21. Links Strategies for avoiding and finding common writing mistakes Interesting sitefor the study of words unusual words, word origins, and word play http://www.bcc.ctc.edu/writinglab/Links.html

Skip to main content Grammar FAQs Lab Info Virtual Tutor ... Reading Lab Useful Links for Writers an annotated list (Per our guidelines, we do not provide advertising for services. Please do not send us requests to install direct links to commercial websites.) Purdue University Writing Lab Handouts The nation's most ambitious writing lab has dozens of handouts and recources for writing students and teachers http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index.html i-Tools Online dictionaries, translators, thesauruses and much more http://www.iTools.com Grambo The Rambo of the grammar world takes you through a mock test and lists of grammar explanations. http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/~russial/grammar/grambo.html Editing Tips Strategies for avoiding and finding common writing mistakes http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/editing.html The English Language and Learning Review Various tips and secrets, mostly geared to ESL learners, from a rebel English-teaching organization http://www.geth.demon.co.uk/eg.html

22. Play With Language -- About Creative Writing For Teens words use and creative language are what make your writing sing. play WithLanguage Poetic Devices, Figures of Speech, word Use http://teenwriting.about.com/od/creativelanguage/

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23. Topic Index Of Articles -- Creative Writing For Teens Grammar Help Punctuation word play Things to Think About Interviews andAuthor This can make it hard to know which word to use in your writing, http://teenwriting.about.com/library/weekly/bltopicindex.htm

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24. Live Writing By Heart: Journal Writing And Creative Word-Play Joannah L. Merriman, MA, Workshop Leader. Live writing By Heart Journal writingand Creative wordplay. Whether you re a writer or just someone who loves http://greyrock.colostate.edu/2002/merriman_workshop.cfm

Joannah L. Merriman, M.A., Workshop Leader Live Writing By Heart: Journal Writing and Creative Word-Play Whether you're a writer or "just" someone who loves to write and wants to do more, the practice of journal-keeping will expand your writing pathways and allow creative word play without judgment. A journal can become the garden in which you plant thoughts, ideas, and memories, a place where your future polished writing pieces can take root and grow. In this workshop we will explore some myths about journal writing, offer suggestions for a safe and satisfying writing practice, as well as hints and specific exercisesquick and simpleto get you started or to expand your journal-keeping experience. Join us! Explore the possibilities which come from playing in your own word garden. Email: jetlost@lamar.acns.colostate.edu Enrollment Limit: No Limit About this Site This Year's Greyrock Institute Archives

25. Writers Resources Style Guides writing, words, reference sources, online writing experts, word play and bookson writing. word Wizard List of fiction writers and word resources. http://www.ability.org.uk/writers_resources_style_guides.html

"see the ability, not the disability" You to can help support the Ability Project by: Our Aims ... Z Writers Resources Style Guides Acronym Finder - Searchable database of 80,000+ acronyms and meanings. Covers: common acronyms, computers, technology, government, telecommunications, and military acronyms. Alan Cooper's All About Homonyms - The raw material for puns. alt.usage.english FAQ - The alt.usage.english FAQ in HTML format. American English - The UK Web Library American/British translation. Notes on American English. AmeriSpeak - Expressions of our American ancestors. Andy's Anagram Solver - Multilingual anagrams in English, French, and Dutch. A.Word.A.Day Home Page - The music and magic of words. This is the Web site for the mailing list A.Word.A.Day (AWAD), which sends a vocabulary word and its definition to the subscribers every day. Basic Prose Style and Mechanics - By Craig Waddell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Designed to introduce you to, or remind you of, the basic principles of prose style and mechanics. The Book of Cliches - A compilation of common phrases, euphemisms, and rationales for times of trouble.

26. WORD PLAY sound on sound magazine, december 2000. writing the words to songs is oftenthought of as a process word play. Understanding And writing Lyrics Part 1 http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec00/articles/lyric.asp

WORD PLAY : December 2000 Sound On Sound Current Issue News Subscribers Shop Readers Ads People Technique Reviews Music Business Links Competition SoundBank Sound Advice Forum SOS SOUND ADVICE Tips GLOSSARY: Tech Terms explained Learn Music Production Study Online with Berklee College of Music WORD PLAY Understanding And Writing Lyrics: Part 1 Published in SOS December 2000 Printer friendly version Technique : Miscellaneous UNDERSTANDING AND WRITING LYRICS: PART 1 Writing the words to songs is often thought of as a process of pure intuition, but there's a lot more to it than that. In the first part of a new series, Sam Inglis suggests an alternative way of going about it. Everyone has their own experiences, beliefs and emotions, and lyric writing often is In this series, I'll be trying to explore some of the things you can do with the words to pop songs. There'll never be complete agreement about which lyrics are good or bad, and everyone probably has different opinions on the matter, so I'll be concentrating on ways in which you can find your own voice by learning from the lyrics that you like, whichever they are. I hope that the ideas I'll be setting out, many of which are derived from poetry theory, will help us to understand the different ways in which lyrics can function, in order that we can analyse the ones we like and discover what makes them work for us. My aim is that this will also demonstrate the often under-explored range of lyrical possibilities that is open to us, and introduce some new ideas for those who feel they are stuck in a rut.

27. WORD PLAY word play. Understanding And writing Lyrics Part 2 Modes. Published in SOSJanuary 2001 Printer friendly version Printer friendly version http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan01/articles/lyric.asp

WORD PLAY : January 2001 Sound On Sound Current Issue News Subscribers Shop Readers Ads People Technique Reviews Music Business Links Competition SoundBank Sound Advice Forum SOS SOUND ADVICE Tips GLOSSARY: Tech Terms explained Learn Music Production Study Online with Berklee College of Music WORD PLAY Understanding And Writing Lyrics: Part 2 Modes Published in SOS January 2001 Printer friendly version Technique : Miscellaneous Whenever we hear or read song lyrics, we are hearing the voice of a person, whether that voice be the songwriter's own, exploring his or her own emotions and feelings, or someone else's. The second part of Sam Inglis ' series explains how you can write for different voices to put across different messages. In last month's outline of a possible approach to lyric writing, I mentioned that at some stage you will be faced with the need to make certain general decisions about the words to each song. These decisions can be, and often are, made unknowingly or unconsciously, but they are still an essential part of the songwriting process. It's perfectly possible to write a brilliant pop lyric without ever being aware that you're making these decisions, but that doesn't mean they're any less important, nor that there's nothing to gain by making the effort to understand them. Poetry theory describes a large number of modes and variations upon them, but for our purposes three will be adequate for the vast majority of all pop lyrics: the lyric mode, the dramatic mode, and the narrative mode. A poem or song lyric is in the lyric mode if its primary purpose is to express the emotions of the narrator, and to bring about a particular emotional response in the listener. Poems in lyric mode are often designed to be sung, so it is no accident that the word 'lyric' in pop music is derived directly from this mode. As we shall see, however, not all pop lyrics are written in the lyric mode and, of the other modes which are relevant to songwriting, by far the most important are the dramatic mode and the narrative mode. A verse belongs to the dramatic mode if it forms a speech or address by the narrator to someone or something in particular, while a narrative verse is one that tells a story.

28. Language word play (click on a word and watch it play ) writing Den many readingand writing activities for the Junior and Intermediate student. http://www.linktolearning.com/language.htm

Language Home [ Language ] Math Arts Science and Technology Social Studies ... Teachers Quick Links On-line Books and Stories Authors Book Awards References ... Writing Reading Skill Development Learn to Read at Starfall Between the Lions: Games (primary) Look Out Below (make small words from the letters of a big word) Word Play (click on a word and watch it "play") Pounce (pounce on the word that matches the sound) A.B.Cow (finding the missing letters in the alphabet) Alphabet Soup (find the mixed up word floating in the soup) Flood! (the library has flooded and books need to be grouped together) Gawain's Word (word blends) Chicken Stacker (vowel sounds) Fuzzy Lions Ears (starting sounds of words) Game Goo 13 interactive games covering a range of skills from letter recognitions to antonyms/synonyms (Primary) Digby Mole's Word Activities Matching, Rhymes, First Letters (uses Shockwave) (Primary) Story Bear - 3 interactive stories (uses Shockwave) (Primary) Kidport Select your grade and then click on the Language Arts button. This site uses the Shockwave plugin. (Primary) Words and Pictures These games and activities will make learning phonics fun. Produced by BBC Education.

29. Word Games Source Code Archive I d like to suggest that people writing new word games write them in standardportable If you are just looking for games to play, check out the software http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/archive.html

WORD GAMES SOURCE CODE ARCHIVE This is a resource of the wordgame-programmers@egroups.com mailing list. Click to subscribe to wordgame-programmers A Programmer's guide to writing Word Games by Graham Toal. Skip straight ahead to the Archive Some years ago I wrote a Scrabble program for the Acorn Archimedes. There was one paper I found at the time to guide me, but really there was a great lack of any source material for people who wanted to write word games. Since then, I found a few like-minded folks on an internet mailing list called wordgame-programmers@egroups.com (previously @onelist.com and before that @mit.edu. The list manager is still with MIT). This site is going to be a resource for the folks on that mailing list, and for anyone else about to write a word game and looking for source code to help them. I'm a firm believer that most programers learn algorithms best not from books but from looking at other programmers' code. As well as document what has been written already and released to the public, I want this site to also document the traditional word games that people play, as a resource for people wanting to try their hand at writing a new computer game. This is why I've teamed up with Steffan O'Sullivan to expand his excellent "Letter by letter word games" PLEASE NOTE these sources are for academic use only, in learning more about how to solve lexical problems. These are not games you can download and play. Mostly the sources are for Unix, but in any case, there are no binaries here. One of the specific research areas I'd like to see explored using this code is how to make games more enjoyable by making them play as much like a human as possible, ie by manipulation of skill level and vocabulary so that a game could convincingly imitate a human in a modified Turing test. Currently too many games just play the best possible play, and discourage the human opponent; or they are naively dumbed down so it is obvious that your computer opponent is 'throwing the match'.

30. Writing In The Classroom word play should never end. ALL writers young, old, new, experienced, enthusiastic,lazy, Don t announce writing ahead of time. Go back to word play. http://www.pampetty.com/writing.htm

Teaching Writers Pam Petty Western Kentucky University Division of Literacy Handouts/Activities Guides On-Line Resources Books that Facilitate Writing Background Reading for Creative Writing The following quotes and ideas are taken from: Frank, M. (1995). If you're trying to teach kids how to write . . . you've gotta have this book. Nashville: Incentive Publications. The focus should not be on teaching writing, it should be on teaching people to be writers. "Literature is the best stimulator for writing that I know. Make it a point to saturate your students with literature - all kinds - all the time" (p. 76). Writing ISN'T taught by saying, "Write ...," and then scoring what people already know how to do. It IS taught by offering challenging directions, presenting patterns, and providing endless examples that open doors to original expression (p. 74). "Writing" is not synonymous with "stories" or "essays" or "themes." There are dozens of kinds of literature and writing forms - some long, some very short, some simple, some complex - which people should hear, read, and which they CAN write. Writers (of any age) must be able to connect their writing to their real lives, real concerns, and real feelings. Writing is about COMMUNICATING. The writing process becomes relevant when people are allowed the choice to write about things in their own lives and experiential backgrounds. They need the freedom to let their voices be heard.

31. Creative Writng Creative writing Sample Begin brainstorming and experimenting with at least Students will participate in group activities involving wordplay and then http://www.pampetty.com/creativewriting.htm

EDUCATION TPTE595 Creativity Segment, Summer 2000 MODULE 4: CREATIVE WRITING Instructor: Pam Petty Contact Information: http://www.pampetty.com (homepage) pampetty@iwon.com (use this from Monday, June 12 through June 19, 2000) pam@pampetty.com (use prior to and after June 12 - June 19, 2000) local telephone number: 865-521-5000 home number: 615-735-9198 Dates and hours: June 12 - June 19, 2000, 9:00 am - 11:30 am Place: South Doyle Middle School Course purpose and objectives: The purpose of this course is to introduce you to methods that help students express themselves through creative writing. Much emphasis is placed on the enjoyment and pleasure of writing creatively. In-class discussions will include understanding the basic nature of putting words on paper to express thoughts, how to motivate students to want to write, and ways make writing more "real world" and less an academic enemy. A major objective of this course will be to help future educators see themselves as creative writers so that they might inspire their students to experiment with the beauty of the written word. Students should leave this course with a portfolio of writing samples and resources that will aid them in classroom writing experiences. Class format: Group collaborative activities, individual writing, presentations, modeling.

32. Links For Writers online writing experts, active writing, word play and books on writing. Purdue University s writing Resources and writing Labs on the Net provides http://www.protrainco.com/info/links/gramlink.htm

Online Resources for Writers Project Bartleby Grammars, Dictionaries, and Other Guides Style and Usage English as a Second Language Pages ... Lists of Writing Links Project Bartleby 1901 edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 1907 edition of Fowler's The King's English 1918 edition of The Elements of Style by William Strunk (no E. B. White) Go to Top of Page Grammars, Dictionaries, and Other Guides Professor Darling publishes an excellent online Guide to Grammar and Writing , complete with quizzes. He provides useful mini-courses on grammar and mechanics. Miss Grammar's cousin — the elderly, but vigorous, "Grammar" — resides there, too. Rutgers professor, Jack Lynch, publishes a handy Grammar and Style Notes , based on his classes. The List of Dictionaries provides links to many online dictionaries and word books, including dual-language works (English-German, for example) and non-English language books. will search for your word in its dictionary, thesaurus, and usage manual.

33. Head Word Play /head Here are some of my examples of constrained writing. What is that? The firstexample is a poem I wrote about William Shakespeare s play Much Ado About http://www.angelfire.com/wa/hurben/poems.html

34. Long A Vowels, Word Play, Literacy, Writing The words to go are hand and rap! Where do you want them to go? The word to gois bath! Where do you want it to go? The words to go are stack and knack! http://www.lauriesstories.com/Open/SampleSection/ShortaShow/CarolineaWords.htm

The words to go are hand and rap Where do you want them to go? The word to go is bath Where do you want it to go? The words to go are stack and knack Where do you want them to go? storyspamfree@lauriestories.com 1-800-ABC-4974 www.lauriestories.com

35. Word Play, Vocabulary, Creative Writing IB Newt in the Nature Nook asking, Why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why? Can you tell me why? © 2000 2004 Laurie Story Vela, MA Laurie s Stories, http://www.lauriesstories.com/meetme/ibnewt.htm

I.B. Newt in the Nature Nook asking, "Why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why?" Can you tell me why? storyspamfree@lauriestories.com 1-800-ABC-4974 www.lauriestories.com

36. The Big Idea :: An Online Community Of New Zealand's Creative Industries word play is for anyone interested in writing regardless of your level of experience.For more information or to register please call or email http://www.thebigidea.co.nz/modules.php?op=modload&name=Profdev&file=index&func=

37. Word Play Fun word play Fun. ALPHABENT Try writing a sentence in which successive letters ofthe alphabet are used. The sentence may begin with any alphabet letter as http://www.berkeleyprep.org/lower/fourth/writing/word_play_fun.htm

Word Play Fun ALPHABENT: Try writing a sentence in which successive letters of the alphabet are used. The sentence may begin with any alphabet letter as long as the letters are in succession. Example: A dam b egged C arol, " D on't e at f rankfurters!" ALLITERATION: Write a four to five word sentence using the same beginning letter. Example: Adam ate an apple and an artichoke. ACROSTIC: Write a rather long word such as SICKNESS down the left side of the paper then write the same word going up the right side of the paper. Try to create words that begin and end in the same letter as listed. Make the words as long as possible. Each letter counts as a point. Winner is the one with the most points. Here is an example using the above word. SassafraS,InvestigationS,CorrodE,KeeN, NotebooK, ElectroniC, etc. (A good lesson for using the dictionary!) COLLECTIONS: Make ongoing collections of words by writing them on 12x18 construction paper or oak tag. Introduce, then encourage children to add to them as the year progresses. Palindrome: words, phrases, or sentences that are spelled the same front wards and backwards such

38. Writing Try a writing and word Game. Try Wacky Web Tales. If you want more word gamesand activities, try word play or Vocabulary.com. Add to the Web. http://www.42explore.com/writing.htm

The Topic: Writing Easier - Writing is the act of putting letters, symbols, numbers, or words on paper or a computer screen. Writing is used to express and explain ideas. Harder - Writing is the expression of language in the form of letters, symbols, or words. The primary purpose of writing is communication. People have used many tools for writing including paint, pencils, pens, typewriters, and computers. The writing can be formed on the wall of a cave, a piece of paper, or a computer screen. The writing process includes prewriting, composing, revising, editing, and publishing. There are many kinds of writing such as expository, narrative, descriptive, imaginative, and persuasive. Literature is a type of writing that includes poetry, novels, plays, and short stories. Regardless of the language, writing has many rules including grammar, spelling, and punctuation. People use many tools to assist in their writing such as dictionaries and thesaurus.

39. 43 Folders | Poets, Dadaists, And Word Nerds: Rejoice If you enjoy playing with words or are attracted to writing as a process, you’ll also dig the many little tools for sliceand-dice word play, http://www.43folders.com/2005/07/poets_dadaists_.html

Home Archives About 43F Google Group ... atom Featured post Getting Things Done provides a smart framework for making progress on the projects that are important to you Our favorite notebook , made available through our friends at MoleskineUS (Your purchase supports 43 Folders.) 43F recommends The Long Winters at Cafe du Nord ; Saturday October 1st ( tix Upcoming The Sunset Cafe A2 Web Hosting (run Ruby on Rails for $4.95/month) Tinderbox by Eastgate (cool Mac desktop CMS) Backpack by (powerful but lightweight organization app) Share and enjoy This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License 43 Folders To revisit the page from which you printed this, please stop by document.write(window.location) Main Poets, dadaists, and word nerds: Rejoice Language Is A Virus If you enjoy playing with words or are attracted to writing as a process Language Is A Virus , a site full of fun tools and tricks as well as a bunch of interesting old articles from some notoriously wild Beat and Dada writers. If you like stuff like the home page , with tricks and ciphers that inspired the greats, like , and Exquisite Corpse Cut-Up Machine Madlib Poem Title-o-Matic Very fun site and a neat way to loosen yourself up creatively (as well as kill most of your morning). (N.B., Safari users: I got no love on the tool pages; try Firefox instead)

40. Insiders Guide To Lyric Writing With Bitesizelondon Rap Rap Lyric writing. word play. We then had a look at syllables, and incorporatingstrong and weak sounds that would give a verse a particular sound or feel. http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/home_feat_insiderguide_raplyricwriting3.asp

Home Restaurants Clubs Experiences / Gifts ... Hotels The Londoner's Guide To London Home Join News Front page National London Sport ... News archive Going Out Xmas parties Restaurants Clubs Guest lists ... London flowers What's On Out of London Events Diary Ticket shop Hospitality ... Competitions Party Guest lists Party Venue hire Hen Nights ... Experiences / Gifts Site Tools Login Register Bookmark Free newsletters ... Site search Rap Lyrics Intro Discussion Word play Prone crone Bite Size Website Insider guide Health Spas Pole Dancing Rap Lyrics Speed Dating ... Rap Lyric Writing Rap Lyric Writing Word play We then had a look at syllables, and incorporating strong and weak sounds that would give a verse a particular sound or feel. This was also relevant to writing consecutive lines, as matching syllable numbers in lines following one after the other was also a key skill. An interesting aside here was that rules could be, and often were, broken - it was possible to spit out some extra sounds in one line if you really wanted to, and conjunctions and prepositions are often discarded if need be. This culminated in each person being given a word, with which we had to finish the first line of a rhyme, and add 3 more rhyming lines of our own. My friend Alex and I worked together, as we were both unsure that our skills individually would be up for it. There was one snag, a restriction that would upset the majority of the world's rap lyric writers - we had to keep it clean. Alex, who'd just returned from Basra, found this particularly tough, as his lexicon was disproportionately packed with fruity delights that 2 months living with squaddies has developed.

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