Let Dr. Mike Zizzi teach you to uplift your world via truly *authentic* writing (and speaking! and listening!) We need more of YOUR voice (not AI's).
“Words Matter,” so get them right! I’ve dedicated my academic and professional life, along with much of my personal life, to studying, teaching, theorizing, and writing about the endless meanings, implications, and applications of the brief, common, and commonly mis-used expression, “words matter.” How? Why? To what effect? Making what possible? Causing what limitations? Overcoming…
Again and again on the Up-Wordz.com website/blog, you’ll find me urging you to “say it with authenticity.” We often take that word for granted, not even stopping to wonder or even ask, “What do you mean by authenticity“? Good question! Do you have authenticity in you? The founding principle of this whole site centers on…
Don’t let that knee jerk! I want to get an early start on demonstrating the lack of political side taking that I will demonstrate and also hope you will be able to emulate, when that would help you, which is often, in our present times of unprecedented (at least in the past century) divisiveness. For…
So let’s pull the blankets off our “politically correct pronouns” and examine the naked truth. For both clarity and validity, I will present this “truth” – as I will argue for it – aided by “truth’s” two often-absent handmaidens, explanation and support. Simply (and ignorantly) asserting that screwing up language is valid and even necessary…
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“Words Matter” — that’s my mantra for curing “pronoun madness.” Ironically, it’s the same (unexplained, unsupported, and unconvincing) mantra used/misused/abused by the shallow, sad, and see-through advocates of the very pronoun madness I wish to eradicate from our language, especially in public use. Note: Elsewhere in the Writing Lessons, section of this blog, I will…
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Hello Readers, soon to be “Writers-in-Movement” Welcome to my blog-style home for ideas (related to writing, rhetoric, speaking, listening, and more) that I know will piss off some people and please others to their soul. I’m starting a movement: “Not PC, GC.” That is, I want to put a dent in language-harming “political correctness” (PC),…