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	<title>Alfredo Deambrosi &#187; Writing</title>
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		<title>What Is an &#8220;Overseas Contingency Operation&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://deambrosi.edublogs.org/2009/04/01/what-is-an-overseas-contingency-operation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alfredo Deambrosi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[clarity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports that &#8220;&#8216;Global War On Terror&#8217; Is Given New Name.&#8221;  The White House uses &#8220;Overseas Contingency Operation.&#8221;
Assuming that the new term is more accurate, does the accuracy justify the obscurity?  Or is the new term a euphemism that, like many euphemisms, may be an attempt to deceive?
Years ago, Ronald Reagan avoided the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Obama Event &#8211; Two Very Different Stories</title>
		<link>http://deambrosi.edublogs.org/2009/01/23/one-obama-event-two-very-different-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alfredo Deambrosi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t remember ever seeing two news stories that cover one event so differently.
One story from CBS News portrays Obama as a friendly visitor, joking with reporters, having fun, interested in making relationships.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/01/22/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4748255.shtml
It is called, &#8220;Obama Pays Friendly Visit to White House Reporters.&#8221;
Another story from Politico, a site that I often suspect leans to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Zinsser on Writing and Profit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alfredo Deambrosi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love the irony in this quotation, which I found in William Zinsser&#8217;s essay &#8220;Writing in Your Job&#8221;:
Any institution that won’t take the trouble in its writing to be both clear and personal will lose friends, customers, and money. Let me put it another way for business executives: a shortfall will be experienced in anticipated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clearly Written Article Titles</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alfredo Deambrosi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I saw a newspaper headline that one can easily misinterpret.  The headline appears in a major West-coast newspaper that published the article today.
&#8220;Palin Smears Hurt McCain&#8221;
When I first saw this article, I thought, &#8220;Why is John McCain feeling hurt, and why is Sarah Palin smearing him?&#8221;  The four words for that kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Grammar and Improving Your Writing</title>
		<link>http://deambrosi.edublogs.org/2008/09/22/learning-grammar-can-help-your-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alfredo Deambrosi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As my students learn grammar, they often ask, how is this stuff supposed to help my writing? This week, as I teach parts of speech, I am planning to give some tips about how knowledge of the parts of speech can directly help one&#8217;s writing.
One area of help is parallelism.  Readers prefer sentences that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using a Word Processor to &#8220;Compute&#8221; Readability</title>
		<link>http://deambrosi.edublogs.org/2008/09/16/using-a-word-processor-to-compute-readability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alfredo Deambrosi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By running the Flesh-Kincaid Readability Test, Microsoft Word allows users to identify how readable their writing is.  Apparently, the Flesh-Kincaid Reading Grade Level uses a formula that is based on the average number of syllables in each word and the average length of the sentences.
When I learned about this feature, my first thought was [...]]]></description>
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