Geoffrey Nunberg on Twitter
A linguist talks about Twitter (with a 140-character reduction)
Maureen Dowd, weaving, not linking
Maureen Dowd's cutting and pasting
The Elements of Style, one more time
"The Elements of Style may work best as a writer's talisman. That's the best explanation I can offer of the book's long-lived pseudo-sacred status."
I dream of Strunk and White
Sample sentences from a dream
More on Pullum, Strunk, White
A sampling of opinion on The Elements of Style
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An explntn
Hardly convincing (adverb adjective)
Pullum on Strunk and White on adjectives and adverbs
Pullum on Strunk and White
"Pullum's take on Strunk and White involves a significant degree of distortion and plain misreading."
Strunk and White and Seidel
Sentence revision
Why the pencil?
Link to a piece asking and answering the question
John Hope Franklin's ways of writing
Paper and pen, computer
Mongol No. 2 3/8
A pencil of the past
Vladimir Nabokov's index cards
Excerpts from Pnin, Pale Fire, and the Foreword to the screenplay of Lolita -- and two photos
Five sentences from Bleak House
An amazing passage from Dickens
Five pens
Parker T-Ball Jotter, red ballpoint, Faber-Castell Uni-Ball, Montblanc, Pelkan: for National Handwriting Day
Learning to write (Dickens)
A passage from Bleak House
Ellen Lupton on writing
"Some of my students seem to believe that just because they can't spell, their employers won't be able to, either."
"Writing in the Age of Distraction"
Cory Doctorow: "When you come to a factual matter that you could google in a matter of seconds, don't."
Let go my Hugo
21st-c copyright fight over Victor Hugo
How to improve writing (no. 23 in a series)
A sentence about Woody Allen
"Plagiarism free"
Irony-deficiency: "plagiairism free" dissertations for sale
Studs Terkel (1912–2008)
"'Curiosity never killed this cat' — that's what I'd like as my epitaph.”
USA Arts
Streaming shows from Channel 13
Invisible ink cigarette card
From the New York Public Library's Digital Gallery
Thinking with pens and pencils
Dutch psychologist Christof van Nimwegen has written a dissertation arguing that pens and pencils are crucial in the development of creativity and intelligence.
Details
Advice for college students on getting details of format right
Five bloggers blogging
Five people I like to read
Mac writing tools
The Unofficial Apple Weblog's survey of text-editors, word-processors, and utilities
How to improve writing (no. 22 in a series)
Good writing doesn't "flow."
Cereals in the hands of an angry blog
No. 21: analysis of sloppy Post cereal box design and copywriting