Wordle – have I gone dislexic? Has my spell-checker given up through exhaustion? No Wordle is a strange little online application written by an IBM programmer, but made available free to anyone who wants to try it. It takes text which you can paste in and analyses it for repeated words, and then provides a [...]
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http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/comment/story/0,,2161629,00.html Prof Jonathan Wolff, head of philosophy at University College London, wrote in a column in the Guardian last year asking why he found academic writing “artless, contorted prose” and the effort of “blinking his way through” this writing “so often a chore and so rarely a joy”. His rather damning introduction leads him into [...]
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