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Links for Learners

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LINKS FOR LEARNERS Schoolhouse Rock offers fun videos to help you master tricky grammar issues. Here's one on prepositions. Schoolhouse Rock Preposition video: https://youtu.be/avC53wsZiJA?feature=shared Schoohouse Rock "Mr. Morton": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoZn12BEjyM For "Quick and Dirty Tips" on grammar, listen to Grammar Girl's podcasts: Grammar Girl: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl/ Use idioms – figurative or non-literal phrases and expressions – to spice up your communication practices! With a toolbox of these common idioms, you will end up writing and speaking with a range of different tones and colors in no time: https://www.thoughtco.com/common-english-idioms-3211646 https://medium.com/@igorkarasev/20-essential-english-idioms-for-esl-students-d0a92f915e88 Browse the Oxford English Dictionary's academic word list, full of words you probably [...]

Links for Learnersadmin2025-02-18T16:35:59-05:00

Tips for Public Speaking

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Tips for Public Speaking Connection, not perfection Beware the curse of knowledge Why do you care? Why should we? You are the message Keep things short Think conversation, not oration. Open strongly Reveal a purposeful enthusiasm Speak with your body Enunciate and project Don’t be afraid!

Tips for Public Speakingadmin2020-01-15T10:48:19-05:00

Book of the Month: Educated by Tara Westover (2018)

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Book of the Month: Educated by Tara Westover (2018) Critical Evaluation "This story, remarkable as it is, might be merely another entry in the subgenre of extreme American life, were it not for the uncommon perceptiveness of the person telling it. Westover examines her childhood with unsparing clarity, and, more startlingly, with curiosity and love, even for those who have seriously failed or wronged her. In part, this is a book about being a stranger in a strange land; Westover, adrift at university, can’t help but miss her mountain home. But her deeper subject is memory. Westover is careful to note [...]

Book of the Month: Educated by Tara Westover (2018)admin2020-05-12T12:52:12-04:00

Events for Writers–January 2020

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Events for Writers--January 2020 Writers Room January 7, 2020, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Writers receive constructive feedback at these sessions, during which participants read their work and members offer suggestions. Works read are usually less than 15 minutes long, so there is time to discuss a number of pieces during each session. Participants range from published authors to those looking to improve their skills. The group is led by Loretta and Fred Wish. Workshop: A Few Kind Words (Embracing the Power of Writing Unexpected Letters of Appreciation) January 11, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Imagine a world where “Kindness can be the norm, [...]

Events for Writers–January 2020admin2019-12-31T14:20:06-05:00

Soundtracks Talk

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Maria LoBiondo, Storyteller Soundtracks Talk: Scheherazade and tales from The Thousand and One Nights Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, 7:00pm Princeton Public Library The exotic tales in The Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights, caused a sensation when first translated for Western audiences—and captivated composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The collection inspired him to compose his famous work Scheherazade, conjuring the spellbinder whose tales of adventure, heartbreak, and romance beguiled a vengeful king into sparing her life and the lives of her imaginary kingdom’s women. Storyteller Maria LoBiondo, in a program designed to be of interest to adult audiences, will present [...]

Soundtracks Talkadmin2020-03-03T15:51:09-05:00

Word of the Week: farouche (fä-RŌŌSH)

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Word of the Week: farouche (fä-RŌŌSH) Definition (Adjective) Sullen, shy, and repellent in manner. In Context “In the wilder places, farouche-looking tribesmen, nomads and the very strange strangers she ran into were hailed with the cheerful confidence of a girl guide on an outing.” Moira Verscboyle, “Ireland to India,” The Irish Times, June 19, 1965.

Word of the Week: farouche (fä-RŌŌSH)admin2020-02-12T15:29:36-05:00

Helpful Links

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Helpful Links If you need inspiration or a little writing support, check out the links below. Poets and Writers Grammar Girl Purdue OWL The 92nd Street Y The Moth

Helpful Linksadmin2020-03-20T13:45:53-04:00

Events for Writers-December 2019

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Events for Writers-December 2019 Writers Room Tuesday, December 10, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Recurring Event (See all) Quiet Room – First Floor, 65 Witherspoon Street Princeton, NJ 08542 United States Writers receive constructive feedback at these sessions, during which participants read their work and members offer suggestions. Works read are usually less than 15 minutes long, so there is time to discuss a number of pieces during each session. While nonfiction has been a focus in the past, fiction writers are welcome. Participants range from published authors to those looking to improve their skills. The group is led by Loretta [...]

Events for Writers-December 2019admin2019-12-09T16:37:00-05:00

Lost and Found: The Moth in Princeton

admin2019-12-10T11:05:17-05:00

The Power of Stories: The Moth at Princeton by Andrea La Bella On November 22, 2019, members of Princeton Writes' Writing Space group gathered at the McCarter Theater to enjoy the Princeton Public library production of The Moth Mainstage: Lost and Found: The Moth in Princeton. In the lead up to this event, the McCarter Theater and the Princeton Public Library co-sponsored the Story Lounge, hosted by the No Dominion Theater Company. Community members were invited to tell a story, and two of the Princeton Writes Writing Space group, Andrea La Bella and Jeanne Jackson DeVoe, were chosen to share their [...]

Lost and Found: The Moth in Princetonadmin2019-12-10T11:05:17-05:00

ONE-ACT PLAY SUBMISSIONS WANTED

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ONE-ACT PLAY SUBMISSIONS WANTED The Lawrence Headquarters Branch of the Mercer County Library System will be hosting their annual PlayFest on Saturday, April 25, 2020. For the twelfth consecutive year, local directors will stage script-in-hand performances of one-act plays. This annual event is designed to showcase local original theater. Plays should be ten minutes in length, with a maximum of five actors. Playwrights should be of high school age or older and reside or work in the Delaware Valley. Submissions are limited to a maximum of two per playwright. Playwrights, amateur or professional, should submit their plays by Friday, January 10, [...]

ONE-ACT PLAY SUBMISSIONS WANTEDadmin2019-12-09T15:06:47-05:00

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