In this issue:

• Note from Judy
• Grammar, Usage, and Style - Redundancies
• Recommendations

  • Arts
  • Education
  • Grammar
  • Health
  • History
  • References
  • Science/Technology
  • Writing/Journalism
  • Judy's Photo Gallery

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NOTE FROM JUDY

I wanted to pass on this message to Webgrammar subscribers. It was sent to those on the Webgrammar Ning Social Networking site by Professor Harold Cordry:

Hello! I’m sending this note to a half-dozen people who joined http://Webgrammar.ning.com but, so far as I know, never appeared at the site or sought help with problems in grammar or usage.

Speaking for myself, I’m at webgrammar because I believe in doing whatever I can to help people and because I miss teaching---I’m a retired professor and a specialist in grammar and usage, subjects
I find endlessly fascinating. I want very much to help people learn about language. Please understand
that you’re welcome to pop in whenever you want to and ask questions.

[My computer is malfunctioning. I apologize for it. "Mal," by the way, is a Latin prefix meaning "bad."]

Cordially,
Harold
Harold Cordry, Ph.D.
"Cartoon Professor"

GRAMMAR, USAGE and STYLE - By Professor Harold V. Cordry

Redundancies

I’ve just received an email message from some entrepreneur offering me a"free gift" if I will click on something.

"Free gift" is redundant. A gift is by definition free. If the "gift" is not free, then it is not a gift.

Reminds me of a good word...purport -- to express or claim; a purported cure-all will purportedly cure whatever ails you. A fancier word for "cure-all" is "panacea."

If you look for these words in your dictionary, you may come upon the abbreviation q.v., for the Latin direction "quod vide," meaning "which see." Such directions in Latin always seem to me much more serious than something like "Check this out." So, if I were you, I’d do it.

GRAMMAR

COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISH:
PROFESSOR PAUL BRIANS' SITE
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

DAILY GRAMMAR
Check your grammar knowledge. Quizzes take four minutes.
http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.shtml

GUIDE TO GRAMMAR AND STYLE: JACK LYNCH
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/contents.html

MRS. BLUEZETTE'S GRAMMAR CORNER
"A PBS mind in an MTV world." Delightful, highly educational articles by a wonderful English language wizard (umm...wizette).
http://www.newsblues.com/grammar.htm

PROFESSOR CHARLES DARLING'S GRAMMAR SITE
Outstanding as a quick reference for your grammar questions.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

USINGENGLISH.COM
A large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools and resources for students, teachers, learners, and academics.
http://www.usingenglish.com/

WEB ENGLISH TEACHER
Beginning teachers can find guidance; experienced teachers can find inspiration.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/

REFERENCES

THE CORE HISTORICAL LITERATURE OF AGRICULTURE
CHLA is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between
the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century

Full- text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science,forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science.
http://chla.mannlib.cornell.edu/

FREEPATENTSONLINE
The FreePatentsOnline search engine is one of the most powerful, fastest and easiest patent search engines on the web.

Our search allows advanced search techniques such as word stemming, proximity searching, relevancy ranking and search term weighting to help you find exactly what you are looking for. Also lets you organize, annotate, and share documents, and Alerts let you instantly be notified when new documents of interest are published.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/

HOUSE ON THE WATER
http://tinyurl.com/l7ttsy

LIGATURES AND DIPTHONGS
Doctors use ligatures to connect tissue. Musicians use them to connect notes or musical phrases. A diphthong is a hard to describe sound made when pronouncing vowels. But every font with a standard Latin character set has yet another form of ligature and diphthong – what are they and how are they used correctly?
http://cli.gs/DePNsJ

MENUS COLLECTION
This collection represents menus, placemats, and other graphic materials from many of the Puget Sound area's most famous restaurants and dining facilities in the years between 1889 and 2003.

Restaurants in all styles and classes of trade are represented, from lunch counters to first class gourmet fare. Also included in the collection are travel-related menus from ships, railroads, and airplanes. Among the many historical menus in the collection are those from the Space Needle Restaurant, Ivar's Acres of Clams, the Dog House, and cruises aboard the Alaska and Pacific Steam Ship Lines
http://content.lib.washington.edu/menusweb/index.html

MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
http://www.msha.gov/

MINIATURE BOOKS COLLECTION: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS LIBRARIES
This digital collection grew out of a collection of children's books
that were donated in the 1930's

In order for a book to be considered a"miniature," it can be no taller than 4" (10 mm); our collection includes several items that are smaller than 1/4" (5 mm) and one item less than 1/8" (1 mm.) tall.

The collection contains items as varied a copy of Cicero from 1521, prayer books dating from the mid-1600's and artists’ books published this year. It also includes limited edition fine press works as well as modern mass-market publications.
http://tinyurl.com/yjussrv

RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT CENTER
FOR INTERNET ADDICTION OPENS
Facility in Washington state says it is the first in the country
http://cli.gs/vZG15r

SUMOBRAIN
Offers cross-collection searching, portfolios, alerts, and other collaboration
tools, as well as bulk PDF download capabilities. Caters to intellectual property professionals, attorneys, and users in the corporate world. While SumoBrain was conceived as a subscription service, the owners have decided to take the radical step of making SumoBrain completely free.
http://www.sumobrain.com/

VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS DATABASE
Database of Private Postsecondary Vocational Schools in all 50 states. It is
organized first by State, then by Training Occupation.
www.rwm.org/rwm/

EDUCATION

BACK TO SCHOOL: 10 TERRIFIC WEB APPS FOR TEACHERS
http://mashable.com/2009/09/07/web-apps-teachers/

DOING WHAT WORKS
Contains content based on the Department of Education's Institute of
Education Sciences' "What Works" clearinghouse.
http://dww.ed.gov/

GOOGLE LIT TRIPS
This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very
different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the
world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place.
http://googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/Home.html

HOW THE MUSHROOM GOT ITS SPOTS
http://cli.gs/9DhaBZ

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING STUDENTS
WITH LD OR ADHD
http://cli.gs/eavLjy

NO MORE MOLDY OLDIES
How can teachers help students push past boredom or disinterest and
find value in literary classics? In this lesson, students reflect on
their reading experiences and generate strategies to promote
understanding, appreciation and enjoyment.
http://cli.gs/qH6aXV

ARTS

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY - SMITHSONIAN
National Portrait Gallery
http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/feature/

FELIX MENDELSSOHN AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
In honor of the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth, the Library
highlights a series of rare holograph manuscripts along with a series of
essays on his life and work.
http://tinyurl.com/yl3cnpf

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 2009-2010 CONCERT SEASON
The Art of the Quartet, Premieres of Commissions by Caleb Burhans, Simon Shaheen and Ezequiel Viñao, and on LOCation at the Atlas Highlight the Season.

The Concerts from the Library of Congress series present a definitive look at the intimate art of the string quartet as the centerpiece of its 84th concert season, which offers 32 concerts, three film series, and 25 lectures by notable scholars, scientists and other experts.
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-148.html

39 AWE-INSPIRING PHOTOGRAPHS
BY PHILIPPE SAINTE-LAUDY
http://cli.gs/d7rmg8

HISTORY

LYDIA CABRERA PAPERS
Lydia Cabrera was one of the 20th century’s leading writers on Cuban folklore and an internationally known chronicler of Afro-Cuban culture and religion.

She studied art and religion in Paris, and in 1960 she left Cuba to live in
exile in the United States. Her extensive collection of papers is available
for research at the Cuban Heritage Collection.
http://merrick.library.miami.edu/cubanHeritage/chc0339/

HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
http://tinyurl.com/ks3pd6

HISTORY AND CULTURE OF BRAZIL
Edward A. Riedinger, Ph D. of Ohio State University, presents this Latin
American Library Collection
http://tinyurl.com/ylm5hek

INTO THE TENT
Billy Graham's historic public beginning Greater Los Angeles 1949
http://tinyurl.com/ygoy54h

NINETEENTH CENTURY DESIGNERS & ENGRAVERS OF TYPE
The Industrial Revolution is often seen as a black hole in the history of
typography. In that era the role of the punchcutter changed to that of a
largely uncredited factory worker. Records of who worked on individual
typefaces are sparse. Today it can seem as if there is practically no
information left about the designers of the nineteenth century. However...
http://cli.gs/4tUm1y

PHOEBE A. HEARST MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Delphi Collections Browser
http://pahma.berkeley.edu/delphi/

WE CHOOSE THE MOON
The excitement and promise of Apollo 11 can be relived via this extraordinary site created by AOL and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.

Visitors can make their way through the eleven stages of the mission, complete with audio transmissions from the flight, image galleries, additional video clips, and some tremendous visualizations of the craft
in flight.
http://wechoosethemoon.org/

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

BIOSCIENCENET (BEN)
BEN resources have been reviewed by the individual societies for standards of quality and accuracy. Although each BEN collaborator has unique review criteria, users find resources that are scientifically accurate and educationally sound. Due to the collaborative establishment of its metadata structure, the user can easily conduct productive interdisciplinary searches across the diverse biological sciences topics covered by the BEN Collaborators.
http://ehrweb03.aaas.org/portal/index.php

FARMERS, WARRIORS, BUILDERS: THE HIDDEN LIFE OF ANTS
http://www.mnh.si.edu/ants/

HOW DO I REPORT AN EARTHQUAKE (WASHINGTON STATE)
http://tinyurl.com/ak4qeq

SCIENCE CAREERS
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/

HEALTH

GENES, HEALTH AND SOCIETY
An interactive, web-based course that explores the rapidly evolving world
of genetics and genomics. Available for undergraduate credit, or it can be taken, free of charge, for professional/personal development.
http://www.bioedonline.org/courses/

GEOLOGY AND HUMAN HEALTH
Contains a variety of educational and supporting materials for faculty
teaching in the emerging field of geology and human health.

You will find links to internet resources, books, teaching activities, and a group email list, as well as posters, presentations and discussions from the spring 2004 workshop on Geology and Human Health.
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/health/

WRITING/JOURNALISM

15 TWITTER USERS SHAPING THE FUTURE OF PUBLISHING
Here are 15 Twitter users Maria Schneider turns to for news and insight
about how old school publishing is meeting its digital future.

By following these publishing innovators, you can follow — and even participate in — the industry’s conversations as they take place in
real-time.
http://mashable.com/2009/10/22/twitter-publishing/

CANADIAN PRINTER AND PUBLISHER
The initial phase of a larger project to digitize Canadian periodicals, this
site presents the first 20 years of the most significant Canadian trade
journal documenting the history of the printing and publishing industry.
http://link.library.utoronto.ca/cpp/

NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH
http://www.nanowrimo.org/

TYPEDIA: A SHARED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TYPEFACES
Typedia is a resource to classify, categorize, and connect typefaces.
http://typedia.com/