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Category Archives: Student Skills
Disagreement Doesn’t Require Rejection
I have been married longer than you have (probably) been alive. My wife is perfect. And that was a lie. There are things about her that are not perfect. There are factors in her personality and tendencies that I would … Continue reading
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Tagged Critical Reading, critique
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Sources on Capital Punishment
In reading over some papers inspired by Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy, I have learned a fair bit about sources that rise to the top of a Google search. Let me share a few observations. It seems as if everybody who searches … Continue reading
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Tagged death penalty, Just Mercy, research, sources
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Hacked off by Lifehack
One of the things that interests me, aside from sourdough biscuits, is the myth of multi-tasking. Since so many of my students think that they can write good material while playing World of Warcraft or binge-watching whatever the cool kids are … Continue reading
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Tagged critical thinking, multitasking, sources
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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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How to Sound Smart
There’s a lot of surface and shine that will pass for actual content when we don’t have the critical thinking skills to separate style from substance.
This is a Depressing State of Debt
If you don’t know about your student debt, you’re not a-loan. <groan> When a company in the student loan business interviewed students about their loans, it found that only 6 percent knew how long they’d be repaying the debt and … Continue reading
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Beating Writer’s Block
Some guy named Kenneth Burke has given us not one, not two, but six ways to overcome writer’s block. Now nobody will have an excuse. Here’s one that’s ridiculously easy: This one’s pretty simple, and it’s amazing how often drinking … Continue reading
No Cramming, Please
As the semester begins, we have 16 weeks ahead of us. Sixteen weeks, 112 days, four months–that’s a long time. But look ahead. At some point down the road, you’ll have a test in your sites. You’ll have two weeks … Continue reading
Get a Job–But Get the Right Job
Look at the larger version of this image to learn all manner of stuff about your working future.
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Tagged careers, Goals, student success
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You Can’t Afford to Be Lazy
Hey you–yeah you with the face–you need to pay attention to this. Slacking off in school is … well, it’s pretty bad, or so says this article from Bloomberg. American college graduates finished below the average of their peers in … Continue reading
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Tagged statistics, student success
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