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Latest video: Analysis of the opening 18 lines of Chaucer's General Prologue! https://t.co/DuaaKxjnmj

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Need help with Chicago Manual of Style citations? Check out our complete Youtube playlist. Every video follows the latest edition (18th). https://t.co/6ElOVEvwC1

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Now that we've updated our settings to ensure that the Cloudflare issue does not persist it is taking some time for the changes to propagate across the web. Access is slowly coming back on line.

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Please note that our website is down for the moment. Our LMS provider explained that this is a Cloudflare issue and is working on solving it. Thanks for your patience.

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Check out our new course on diagramming sentences! https://t.co/fzML2tOG1g

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Please note that we've moved our website from our subdomain (new.natureofwriting) to our main domain (natureofwriting). Both links will continue to work, but you may need to clear your browser history (cookies) if you get a message about too many redirects.

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Working on a lesson on diagramming adverbial nouns. Almost done writing the text for our first course on diagramming! Recording video explanations soon.

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Finally finished a series of videos on Roland Barthes. Here is part 4 of 5. Now to add the subtitles -- my least favourite part. https://t.co/CZ4rbHouwe

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We added a new feature to the best independent writing guide: diagnostic tests! https://t.co/zT7BP4vzRt

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My blog post on the pros and cons of sentence diagramming. Ultimately it boils down to the question "how much grammar should we teach?" https://t.co/4p9JXgOHBC

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And, it's all fixed, thanks for my amazing university IT department.

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We're experiencing some technical issues with our website, but hope to be back up soon. Thanks for your patience.

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Check out our other Twitter account, for a new set of courses on classic literature. #Englit #classicliterature #homeschool https://t.co/TsNGCYlsDh

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This coming Saturday I'll be giving a free talk at an online creative writing conference. I'll be talking about minimalism, style, and children's literature! Tune in at 1 p.m. Eastern (ET). https://t.co/x1MWfcn5mR #stylesummit

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@UncannyOwl I did update, but haven't noticed problems. Mostly using Uncanny Groups and Uncanny Codes. Can you provide more details?

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George Herbert is one of the greatest devotional poets in the English language. Here is my video tutorial for his poem "The Pulley" (1633). https://t.co/2XVqP19SOu #engchat #Englishliterature #renaissance #Religious

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I too have huge privacy concerns about Grammarly. And I'm also sick and tired of their constant Youtube ads. And I don't want to sell this product to my students. https://t.co/6CT58ggAvQ

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Curious what's new with the 7th edition of the APA guidelines? Here's how to format your student essay. https://t.co/TXcmNEExYP #APA #writingtips