Walter Burek's Blog (2)

Last December I published a post that listed a score of sites that could help copywriters (and writers in other genres as well) improve their writing. Eight months later the list, while still helpful, is looking awfully skimpy. Because now along comes an email from… Continue

A recurring rant on my Inklings blog is my huffing about the "dumbing down of America" -- a downward spiral in our culture caused by an educational system that graduates students who can't solve simple math problems, can't write a decent sentence and who can't comprehend what they read unless it's written in 4th-grade English. This may sound like nothing more than intellectual snobbery, but the truth is that the corrosive effects of this “dumbing… Continue