Category: Communication
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September 3, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. The brutal editing process is, unfortunately, necessary. For one example, editing identifies extra language. This makes the essay flow in a tight and smooth manner which your readers will appreciate. It also highlights your main idea by removing excess jargon. Proofreading ensures that …
December 18, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. During this pandemicky year, a friend of mine has taken to writing me a letter every day. She usually includes details about the workday, family responsibilities, emotions of being at home, etc. A few times, she has included an old postcard, written more …
December 4, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. The tricky nature of love never ceases to amaze me. George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch explores many complicated examples love. Today’s blog will focus on the relationship between Tertius Lydgate and Rosamond Vincy. Rosamond is Lydgate’s second love. Before moving to Middlemarch, he had …
December 13, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Some people in my family say “cut on the light” when they want the light on. This drives the younger generations crazy because, of course, it sounds like the opposite of what is meant. English is a very accommodating language, however, which can …
August 30, 2019 Thanks to Jennifer Taylor, a 2019 Harrison Middleton University Fellow in Ideas recipient, for today’s post. It feels like August has only just begun, but somehow it is drawing to a close suspiciously quickly. As a new teacher, this inevitably results in mixed emotions. I – and I believe I can safely …
June 28, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Letters often hold interest for me as a researcher and reader. They demonstrate humanity in ways that other writing cannot. People allow themselves a level of intimacy on paper that is not allowed in other areas of life. I love to write letters …
January 18, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Every Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I enjoy rereading some of Dr. King’s remarkable works. As a culture, we are still coming to terms with his life, his death, and his very beautiful words. Personally, his words resonate with me in any number …
January 11, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “Let’s listen with our eyes and not just our ears. That would be the ideal.” –Christine Sun Kim Early exposure to language seems to be the key in all languages. The key to what? Success in that language, or with language in general? …
November 16, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. In Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin has her protagonist, Genly Ai, travel to the distant planet Gethen which has no birds or flying insects. As a result, the communities there never even thought to attempt flight and their language has no …
October 19, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I often study the idea of Language. I am curious about how language comes to be meaningful, communicative and permanent. Yet, at the same time, language is so flexible and manipulative. This elasticity allows it to grow, change and expand to incorporate new …
