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Submitted by Bethanne on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 5:26pm A Conversation with Deborah Tannen
Some things seem so obvious, yet until someone actually does the research and quantifies data, they can't be proven. Deborah Tannen's "You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation" came before the whole "Mars and Venus" thing -- Tannen, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University, was the first to demonstrate to the general public that something we all instinctively knew -- the men and women communicate differently -- can be broken down into certain kinds of linguistic constructions and behaviors. For example: When a woman presents a problem, she is not asking for solutions; she is looking for support.
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Submitted by Bethanne on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 1:02pm Giveaway: Women Writers, Twitter Friends
How can you resist this giveaway? Not only are you going to receive four fantastic reads -- you're going to be supporting four fantastic women writers. What do they have in common? Well, each of them has come down from New York City to be interviewed on The Book Studio (you'll see the finished clips with Hyatt Bass and Amy Sohn below; our interviews with Kaylie Jones and Julie Klam will air soon). But there's something else, too...
Each of these women writers is someone I got to know on Twitter. I knew their work already, and had read books by Jones and Sohn, but I hadn't interviewed any of them. When I joined the social media site back in February, I began using it to reach out to the usual suspects: People in publishing and...authors! I was surprised and delighted to see how many authors were already "Twitterate."
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