Plagiarism in east Texas
Plagiarism, that slowly dying concept that writers who make money off their words cling to, has reared its ugly head in Montgomery County, Texas, according to Jody Rosen, a music critic for Slate. In...
View ArticlePlagiarism fallout in Texas
The Texas press has picked up on the Bulletin plagiarism scandal, and some of the facts from the small paper’s side have emerged. The Houston Chronicle reported that the Bulletin’s publisher, Mike...
View ArticleCrying over spilled ink
A quick note today while things are fresh in my mind. We used to say that when a story was covered extensively by the media that a lot of ink was spilled on its account. Of course, this refers to the...
View ArticleElemental Stylism
Jonathan Yardley at the Washington Post wrote a little praise for Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style a couple of days ago, which drew some criticism from Jan Freeman at the Boston Globe and some...
View ArticleThought on the rhetorical and righteous mind
Alex Reid, after some discussion of the smaller-than-previously-thought role the conscious mind actually plays in human life, tells us that “teaching practices work fairly well for the most part, even...
View ArticleIn which the author summarizes the authority-based tweet debate and then...
Well, the issue of authority-based searching on Twitter is here to stay, even though Loic Le Meur, the guy who started all of this by asking for some sort of authority search feature on his blog, has...
View ArticleMervin Block
In today’s research, I came across the Web site for Mervin Block, a veteran television news writer who has written for all three major networks and for anchors like Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw and...
View ArticleNews scripts available online
A number of news stations across the country make their scripts available to the public. Here’s a list of some that I found. They might be handy to study later as we write our own scripts. NBC2 News in...
View ArticleNot since the Greeks...
We are in the middle of a literacy revolution, the like of which has not been since since the Greeks invented writing in the first place, says Standford writing and rhetoric professor Andrea Lunsford....
View ArticleBlogs and Web logs
John Naughton, on the difference between writing for Web and writing for print: The other difference between writing for print and writing for one’s blog is that there comes a moment with the print...
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