A GENERIC COLLEGE PAPER. | McSweeney’s | September 2015 Since the beginning of time, bullshit, flowery overgeneralization with at least one thesaurus’d vocabulary word. In addition, irrelevant and misleading personal anecdote. However, oversimplification of first Googled author (citation: p. 37). Thesis statement which doesn’t follow whatsoever from the previous.
Submitting essays: The jeopardy of just-in-time David Arnott, a professor at the University of Warwick’s business school, says he long believed that late submissions were reflected in lower grades. With a colleague, he devised a study looking at 777 undergraduate marketing students over a five-year period. It tracked the submission of online essays for end-of-term assignments for two modules: one
Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away | Medium | September 2014 A treasure trove of links to studies on the impacts of technology on thinking. The level of distraction in my classes seemed to grow, even though it was the same professor and largely the same set of topics, taught to a group of students
New study links smartphone use in students with increased anxiety and bad grades | The Independent | December 2013 The research from Kent State University looked at 500 students, noting that “high frequency cell phone users tended to have a lower GPA [academic scores], higher anxiety, and lower satisfaction with life relative to their peers who used the cell phone
More advice to students: How to write a #$%* essay | June 2013 How to Write a Crap Philosophy Essay: A Brief Guide for Students 1. Always begin your essay along these lines: “Since the very dawn of time the problem of free will has been considered by many of the greatest and deepest thinkers in history.” 2. Always end
Colleges are full of it: Behind the three-decade scheme to raise tuition, bankrupt generations, and hypnotize the media | Salon | June 2014 Excerpt: Over the last 30-odd years we have essentially privatized higher ed. In saying this I’m not referencing the defunding of our State U’s (an explanation for the tuition spiral, by the way, that doesn’t get nearly