WRITING

NYT: [|A Battle Plan for Jetlag] Health, Writing (Process)

The Atlantic: [|The Blackberry--The Cigarette of this Century] Culture, Tech, Writing (comparison contrast)

NYT [|Draft]: [|Where Do Sentences Come From?] Writing

NYT: [|How to Write]--The art of writing can be reduced to a few simple rules. I share them with you now. Writing

NYT Draft: [|Zombie Nouns] [|Writer’s Diet test] Writing (about making academic writing more readable)

Slate: [|Armored and Dangerous]--The scariest innovation in the Aurora mass shooting isn’t guns or ammo. It’s SWAT gear. The Atlantic: [|How I Ended My Lifelong Love Affair With Guns] The Atlantic: [|The Geography of Gun Deaths] NYT: [|I Carried a Gun, and It Was Heavy] The Atlantic: [|The Philosophy of the Technology of the Gun]--Does the old rallying cry "Guns don't kill people. People kill people" hold up to philosophical scrutiny?

The Atlantic: [|The Dream Of Maximum Guns] [| Jason Alexander’s amazing gun rant]--The "Seinfeld" actor takes to Twitter to call for a ban on assault-style weapons Culture, Politics, Writing (persuasive arguments)

NYT: [|Let Chick-fil-A Fly Free] The Atlantic: [|In Defense of Eating at Chick-fil-A] Slate: [|Should you boycott Chick-fil-A?] Politics, Culture, Food, Writing (Persuasion)

NYT: Grammar: [|A Matter of Fashion] [|Draft] is a series about the art and craft of writing. language, writing

NYT: [|Semicolons--A Love Story][|Using Undictionaried Words] [|Draft] is a series about the art and craft of writing. Writing

NYT Draft: [|The Voice of the Storyteller] NYT Draft: [|The Sound of a Sentence] Writing

The Atlantic: [|White Bread book summary]--at the bottom of the article Culture, Writing (Summary)

The Atlantic: Let's Get Real: [|The Portion War Between Big Soda and NYC Is All About Profit] Slate: [|Fuzzy and Fizzy--The contested science behind Bloomberg's ban on large-sized sodas.] NYT: [|Evolution’s Sweet Tooth] Food, Health, Politics, Writing (Persuasion)

The Atlantic: [|Words Conservatives Hate] Politics, Culture, Writing (Definition)

[|What’s a Clown Question, Bro? A Guide.] Culture, communication, funny stuff, writing (definition)

The Atlantic: [|Welcome to America, Please Be On Time]: What Guide Books Tell Foreign Visitors to the U.S. Culture, Writing (Students write their own guide books)

NYT: [|Sentences Crisp, Sassy, Stirring] [|Draft] is a series about the art and craft of writing. Writing

[|15 Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent] from Mental Floss funny stuff, language, writing (for those students who ask why there isn't one word in English that means the same thing as ...)

Slate: [|Dodgy Boffins--What's wrong with science journalism in the U.K.?] Communication, Culture, Science, Writing (Be skeptical about writing you see on the internet)

The Atlantic: [|Fact-Checking Claims on the Wonders of Pomegranate Juice] Food, Business, Writing (See how ads twist the facts; be skeptical and learn how to fact check)

The Atlantic: [|Dumb Kids’ Class--The benefits of being underestimated by the nuns at St. Petronille’s] Culture, Funny Stuff, Writing (See how a personal experience is extrapolated on to come up with a lesson about life)

The Atlantic: [|In the Forests of the Night--Along the Bay of Bengal’s wild tidal basin, the scorpions and crocs can seem relatively harmless.] Culture, Writing (Narrative, lots of vocab, can also discuss whether there really was a tiger in camp)

[|The Cosmopolitan Condiment--An exploration of ketchup’s Chinese origins.] Culture, food, writing (common food item but a little research reveals an interesting story, could also be used for History of English paper.)

NYT: [|Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?] Mind, Writing(?) consider how the writer profiles the subjects

[|Machines Shouldn’t Grade Student Writing—Yet] --Standardized tests will finally ask good essay questions. But robot grading threatens that progress. Writing, Tech

NYT: [|The Pleasures and Perils of the Passive] [|Draft] is a series about the art and craft of writing. Writing

[|Readers' Revenge--Your Most Shameful Lie] Funny Stuff, Culture, Relationships, Writing (students can write anecdotes like these)

[|How Language Is Like Fashion--The Case of 'Hopefully'] [|The audacity of “hopefully”] The AP Stylebook makes a change -- and breaks our hearts Language, Writing [|Don’t kill the Oxford comma!] The university hands down a new edict about punctuation -- but the world's grammar nerds will never back down [|The Oxford Comma--Hart’s Rules] Language, Writing

[|Facing a Robo-Grader? Just Keep Obfuscating Mellifluously] Writing, Learning, Tech, Communication, Language

[|Color-coded text reveals the foreign origins of your words] language, writing (see how many words are of OE origin)

[|12 Golden Rules of Email Etiquette] writing business

[|Writing advice from C.S. Lewis was both adorable and concise] writing

[|What do you love online?] Writing: link to an example of a tap essay for the iphone

[|Robo-readers--the new teachers' helper in the U.S.] communication language tech writing (can consider how students in Taiwan would react to robo-graded essays compared to teacher graded essays)

[|The //Bully// Rating Controversy and the Effect of the F-Word on Teenage Eardrums] Funny Stuff culture writing-funny and satire writing

[|Expensive, Useless, Exploitative--Why we should celebrate the end of the Encyclopedia Britannica’s print edition.] Writing: stuff about using wikipedia and how it leads you to more investigation

[|How Not To Apologize--Rush Limbaugh’s statement on Sandra Fluke was a textbook example of what not to say.]

NYT: [|One Is the Quirkiest Number--The Freedom, and Perils, of Living Alone] (description, definition article, using examples)

[|Hearing Bilingual--How Babies Sort Out Language] (comparison contrast between monolingual and bilingual infants)

[|The loud American I swore I’d never be]--When I moved from Canada people mocked me for my "aboots." I promised I wouldn't change. I was wrong (look at this personal narrative and see how the author shows his growth)

[|What if there were rules for Science Journalism?]

[|Attention Must Be Paid--How the Internet is changing how people listen.] Interesting example of a definition paper.

[|No evidence that single-sex schools are better than coed] Lots of disagreement with the article in the comments section

[|The Question-Driven Life]: Interesting bio or profile example [|Unsavory Culinary Elitism]: Could have students learn who the people are and what their shows are like [|The Kids Are Not All Right]: students can examine how to make the support stronger for this article / look for logical fallacies like begging the question

[|Print vs. Online--The ways in which old-fashioned newspapers still trump online newspapers.]

[|Being Tony Plush--Finding redemption through Nyjer Morgan's gentleman alter ego.]

[|Slowpoke-How to be a faster writer.]

[|Great Character Descriptions from Science Fiction and Fantasy Books]

[|Questioning the Inca Paradox--] [|Did the civilization behind Machu Picchu really fail to develop a written language?]

[|The Rise of "Logical Punctuation".]: The period outside the quotation marks is //not// a copy error.