How to Avoid Overwriting http://hoki.es/q9SMxQ # Shame in Academic Writing – Advice – The Chronicle of Higher Education http://hoki.es/pfR6QS # Encore Episode: Wikipedia’s Co-Founder on Academic Uses, and Limits, of Popular Open Encyclopedia – CHE http://hoki.es/qm51ve # Women in STEM:…
Tag: writing
@newsfromtengrrl for 2011-08-01
For New Yorker on iPad, Words Are the Thing (New Yorker on iPad Shows Viewers Want to Read) – NYTimes.com http://hoki.es/ojMC2I # Why Trying to Learn Clear Writing in College is Like Trying to Learn Sobriety in a Bar –…
Changing the Workflow to Get More Done
If you show up somewhere with your shirt on backwards, someone usually lets you know. People realize right away that the picture is on the back, the buttons aren’t where they belong, and the shirt just isn’t right. A friend…
Memorial Day: Bits Flashback for May 30
In honor of Memorial Day, I wanted to point back to an entry I wrote last October on writing about photos. The image I used to illustrate it was the one that came to mind when I thought about Memorial…
Graduations: Bits Flashback for May 16
A severe thunderstorm brought graduation ceremonies at Virginia Tech to an abrupt and very early conclusion here in Blacksburg on Friday night. The keynote speaker never even made it to the podium. Fortunately, students were able to pick up their…
Preparing for the Last Weeks of the School Year: May 15 to 21 on ReadWriteThink
The school year is soon coming to a close. Students will make their way to summer camps, family vacations, and nearby pools and parks. Before you face that room of empty desks, spend a few minutes thinking about the resource…
Another Trauma Narrative: Bits Flashback for May 8
On Saturday, Black College Wire posted an article on a composition assignment that had consequences the teacher never expected. The teacher, Lisa Carl, asked students to write “either a first-person autobiographical account of a significant event in their lives or…
Bits Flashback for May 2
Did you stay up late last night watching the developing news (or maybe grading papers)? If so, it’s possible “Parts of your brain could be sleeping right now,” according to a recent study. The NIH-funded study of the brain activity…
Cake! Bits Flashback for April 3
The solution to writer’s block is cake! A round-up of Tips for Fighting Writer’s Block, from the Inside Higher Ed’s University of Venus blog, includes everything from setting rigid deadlines to sitting down for some cake and coffee. Cake may…
Turning Blog Posts Into a Book Draft
After thirty days of thinking, sorting, and scribbling, I turned a variety of notes and blog posts into a very rough and informal book draft of 52,967 words. Now as I confessed a month ago, I went about the process…