This blog post is about diacope, a Repetition Figure of Speech. It is part of a series on repetition. I share them as the English language has hundreds of literary…
Ira KoretskyJuly 6, 2022
Were you looking for THAT cat zoom filter to put into your favorite virual webinar platform such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, GoToMeeting, WebEx, etc.? Let me save you some time.…
Ira KoretskyFebruary 11, 2021
I recently read a light and fun article on our preoccupation with "liking." In "Like, Enough With The Liking Already," (Funny Times) author Laura Boggs paints a vivid picture of…
Ira KoretskyAugust 19, 2020
Last week, I wrote "Internship - Keep It this Summer - Big Idea #1," based on some of my students (I'm an adjunct at the University of Maryland1) asking me…
Ira KoretskyApril 15, 2020
One of my last semester's students (I'm an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland) asked me for advice about how to keep his internship, which looks like it is…
Ira KoretskyApril 8, 2020
I was on the Harvard Business Review (HBR) website reading an article on leadership. The fun and also illustrative image below first caught my eye. Then the article title grabbed…
Ira KoretskyJune 27, 2019
It's 8am. You just arrived at your conference. You make a bee-line for your necessary morning jolt of java. As you are stirring in your sugar, Jenna, next to you,…
Ira KoretskyJune 5, 2019
I’m often asked, "When it comes to deciding what story to tell, where do I start?” Powerful stories are those that touch people, that touch people with a personal experience…
Ira KoretskyNovember 5, 2018
When faced with the choice between waiting in line or leaving, here’s a tip that works most of the time, to start an email conversation with the conference speaker. The…
Ira KoretskyOctober 15, 2018