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I Just Want to Get My Gen-Ed Credits Out of the Way!
It kind of makes me crazy when my students say something about general education classes (like the ones I have spent my entire career trying to perfect) and “getting them out of the way.” For many people, classes like Composition … Continue reading
Posted in Real Life
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But That’s a Good Source, Right?
You’re working on a research paper, doing your best to assemble a slate of outstanding sources. You know that Wikipedia is suspect and that Gary’s Awesome Web Page should remain in Gary’s basement. You know that good sources are out there. How about … Continue reading
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Is Your Paper Running Late?
Yes, I made a couple of simple alterations to this Dilbert comic strip, but it seemed appropriate. As the semester winds down and you wonder if your final paper will come in on time, think of this.
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock–The Movie
Laura Scrivano has created a film version of T.S. Eliot’s poem, drawing on the talents of actor Daniel Henshall. Somehow, I don’t think this is at all what Eliot had in mind. Somehow, I don’t care. A LOVESONG from The … Continue reading
Posted in Literature
Tagged poetry, T.S. Eliot
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Fighting Fake News: A Core Academic Value
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that fighting against fake news is a core academic value. This probably doesn’t surprise anyone who read my title, but stick with me for a moment. Fake news is … Continue reading
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Mis-spelling “Internet” is now a Capital Crime!
I saw the advertisement to the right on a web story that appeared, not surprisingly, on the AP Website. “We lowercased internet,” it notes, to which you might be inclined to respond, “Big hairy deal!” So what is this ad … Continue reading
Posted in Usage
Tagged AP, rules, stylebooks
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That’s Not Fair!
When Scott Adams gets it right, he gets it right. And guess what? He got it right here as he uses Dogbert to point out the truth about how people bandy around the phrase, “That’s not fair,” when it really … Continue reading
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McDonald’s Coffee Burns Me Up!
Is this fake news or genuine stuff? It’s entertaining, so it must be fake, right?
Posted in Student Skills
Tagged critical thinking, fake news, sources
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I Hope He’s Better at House Flipping!
How many things are wrong with this sign? First, he has not one, not two, but three sets of unneeded quotation marks. Second, he seems to have placed a hyphen before “Buy,” which I read as a minus sign. Therefore, … Continue reading
Posted in Friday Fun
Tagged misplaced modifiers, quotation marks
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Gondolas of Mars?
So you think that fake news is a 21st-century thing? Not hardly. People have been lying or–more to the present point–getting things wrong for centuries. An article on Five Thirty-Eight shares how an astronomer’s mistake through a telescope, seeing something … Continue reading →