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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Competence by Itself Is Deadly
Flannery O’Connor, a product of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop herself, had harsh or at least cautionary words about MFA programs. It’s not that O’Connor had a problem with training or competence, but her ideas in 1960 are perhaps more true … Continue reading
Posted in Student Skills
Tagged creative writing, Flannery O'Connor, training
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The Problems with Statistics
An article by Reuben Fischer-Baum points out that nobody can know, by looking at crime statistics in the U.S., exactly how many people are killed by the police each year. As surprising as that might seem, we especially do not … Continue reading
The Jimmy Fallon Approach to Ethos
Do you want to have credibility with your readers? That’s a major part of the tool traditionally called ethos. Jimmy Fallon, it turns out, is a sort of Ethos Savant, as this article in Forbes explains. One technique that Fallon … Continue reading
Posted in Advice
Tagged audience awareness, ethos
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The First “Horror-of-War” Movie?
Every generation, it seems, believes that the cinema of their time, in response to the war of their time, has invented the War-is-Hell movie. Before The Hurt Locker, before The Deer Hunter, before Rambo, before MASH, and before Catch 22, there was The Big Parade. Check … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary
Tagged cinema, Film, World War I
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Literary Images by the Bucket Full
The Folger Shakespeare Library has released thousands of literature-related images into the public domain. This will be more interesting to those looking at English and older works than to those in American and newer literature, but I did find a … Continue reading
Posted in Research
Tagged images, literature, public domain
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Throw Away Your Kindle!
In a recent study, Kindle readers were found to score lower in reading comprehension than people who read the same text in print. The study, presented in Italy at a conference last month and set to be published as a … Continue reading
Posted in Student Skills
Tagged comprehension, ereaders, Reading
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FREE-FREE-FREE***Microsoft Office***FREE-FREE-FREE
Doesn’t that look like spam? Amazingly, and because you are a student at JCCC, it is NOT spam. You, by virtue of your stellar student status, can get Microsoft Office for FREE-FREE-FREE. Here’s the skinny… Office 365 Student Advantage But … Continue reading
Posted in Student Skills
Tagged software
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Here’s a Cheery Little Look at the Future
If this doesn’t make you want to drop out of school and take up…I dunno, maybe jousting, then I’m not sure what will. Or maybe it ought to make you want to be an engineer or computer scientist.
Posted in Commentary
Tagged automation, jobs, robotics
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Are We Getting Stupider?
A cluster of studies suggest that average IQ has fallen in recent years after decades of steady increases. One explanation is the greater influence of youth culture and the decreased influence of older people on the young. Westerns have lost … Continue reading →