A Link to An Article on How to Improve Your Vocabulary

I stumbled across an article I thought others might find interesting.  Is is titled Marzano's Six Steps to Effective Vocabulary Instruction. The focus of the article is on helping students learn subject-specific academic vocabulary, but I think it illustrates techniques useful in broader contexts.  I particularly like the way it highlights features of Visual Thesaurus, a product I have found to be very helpful to my own writing efforts.

A Link To An Article on Phrasing

Here is a link to an interesting article by Michael Lydon entitled The Art Of Phrasing.   It delves into the grammar surrounding phrases and clauses, and I found his points quite insightful and easy to understand.  I hope others derive similar benefit from this article. 

An Interesting Article on Using Planin Language

I stumbled across an article entitled Garner On Plain Language which I thought people might be interested in. Here is the link : http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/dictionary/1988/