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Word of the week: offend

Photo Credit: CanStockPhoto under creative commons licence Where is the line between the right to free expression and the responsibility to respect others? There’s a debate going on now about whether media outlets should republish the cartoons from Charlie Hebdo that enraged three men in France enough to kill 25 people at the magazine and […]

Writing tip: Break complex ideas into manageable chunks

Photo: Building Blocks by Myfear on Flickr. Creative Commons licence. Periodically, my university student sons ask for writing advice for their assignments. Most recently, the elder asked for another word for “prelude” or “precursor.” What the Blond Raven wanted to do was describe how Algeria’s experience in the 1990s, when a number of religious groups […]