Welcome to “The Writing Brain”
“Writing — the art of communicating thoughts to the mind, through the eye — is the great invention of the world. Great in the astonishing range of analysis and combination which necessarily underlies...
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Why is English spelling so strange?
You may have had this experience before: you look at a word, and think to yourself “That can’t be how it’s spelled… is that right?” … that first R in February just looks wrong, sometimes. You may also...
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Is it true that we don’t look at every word when we’re reading? What are our...
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What makes an ‘A’ an ‘a’?
How are we able to identify what an object is, just by looking at it? If you were to describe to a young child what the letter ‘A’ looks like, you might talk about it having three lines like a...
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To double space or not to double space?
Do you put two spaces after each sentence? Feel free to comment below! I never have– but maybe I should? Read on to find out… An article recently appeared in the Washington Post with the title “One...
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Writing or Reading Letters Backwards Is Not a Sign of Dyslexia
Perhaps one of the most persistent misunderstandings of dyslexia is that one of its symptoms is perceiving letters as jumbled—especially as mirror-reversed, making letters like b/d and p/q especially...
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What is dyslexia? What causes it?
Dyslexia is surely one of the most recognized learning disabilities, yet also one of the most commonly misunderstood. One difficulty is simply that the term is used in different ways by different...
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Why do letters look the way they do?
What do the shapes on the left all have in common? What about those on the right? (Pictured, from top: Roman, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Devanagri scripts.) When you look at this image, do you know...
View ArticleSpecial guest on episode of “Dope Labs” podcast
I recently had the honor of being the guest expert on the latest episode of the Dope Labs podcast. The episode is called “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” — I talked to the hosts, Titi and Zakiya, about all...
View ArticleGuest expert on NPR: “Forum” on KQED
I recently had the pleasure of being a guest expert on “Forum”, hosted by Mina Kim on San Francisco’s NPR station KQED. You can listen to the recording of the broadcast right here. The episode was...
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