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  1. Kids ask me: How do I know if I have a good writing teacher? What does a good one look like? I owed them this: http://tinyurl.com/ylrwche 9:31 AM Dec 2nd from web
  2. Had good chat with colleagues about Tiger Woods case. Many of us seemed of two minds, which led me to write http://tinyurl.com/yhl69u8. 1:00 PM Dec 1st from web
  3. Which is why we have two words for the same effect: light & illuminate; jail & incarcerate; shit & defecate; convertible & rag top. 1066! 11:24 AM Nov 24th from web
  4. Over the centuries English became a blend of gritty Anglo-Saxon, upscale French, and abstract Latin and Greek. Which is why we now have.... 11:21 AM Nov 24th from web
  5. Anglo-Saxon survived among the common folk. Chaucer (1380) became the father of English poetry by expressing the best of both lexicons.... 11:20 AM Nov 24th from web
  6. RT@ggotsil: In the four centuries after the invasion of England in 1066, French became the privileged language of the court. To be cont... 11:18 AM Nov 24th from web
  7. Word confusion: "affect" vs. "effect." Example of how I use Clark's Wager to get this one right: http://tinyurl.com/yfrepse. Or flip coin. 11:13 AM Nov 24th from web
  8. Writing a book chapter about long words and short words in English, a legacy of 1066. Ran into "exsanguinate" on CSI episode: to bleed out. 8:34 AM Nov 24th from web
  9. @joelcobbs You are welcome. I'm delighted that the podcasts work for you. And cheers on your devotion to the craft. 8:10 AM Nov 19th from web
  10. This essay http://tinyurl.com/ylgvcz9 concerns the grammar of theme, the kind of language that gifts your stories and your readers a "lift." 8:08 AM Nov 19th from web
  11. The Glamour of Grammar essays (that did not make the cut) will be available, free of charge, at Poynter.org. Eager for feedback. 8:03 AM Nov 19th from web
  12. I am taking your advice and publishing online, at the rate of one per week, the essays on strategic language that did not make the book. 8:01 AM Nov 19th from web
  13. Check out this essay bookhttp://tinyurl.com/y9q9d7b on Writing Tools. And this one on the Glamour of Grammar: http://tinyurl.com/ylgvcz9. 7:59 AM Nov 19th from web
  14. @SPSatAMMkt I think I can play with the mayor on 12/19. Let's chat on the phone to sketch out the details. -- rpc 3:57 PM Nov 16th from web in reply to SPSatAMMkt
  15. Want to avoid logical fallacy of single cause, which I am prone to. Why did LHO kill JFK? What is cause of WWI? There are many, not one. 11:10 AM Nov 12th from web
  16. RT@RonSupportsYou: Loyalty to terrorists may be half-truth. Maybe he's also an alienated, cowardly, frustrated quack who couldn't get laid. 10:49 AM Nov 12th from web
  17. Toughest of the five W's: Why. Why did Army shrink kill soldiers? Public wants THE reason; truth will be messier. Our job? To own the mess. 3:59 PM Nov 11th from web
  18. How 'bout graffiti as precursor of Tweets? "Nietzsche is pietsche/But Sartre is smartre." "Old soldiers never die -- just the young ones." 10:10 AM Nov 9th from web
  19. One evaluation of the general quality of writing on Twitter: "140 Characters in Search of an Author." Who are the best writers here? 8:47 AM Nov 9th from web
  20. Just shipped 11th revision of manuscript of The Glamour of Grammar to my editor. 100 original chapters, cut to 50. What to do with the rest? 5:19 PM Nov 1st from web
  • Name Roy Peter Clark
  • Location St. Petersburg, Florida
  • Bio Taught writing at Poynter since 1977. Author of the book Writing Tools.
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