Online Course Lady: Writing Laboratory

Raise your hand if you have done this! (I have.)

Via Grammarly at Facebook:

I am not a fan of Grammarly software, but they do share some fun writing and spelling humor, as here:

This cartoon always makes me laugh because, by definition, as a writing teacher, I end up being a micromanager... and that is not a role I f...

I found this fun graphic at Twitter . And if you are wondering about the word lough, it's an Anglo-Irish word, which you might kno...

English is a language that is very prone to puns because of the large numbers of homophones, words that are spelled differently (and mean di...

The difference between English "cloths" and "clothes" is one that I see in student writing every single semester. Simila...

The name of the dinosaur Pterodactyl comes from ancient Greek, a language in which there are lots of words that start with "pt" (...

SPACE: The difference between a kid napping and a kidnapping.

I actually use the "I before E except after C" spelling rule when I am not sure about a word. It's a spelling rule that actual...

Poor guy: a spellcheck could have saved him from being a prefectionist. You can reading about the history of spelling checkers at Wikipedia ...

Because you can never have enough English spelling humor: a werewolf a wearwolf a warewolf aware wolf

A great comic by Jim Benton about the perils of cursive: demon? lemon? The wizard is not happy with the results! And here's an i...

Here is some more humor for the homophone files, and it's also a nice example of an antiproverb; you can read more about homophones an...

Here's a great item from MediocreComic :

For a hilarious post about using the apostrophe, check out The Oatmeal . Cartoon by Brian Crane

There is an article at Wikipedia about the phonics-based approach to learning to read. Cartoon by Dan Piraro