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Specialized Communications Curriculum Takes Flight

Stephanie Whetstone2014-07-17T18:10:18-04:00

This week, Princeton Writes held the inaugural workshop in a new 10-part series designed to explore the multiple ways in which Princeton's stories can be told in writing, addressing the challenges and opportunities presented by different media, genres, processes, and messaging considerations. First up was "Mastering Social Media," led by Dan Day, director of news and editorial services in Princeton's Office of Communications, and Eric Wilkens, social media coordinator and writer in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In a dynamic 90-minute session, Day and Wilkens brought their collective experience to bear on Facebook and Twitter, where connections [...]

Specialized Communications Curriculum Takes FlightStephanie Whetstone2014-07-17T18:10:18-04:00

The Troublesome Apostrophe

Stephanie Whetstone2020-01-14T14:28:36-05:00

The Troublesome Apostrophe In Everyday English: Getting to Grips with the Basics of the Language, Michelle Finlay writes, "Despite its diminutive size, the apostrophe has managed to create havoc in written English." Or, rather, we have created havoc with this punctuation mark, whose primary function is to denote possession, as in the "dog's paws" (not to be confused with the "dogs' paws" in the case of multiple dogs), or omission, as in the contractions "don't" and "it's." In response to this disorder, an Apostrophe Protection Society – believe it or not – was established in the United Kingdom in 2001, and [...]

The Troublesome ApostropheStephanie Whetstone2020-01-14T14:28:36-05:00

The Optimist’s Daughter (1972) by Eudora Welty

Stephanie Whetstone2014-07-01T12:00:28-04:00

Critical Assessment "Eudora Welty's novel, The Optimist's Daughter, which first appeared in The New Yorker of March 15, 1969, is a miracle of compression, the kind of book, small in scope but profound in its implications, that rewards a lifetime of work. Its style is at the service of a story that follows its nose with the instincts of a good hunting dog never losing the scent of its quarry. And its story has all those qualities peculiar to the finest short novels: a theme that vibrates with overtones, suspense and classical inevitability. . . . "Two kinds of people, two [...]

The Optimist’s Daughter (1972) by Eudora WeltyStephanie Whetstone2014-07-01T12:00:28-04:00

Meet Sharon Deng ’17, Videographer

Stephanie Whetstone2014-06-22T11:36:30-04:00

This is the third of a three-part series of profiles featuring undergraduates who have made a significant difference in the life of Princeton Writes in 2013-2014, its inaugural year. The profiles were prepared by Emily Reardon ’16. When asked what she loves most about writing, Sharon Deng described the purity of the written word. Of all the ways to preserve and communicate one’s message, she finds the narrative form to be the truest, contributing to her strong involvement in the writing community both at Princeton and at home. Sharon was raised in Wuhan, China, and attended the Wuhan Foreign Language School. It was [...]

Meet Sharon Deng ’17, VideographerStephanie Whetstone2014-06-22T11:36:30-04:00

Josh Ritter on Libraries

Stephanie Whetstone2020-01-14T14:29:22-05:00

Josh Ritter on Libraries At a time when many question the utility of libraries, musician and writer Josh Ritter offers a robust and beautifully expressed defense of their enduring value in the age of wikipedia.org and amazon.com. His words can be found, fittingly enough, in Know the Past, Find the Future, a collection of essays marking the centennial of the New York Public Library's Fifth Avenue flagship in 2011. Here is an excerpt: "There is the reading, of course. That is the given reason for going to a library. "But I think that there's another. I think that sometimes we go [...]

Josh Ritter on LibrariesStephanie Whetstone2020-01-14T14:29:22-05:00

The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London

Stephanie Whetstone2014-06-01T12:00:24-04:00

Critical Assessment "The key to London's effectiveness is to be found in his complete absorption in the world he evokes. The author is in and committed to his creations to a degree very nearly unparalleled in the composition of fiction. The resulting go-for-broke, event-intoxicated, headlong wild-Irish prose-fury completely overrides a great many stylistic lapses and crudities that would ordinarily cause readers to smile. . . . "He is an artist of violent action, exemplifying what the American poet Allen Tate meant when he said: 'I think of my poems as commentaries on those human situations from which there is no escape.' [...]

The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack LondonStephanie Whetstone2014-06-01T12:00:24-04:00

Meet Thomas Garcia ’16, Social Media Coordinator

Stephanie Whetstone2014-05-27T21:37:55-04:00

This is the second of a three-part series of profiles featuring undergraduates who have made a significant difference in the life of Princeton Writes in 2013-2014, its inaugural year. The profiles were prepared by Emily Reardon ’16. Thomas Garcia was raised in Pharr, Texas, which is located deep in the Rio Grande Valley, nestled along the Mexican border. With a large Hispanic population, English is primarily learned as a second language in Pharr. Greatly influenced by the environment of the southwestern city from which he hails, Thomas is looking to major in English, with a primary focus on education and helping students bridge [...]

Meet Thomas Garcia ’16, Social Media CoordinatorStephanie Whetstone2014-05-27T21:37:55-04:00

All Greek to Me

Stephanie Whetstone2020-01-14T14:30:08-05:00

All Greek to Me One of the great strengths – and joys – of English is its diverse linguistic origins and the abandon with which it incorporates words from other languages. As David Crystal puts it in The Story of English in 100 Words, "English is a vacuum-cleaner of a language," so much so that "several hundred languages have contributed to its lexical character." However, the problem with loanwords, as these borrowings are called, is that their meaning can be lost on those who do not know their language of origin. A classic example is "hoi polloi," a Greek term that [...]

All Greek to MeStephanie Whetstone2020-01-14T14:30:08-05:00

Meet Emily Reardon ’16, Undergraduate Fellow

Stephanie Whetstone2014-05-04T23:41:29-04:00

This is the first of a three-part series of profiles featuring undergraduates who have made a significant difference in the life of Princeton Writes in 2013-2014, its inaugural year. The profiles were prepared by Emily Reardon '16. Emily Reardon was raised in Little Silver, New Jersey, not more than 50 minutes east of Princeton, right along the Atlantic. While her life and travels, to this point, have not taken her far outside New Jersey and her small town, with their safety and sameness, she turned, at a young age, to creative writing. Through writing, she was able to journey around the [...]

Meet Emily Reardon ’16, Undergraduate FellowStephanie Whetstone2014-05-04T23:41:29-04:00

A Gesture Life (1999) by Chang-rae Lee

Stephanie Whetstone2014-05-01T12:00:00-04:00

Critical Assessment "Lee's portrayal of Hata is written in unfashionably decorous prose, a language so fine and poised that its carefully situated eruptions seem even more radical. (When the absence of simple courtesies can seem viscerally disturbing, you know you're in the hands of a virtuoso.) There are flourishes of language and lovely summaries of character that seem from time to time like the last lines of a torch song. Lee takes on history, war and peace, life and death, the class system, the ghosts of American progress, the family, aging and unresolved international war crimes. . . . His novel [...]

A Gesture Life (1999) by Chang-rae LeeStephanie Whetstone2014-05-01T12:00:00-04:00

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