Writing Rocks | National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity pebbles = 15 minutes stones = 30 minutes boulders = 45 minutes
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Why you should take notes by hand — not on a laptop | Vox | March 2015 “Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer, the psychologists who conducted the new research, believe it’s because students on laptops usually just mindlessly type everything a professor says. Those taking notes by hand, though, have to actively listen and decide what’s important — because they
1101, 2015
Nietzsche’s 10 Rules for Writers, Penned in a Letter to His Lover and Muse | Brain Pickings | August 2014 Between August 8 and August 24 of 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche set down ten stylistic rules of writing in a series of letters to the Russian-born writer, intellectual, and psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé — the first female psychoanalyst, who corresponded with Freud about
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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.
1909, 2014
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
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25 THINGS WRITERS SHOULD STOP DOING | January 2012 1. STOP RUNNING AWAY2. STOP STOPPING3. STOP WRITING IN SOMEONE ELSE’S VOICE4. STOP WORRYING5. STOP HURRYING6. STOP WAITING7. STOP THINKING IT SHOULD BE EASIER8. STOP DEPRIORITIZING YOUR WORDSMITHY9. STOP TREATING YOUR BODY LIKE A DUMPSTER10. STOP THE MOPING AND THE WHINING …