Sunday, August 28, 2011



This is just the trailer to the movie Revenge of the Nerds.  The whole movie is build on the premise that a bunch of nerds get tired of being bullied and decide to fight back against the status quo and the jokes.  The relationship  between the jokes and the nerds is perhaps the most culturally iconic discourse depicting these two groups in today's society.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

rules of a writer


·      Never start a sentence with “because”
o   Seems like a fair enough rule.  By starting with “because” you are continuing a statement from before.  It is generally better to combine the sentence with the previous one to create a run-on sentence then to start a sentence with “because”.
·      Try not to have to many run-on sentences
o   For the most part I agree with this rule.  There are definitely times when run-on sentences are needed (see above), having run-on sentence after run-on sentence is never a good idea.  Shorter sentences make it easier for a reader to digest then a lot of run-on sentences. 
·      Do not have multiple sentences in a row start with the same word
o   While I’m not sure this is technically a rule, I try to follow it whenever I can.  If multiple sentences in a row start with the same word, it starts to sound more like bullet point presentation then a fluid paper.