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How Important Are Communication Skills...REALLY?

I've been teaching communication skills both online and off since 2002 when I wrote my first study for homeschoolers called Say What You Mean for Teens!  From there, I created this website where I have written several homeschool speech communication materials, several studies for adults, and written hundreds of blog posts!  I've had several of my articles published by homeschool magazines like The Old Schoolhouse Magazine and Homeschooling Today and several of those articles have been picked up by Crosswalk .com and Dr Laura .com.  Art of Eloquence materials have been awarded "Homeschool Approved" by The Old Schoolhouse Magazine and are endorsed by the Home School Legal Defense Association which links to my materials from their site.   However, in the...

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Extra! Breaking Word News w/Dr. Word Wielder!

Extra!!  Extra!!  Breaking Word News!! This just in from the Rather Be Writing blog!  Dr. Word Wielder has a special word lesson for you over on Rather Be Writing today!  Dr. Word Wielder is the most articulate word teacher on the net.  Here are Dr. Word Wielder's Quick Quiz Questions: "The quandary can be quelled by calculating the qualifying answers and inserting them into a post in your que of blog entries. Then the readers shall reappear here to respond with a link to the web address wherein you have posted your response to these questions. Return again and read the Exam Explanations and Answers which I shall record on this page in a day or so. 1. Hectic or...

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Win some free advertising for your business/ministry on Grace Talk Soup!

Would you like some help promoting your business, mission, blog, website or cause?  Help us promote Grace Talk Soup and win some free air time advertising on the show!  Post our link to your newsletter, website, Yahoo groups, Facebook account, Twitter account or blog and then email us gts@artofeloquence.com to tell us where you did!  The one who promotes us the most that week will have his/her blog link, site URL, business or cause mentioned on the show! Don’t know what to post? Cut and paste this in! Tune in to the Grace Talk Soup Weekly Podcast featuring Lucy Linguist & Ethel the Editor, starring in “I LOVE LANGUAGE!” each Thursday morning 8am PST/11am EST where these two crazy compadres...

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Pride Goeth Before the Blog Gremlins

After taking quite the many days to get my new blog just exactly the way I wanted it, I was so proud of myself that I posted my naive exuberance here on Communication FUNdamentals to many congratulations and At-A-Gals!  Immediately following, I posted another few blog posts  that somehow, without provocation, caused most of my blog to enter the Witness Protection Program becoming invisible to the naked eye when viewed by those with Internet Explorer (IE). As many of you know, JoJo don’t know HTML so, if kicking my computer doesn’t fix the problem, I’m at a loss!  I turned to those more Technologically Savvy than I and was told the following: 1.    My habit of copying and pasting from...

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Your friendly neighborhood non techie...

is working on her blog.  Alert the media and keep your arms and legs inside the blog at all times! I was able to put Word Press on my site and my web designer linked it from Art of Eloquence.com's left navigation bar.  Now all I have to do is make this page look a bit more like the rest of the site. The bad news: unfortunately, in my mind, HTML means Hopeless Technological Misfit Looney.  The good news?  I can download a template!  The really bad news?  The directions to do so are written in TECHIE  TALK!  The really good news?  I can ask my web designer!  The MOST HORRIFIC NEWS: she tells me to download the thingamagigiie to...

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