It’s got everything a poem should have: reference to a painting and Hamlet, a redhead, and death.
http://infertility.bellaonline.com/review/issues/spring2013/p014.html
Don’t worry about the “infertility” in the web address above. Everything’s a-okay here.
It’s me at my Tom Waits-y-est!
http://clutchingatstraws.wordpress.com/category/jason-braun/
In an attempt to redefine literacy for the cyborg future, I have annotated Benson Schliesser’s article “Court Approves Nortel’s Sale of IPv4 Addresses to Microsoft” that appeared at CircleID.com.
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As the editor in chief of Wired, Chris Anderson has championed 3D printing since the beginning. This book is a harbinger. This book is a prototype of your future life. This book was sent back from 2042 to the digital shelves of Amazon to stop other machines from killing your dreams.
Anderson compresses recent and future innovation as seen from 20,000 feet: “The past ten years have been about discovering new ways to create, invent, and work together on the Web. The next ten years will be about applying those lessons to the real world” (17).
Whittle, paint, write, repurpose, tinker, code, copy, manipulate and share–but whatever you do, do not stop.
Anderson, Chris. Makers: The New Industrial Revolution. New York: Crown Business, 2012. Print.
Lucy Ferriss tells it like it is. The Homophone checker is not perfect, but it is a start. Check it out at:
http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2013/04/02/homophone-phobic-hears-help/
“My friend, Jason Braun, has launched the world’s first free Homophone Checker app at Homophonecheck.com!”
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Recently, I’ve discovered two tools that have helped me introduce grammar concepts to students without having to dig through textbooks: Grammarly andHomophone Check.
http://criticalmargins.com/2013/03/27/homophone-check-and-grammarly-automating-grammar-instruction/
If you have a book of poems, short stories, or creative nonfiction that you think is newsworthy, get at me.
Jason Braun
314-614-3717
homophonecheck.com
For immediate release:
Check Yourself:
The World’s First Homophone Checker is Online–and It’s Free!
There, their, and they’re won’t be a problem if you use homophonecheck.com
Edwardsville, IL, March 25th: Jason Braun, who teaches English Composition at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) will officially release the world’s first online homophone checker. Homophonecheck.com is a free web app that allows writers to quickly proofread for errors that word-processing software typically skips over.
Writers copy text and paste it into the homophone checker. Then 40 of the most commonly confused homophones–words that sound the same but are spelled differently– are highlighted automatically. When writers move their curser over the highlighted homophones, a box pops up showing each possible word, its part of speech, and a grammatically correct example sentence.
Although Braun has published extensively, and is the Associate Editor of Sou’wester, a national literary magazine published through SIUE, he has dyslexia and has struggled with these homophones himself. While teaching English Composition, Braun found errors in students writing, distracting from the content of their papers. He complained to his colleagues for a while. They concurred. Then he analyzed the most frequent errors in student papers and conducted an informal survey of his colleagues to determine the most common homophone confusions in student work. Braun then made a list of these words, along with the parts of speech they belong to and an example sentence for each.
Braun bought homophonecheck.com from Godaddy.com. Then he called in Dan McKenzie, a computer programmer, bass player, and artist. Braun and McKenzie have collaborated on projects as diverse as Hip Hop albums and apps. Last year, they created an iPhone app that was the 144th most downloaded paid business app on iTunes. Braun and McKenzie worked on this project for over six months.
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