPo’s Reliable Source Notoriously Late, Won’t Att...: WaPo’s Reliable Source Notoriously Late, Won’t Attribute - FishbowlDC : ANALYSIS ,  FAIL WaPo’s  Reliable Source Notoriously Late, Won’t ...




"WaPo‘s flagship gossip column “The Reliable Source” isn’t exactly setting a good example these days. Sure, we know it’s loathsome to have to attribute to someone else.

But that’s the breaks and the way it goes if you want to be respected by your peers.



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Saturday, April 21, 2012

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Sarah Tressler: Houston Chronicle Society Writer By Day, Stripper By Night By Richard Connelly

Sarah Tressler: Houston Chronicle Society Writer By Day, Stripper By Night By Richard Connelly Mon., Mar. 26 2012


​It sounds like a bad rom-com book and movie, which no doubt its author hopes it will be -- society reporter for a big-city newspaper by day, stripper by night.
That's apparently the life being led by Sarah Tressler, who began writing society stuff for the Houston Chronicle after Douglas Britt left the paper to begin his own very odd double life.
Tressler blogsFacebooks and tweets about her life as an "angry stripper." It's all pretty much what you'd expect -- writing in the style that really, really wants to be described as "fearless" and "intelligent" and "funny" ... http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2012/03/houston_chronicle_stripper.php

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Friday, December 30, 2011

The best tech writing of 2011 | The Verge

The best tech writing of 2011 | The Verge:


"2011 brought ever more things to skim, sort, filter, and read, so it's no surprise that our collective Instapaper queues are overflowing.

Before you mark everything as read — you're not really going to get to those 3,219 unread articles no matter how hard you attack your New Year's resolutions — we've got a couple stories that you shouldn't miss. Here's a selection of writing about technology that stayed with us, whether it offered a particular insight into a startup, added a fresh take on endless social media pandering, or simply nailed some classic pound-the-pavement, behind-the-scenes reporting." http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/30/2667920/best-tech-writing-2011

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Friday, December 31, 2010

Jim Lee - Carroll County Times: History puts things in perspective

Jim Lee: History puts things in perspective

My note: Since I was just using - and reminiscing upon the days in which I depended on carbon paper; I particularly enjoyed this column by Carroll Times editor Jim Lee

Posted: Sunday, December 26, 2010 By Jim Lee

In an e-mail exchange this past week with columnist Carolyn Scott, she mentioned that I was probably too young to remember carbon paper.

Bless her.

Not only do I remember carbon paper, but I also remember cameras that used film, telephones that were attached to a cord, 45 records and a host of other items that were cutting edge in their day, but have since become virtually non-existent. And since the end of the year is typically a time when people compile lists, I thought I'd put together one of my own; one with an historical twist… http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/news/opinion/columnists/article_59e36a1a-0ed0-11e0-8b29-001cc4c03286.html

20101226 CCT editor Jim Lee History puts things in perspective

Journalists Lee Jim, History, Art Library Writers Writing,

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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Proofreading is a dying art....


   Man Kills Self Before Shooting Wife and Daughter 
 
   Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says 
 
      No crap, really? Ya think? 
 
 
Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers 
 
      Now that's taking things a bit far! 
  
    
  
Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over 
  
       What a guy! 
  
  
  
Miners Refuse to Work after Death 
  
No-good-for-nothing' lazy so-and-so's! 
  
  
  
Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant 
  
See if that works any better than a fair trial! 
  
  
  
War Dims Hope for Peace 
  
I can see where it might have that effect! 
  

  
If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile 
  
   Ya think?! 
  
  
  
Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures 
  
      Who would have thought! 
  
  
Enfield ( London ) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide  
  
They may be on to something! 
  
  
Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges 
  
      You mean there's something stronger than duct tape? 
   
  
Man Struck By Lightning:Faces Battery Charge 
  
     He probably IS the battery charge! 
  
  
  
New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group 
  
Weren't they fat enough?! 
  
   
  
Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft 
  
That's what he gets for eating those beans! 
  
  
Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
  
       Do they taste like chicken? 
  
Local  High School Dropouts Cut in Half 
  
       Chainsaw Massacre all over again! 
  
  
Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors 
  
       Boy, are they tall! 
  

 And the winner is.... 
  
Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead    
      Did I read that right? 
  
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