Social Media Policy- In Print We Trust: Here’s why newspapers score over social media - Times of India May 17, 2022
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- Celebrity Social Media Round-Up for May 16, 2022 - LaineyGossip May 17, 2022
- Why Suns were forced to apologize to fans twice on social media for Game 7 loss vs. Mavericks - Sporting News May 17, 2022
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- Social media platforms vowed to rein in extremism. Buffalo puts them to the test – KION546 - KION May 16, 2022
- Locked Out: How a Social Media Customer Service Gap Is Costing Users - NBC 6 South Florida May 16, 2022
- Social media under scrutiny after teens flood downtown Chicago, 1 killed - FOX 32 Chicago May 16, 2022
- ‘Think Before You Link’: app launched to help social media users detect fake profiles - The Guardian May 16, 2022
- Kwantlen
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- City seeks public feedback in review of RCMP - CKPGToday.ca May 16, 2022
- Vernon newspaper golden at B.C. awards gala - Vernon Morning Star May 16, 2022
- Garden club returns to in-person events - Delta Optimist May 15, 2022
- All ethnicities in Richmond need to tackle racism - Richmond News May 14, 2022
- KPU vice president of students running for Vancouver School Board trustee - The Runner May 14, 2022
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- New funding sprouts more growth for BC seeds - Greenhouse Canada May 10, 2022
- UBC
- T-Birds dominate Firebirds to advance at NAIA Baseball National Championship Opening Round - University of British Columbia Athletics - UBC Thunderbirds May 17, 2022
- Save Old Growth protester superglues hands to UBC library doors - Vancouver Is Awesome May 17, 2022
- Advocates criticize insufficient support for students in 2022 federal budget - Ubyssey Online May 16, 2022
- Health and Justice Alliance – 'Working together for families' - Doctors of BC May 16, 2022
- AMS Food Bank saw a 600-visit spike between February and March - Ubyssey Online May 16, 2022
- UBC experts on International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia - UBC News May 16, 2022
- UBC In The News - UBC News May 16, 2022
- Computed tomography-urography with CMP can exclude bladder cancer: BMC Urology - Medical Dialogues May 16, 2022
- Business Education
- Letter: Ditch social mobility for schools that nurture talent - Financial Times May 17, 2022
- Vision for new $33.8 million Armadale TAFE campus taking shape - Media Statements May 17, 2022
- Breaking News May 17 LIVE: Section 144 imposed in MP's Neemuch after dispute between two parties - Jagran English May 17, 2022
- Taliban promise 'good news' on girls' education - Macau Business May 17, 2022
- Leaders learn tough lessons about resilience - Financial Times May 17, 2022
- Cindy Arnold wins regional Administrator of the Year - The Reflector May 16, 2022
- Ivey Business School welcomes first group of Ukrainian students fleeing war to London Ont. - Global News May 16, 2022
- FirstFT: China tech stocks improve while economic activity plummets - Financial Times May 16, 2022
Tag Archives: academic writing
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Sometimes you have to read a story two or three times to make sure you’re reading it right. As in: A PhD candidate is hoping the University of Alberta changes its practice on publishing theses after hers was rejected for spelling her [Urdu] … Continue reading
How to write
I love my old friend Jonathan Mayhew’s prose. His blog, Stupid Motivational Tricks (Scholarly Writing and How to Get it Done), is often very charming (and it is always illuminating). Read this bit on the use of “scare quotes.” The … Continue reading
J. Hillis Miller
Professor Miller was a genial man whose ardent advocacy of the “deconstruction” movement in literary and cultural criticism was notable for his uncommonly graceful prose style. His early book “Poets of Reality” was a revelation to me my first year … Continue reading
Free at Last
United States copyright law was changed repeatedly in the last century to grant copyright extensions to entire classes of works of literature and entertainment. This meant that such work could not be referenced at length in works of scholarship without … Continue reading
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10% and “the crisis in knowledge”
Writes Jonathan Mayhew: Knowledge is under attack from several fronts at once. In science itself, it is due to corporate corruption and the inherent bias toward interesting but possibly false results. There was that paper about how most scientific findings are false. … Continue reading
Good scholarly habits
My dear friend Tierney Wisniewski, this website’s cofounder and coeditor, has started up a new blog devoted to her scholarly work and how she gets it done. I love her inaugural piece, “Good Scholarly Habits.” Tierney writes with great clarity and … Continue reading
Peers
Clarissa has a couple of words: In a way, the censorship in US academia is worse than the Soviet kind. The Soviet censors were mostly dumb, uneducated people, and it wasn’t all that hard to pull wool over their eyes … Continue reading
Transformative learning and student autonomy
No Contest co-founder Tierney Wisniewski has written a beautifully conceived and composed Master’s Thesis. Here’s the abstract. [I’ve added some paragraphing for ease of online reading, because abstracts by requirement are very, very fat.] Self-determination theory (SDT) is a well-established theory … Continue reading
No plagiarism foul
A super-smart student in my Advanced Professional Communications class asked me whether using an app that generates a citation for you in proper APA, MLA, Chicago style was plagiarism. My first thought was “I doubt it,” but in my line … Continue reading
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Writing in the Sciences
“The more that you take care with your writing, the more you might explore uncertainties in your thinking,” suggests Stanford University Environmental Earth System Science Professor Julie Kennedy in this excellent Writing Matters video. Kennedy helpfully stresses the primacy of … Continue reading