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Posts about writing, intended for college students and mature high school students; posts about learning English as a foreign language; occasional posts about translating from German to English.

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• Electronic Writing Tools

  Posted on Sunday August 31st, 2008 at 11:26 in blogging, full-screen, full-screen text editor, Macintosh, mind maps, mind-mapping, outliners, outlining, word processing, writing, writing tools

  Many people who write think that the only writing tool available for their computer is Word, but there are other word processors. More to the point, there are other kinds of writing tools to help you ...

• Misbehaving Metaphors and Similes

  Posted on Tuesday August 19th, 2008 at 21:28 in english, humor, metaphors, metaphors & similes, similes, writing

  I do not teach creative writing, and rarely do I discuss the use of metaphors and similes in the expository essays I correct. Maybe that is why I do not often see strange metaphors and similes in stud...

• What Ingredients Must an Essay Contain?

  Posted on Wednesday July 2nd, 2008 at 12:26 in College, essays, formal prose, high school, writing

  Sometimes I encounter students from other countries who are not familiar with the basic ingredients that every essay for high school, college, and graduate school must contain. This article is aimed a...