Tabs on Writing

Most schoolchildren can tell you that Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg invented the printing press around the year 1439, thus opening the world to the wonder of books. Thereafter, monks in monasteries no longer had to make copy after copy of written works by hand. Over 570 years later, another Gutenberg, Baron Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, was stripped [...]

Years ago in the “Dick and Jane” era, a well-known education book called “Why Johnny Can’t Read” awoke the populace to the basics of phonics. The question in 2011 is why can’t the youth of today write well. The  Wall Street Journal has a feature story today entitled “Students Struggle for Words.” The sad news is [...]

To denote a person who is the object or beneficiary of the act specified by the verb, we add “ee” as a suffix. According to Dictionary.com a person or thing that does what is expressed by the verb has “or” as its suffix. Simple examples include: the employer offers the job vs. the employee who is hired, the addressor of an e-mail [...]