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You all know how popular and read is The Times The following extract are part of When Spell-Check Can’t Help and adapted from After Deadline, a weekly newsroom critique overseen by Philip B. Corbett, the deputy news editor who is also in charge of The Times’s style manual. Since most writers and bloggers encounter similar troubles, Cogitate thinks these observations might interest all readers, too. The goal, however, is not to chastise, but to point out recurring problems and suggest solutions. "When we stumble over sound-alike words, readers accuse us of turning our editing chores over to a computer program (and not a very sophisticated one). [...] Here’s a reminder from The Times’s style book: reason (n). Both because and why are built into the meaning of reason. So avoid the reason is because and the reason why. Write The reason is that the mayor got more votes and She found out the reason the mayor won. Usually a phrase like reason why the decision was made can be short

WestEd is a nonprofit research, development, and service agency and they're organizing a Webinar focused in English language learners. Agenda is scheduled to beging on October 8th and it's being shout out through SchoolMovingUP, which is a WestEd inicitive: The following are the webinar you will have the oportunity to attend: 1. English Learner Literacy Development through Formative Assessment of Oral Language by Alison Bailey and Margaret Heritage. 2. English Learners and the Language Arts by Pamela Spycher. 3. Doing What Works: Teaching Elementary-School English Learners by Nikola Filby. 4. What the Research Does—and Does Not—Say About Teaching English Language Learners by Claude Goldenberg. 5. Building Oral Language into Content Area Instruction (Research from CREATE) by Diane August. 6. Web Tour Taking Center Stage--Act II : Ensuring Success for Middle Grades English Learners by Carol Abbott and Jeanette Ganahl. 7. English Learners in Secondary Mathematics: Ri

All people are familiar with the universalizing of the English language. What not all people are familiar with, is the kind of English you should learn in order to communicate in the business world. English is English, some might be arguing, but we have American and Britain English and both are understandable and useful. However, is the American one that most travelers, businessman, and people is getting in touch with and learning it. Here we offer some useful phrases and idioms to talk about communication in the business field: get straight to the point = talk directly about something rather than going around the subject. "He got straight to the point in the meeting." beat around the bush = not talk directly about something. "Please don't beat around the bush." go round in circles = not get to the point or reach a conclusion. "We're going round in circles here. Perhaps we should go back to the beginning." kiss and tell = tell the newsp

David Armano writes for Business Week and discusses the problem marketers are confronted with today. He says "A consumer can be any number of things—sometimes all at once. And that fact is driving marketers, businesspeople, and brand managers nuts. So what do we do? I propose we become conversation architects." But what it means to be a "conversation architect"? Using social tools such as YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, Ning, or those still growing, we have to "market to each other", in other words, it's not enough to communicate but facilitate the flow of information in all ways. Armano has a blog where he wants to complete the "merits of conversation, transparency, authenticity, facilitation, participation", etc. He builds up the discourse on social networks and internal/external properties. These questions arose at the end. Want to chime in? Questions transcripted: 1. How will these initiatives relate to one another? 2. Will they be able