How Many Spaces After A Period?

Posted April 26th, 2010 by admin and filed in Uncategorized
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Are two spaces after a period an antiquated throwback to the days of typewriters? Here’s what Grammar Girl has to say.

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/spaces-period-end-of-sentence.aspx

Dennis Baron at the Next IPRH Digital Literacies Group Meeting

Posted February 24th, 2010 by admin and filed in Uncategorized
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We’re pleased to announce that Professor Dennis Baron, from the Department of English, will speak at our next digital literacies meeting: Tuesday, March 2 from 5-7.

His presentation is titled “Should Everyone Write? Democracy and the Digital Revolution.”

Readings are from his 2009 A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution, published by Oxford University Press.

Chapter 9, Everyone’s An Author

Chapter 11, The Dark Side of the Web

You might also like to explore Dennis’s blog, The Web of Language.

Links to readings are available here.

The meeting will take place in room 107a English and a light dinner will be served. Hope you all can make it!