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//**Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambsk **//

//**he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. **//  ~George Seferis, Nobel Laureate

This wiki site is for students in my Honors English 4, CP English 4, and CP English 2 classes to collaborate on our units of study and create an online source of information for class work. This site will be a work in progress and will take time to develop but the interactive collaboration will be helpful with our class discussions.

Other Worthwhile Wiki Sites
Check out some of these actual wiki sites. They are for a variety of purposes, but the underlying concept is that many people are collaborating on the information.


 * [|Wiki Travel]
 * [|Wiki Books]
 * [|Bud The Teacher]
 * [|Studying Societies at JHK]
 * [|Wiki Quote]

Guidelines

 * Headings, like the one above, should be Heading 2
 * Use a horizontal line under big headings, like the one above, to create organization and style
 * Use **Bold** to make categories under bigger headings stand out
 * Use bullets to keep lists and links organized
 * Write your own summaries to everything you add to the pages including links, rss feeds, videos, etc.
 * Use appropriate grammar with all work on this wiki including discussions.
 * Use MLA citations when appropriate
 * This site is monitored at all times. Be class appropriate and do not tamper or alter any information.
 * Any person who inappropriately tampers with the information contained on this wiki will lose all credit and be subject to disciplinary action.

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//**After Deadline**//

January 27, 2009, 9:46 am

[|The Chitchat Patrol]
By [|Philip B. Corbett]//After Deadline// examines questions of grammar, usage and style encountered by writers and editors of //The Times.// //It is adapted from a weekly newsroom critique overseen by// [|//Philip B. Corbett//]//, the deputy news editor who is also in charge of The Times’s style manual.// This is a fun site to explore!



> We should take extra care in references to people with disabilities. Here’s The Times’s stylebook entry... > We walk a fine line with the prose in our news stories. We want to be literate and serious in tone,not chatty or colloquial.
 * [|Strong Verbs]- March 17, 2009 Strong verbs in the past tense.
 * [|Language and Disabilities]- January 6, 2009
 * [|Smoothing the Rough Spots]- December 16, 2008

> Two weeks ago, I discussed the rules for "restrictive" and "nonrestrictive" relative clauses. (Use "that" for restrictive clauses, providing necessary information; use "which" for nonrestrictive clauses, providing additional but not essential information.)
 * [|Simplify, Simplify]- December 9, 2008

> I frequently point out words that we mix up because they sound the same: principle/principal, reign/rein, etc... > A colleague pointed out some recent confusion in our use of "that" and "which" as relative pronouns, introducing descriptive clauses...
 * [|The Right Word]- December 2, 2008
 * [|That? Which? Or What?]- November 24, 2008