Double Entry Journals: Your Scholarly Research Notes for College-level Critical Thinking
What is a double-entry research journal?
Reading with a highlighter in your hand encourages you to agree with or ignore what you read. That’s a very limited way to engage with a text.
By contrast, double-entry notes are a way of making complex connections between different things that you read.
My students often tell me that when they take good double-entry notes, they get a much better paper when the time comes for them to start actually churning out the paragraphs.
MLA In-text citations: Writing that got you through high school won’t do in college.
MLA In-text citations: Writing that got you through high school won’t do in college.
Persuasion: Logos, Pathos, Ethos and Kairos
Persuasion: Logos, Pathos, Ethos and Kairos
Picking a rubric in Canvas should not be so frustrating that it makes me want to blog about it… and yet here we are.
In general, I find Canvas a fairly decent system, but after a particularly frustrating hour wrestling with rubrics, I decided to spend two more hours blogging about my frustrations. I would expect a drop-down list to be populated with all the rubrics I’ve already created for my current class, and it would be a nice…
MLA Citations: Citation generators make mistakes. Here’s how to spot 5 errors they often make.
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In MLA Style, use the ellipsis only to mark an omission from the middle of a quotation.
If you are writing an academic paper that quotes from an author that uses the ellipsis in a way that differs from MLA style (such as the script of a modern play that uses “…” to indicate when a speaker is interrupted, or a graphic novel that might use “…” to indicate a meaningful silence…
Students tend to zone out during my lectures on proofreading. I time it so I can say “class dismissed“ as soon as I show that last headline.
“The author talks about [topic]” is filler. Your professors want your college-level ideas.
More Evidence that Choosing a Typeface Is Important
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Toasty Warm Bed (designed by drunk AI neural net)
Woman Yelling at Cat About Academic Argument: an evidence-based defense of a non-obvious position on a complex issue.
See: Academic Argument: Evidence-based Defense of a Non-obvious Position
If you want to work with words, then journalism courses are very practical options.
A student just booked an appointment to discuss picking up journalism as a second major. Excellent choice!
Courage Wolf: Write “Could Of” or “Would Of.” I Dare You.
Ironic Quotes
Commonly Misused Words: ALL RIGHT and (Slang) ALRIGHT
For more on ALL RIGHT, ALL READY and ALL TOGETHER, see Grammar Girl. The slang term “alright” is always slang.
Commonly Misused Words: THAN and THEN
Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything
The Alot is an imaginary creature that I made up to help me deal with my compulsive need to correct other people’s grammar. It kind of looks like a cross between a bear, a yak and a pug, and it has provided hours of entertainment for me in a situation where I’d normally be left…