Sentences with phrase «longer writing projects»

However, working on longer writing projects requires a different kind of focus and I haven't wanted to risk losing my momentum.

BTW, I'm excited that some features of the upcoming professional version of MindVisualizer mind mapping software will make the long writing projects easier

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Andurand, who runs oil hedge fund Andurand Capital Management LLP, wrote in a string of tweets on Sunday that companies may be less willing to risk investment in long term oil projects because of low crude barrel prices and a predicted peak in electric vehicle demand.

Acuff, a bestselling author and career expert, has written a book perfect for anyone who finds themselves constantly starting, and then failing to finish, long - term projects.

The New Yorker «s Jia Tolentino profiles civil rights attorney Gloria Allred, whose career, she writes, can be seen as a «decades - long project to expand the boundaries of legitimate victimhood.»

Sadly, I only wrote 3 blog posts in 2013 (busy with other projects), but despite that, blog traffic increased over 700 % in 6 months, which goes to show that a little content promotion can go a long way.

Reflecting on Kevin Kiley's article «Long Reads» at Inside Higher Ed, Erin O'Connor writes: Teaching high school for a year at a very interesting little Berkshire boarding school got me onto shared class reading projects — the kids I was teaching were very smart, but, like....

It had been a long time since I'd worked on any kind of serious project, but I'd been thinking and writing a lot about the concept of baptism at the time, so it seemed safe to assume that if I was diligent, the other songs would steadily emerge.

Not too long ago, I was at a dinner party and was asked by the hostess if I'd been embroiled in any intense writing projects lately.

After writing 100 % Rye I took some time away from baking with rye, both because I was baking more wheat or gluten - free sourdough for other projects and also because I don't like to stick with the same thing for a long time.

Please note: The nature of voluntary and community sector funding, and the often crucial role of individuals in creating and sustaining projects, means that case studies described on this website may have changed substantially since time of writing or may no longer be in existence.

Please note: The nature of voluntary and community sector funding, and the often crucial role of individuals in creating and sustaining projects, means that case studies described on this website may have changed substantially since time or writing or may no longer be in existence.

What makes writing a great summer activity for kids is that the projects can be either short - term or long - term.

But the project has the backing of the Long Island Association and its president Kevin Law, who wrote a letter of support, Citizens Campaign for the Environment and the Sustainability Institute at Molloy College, whose directors, Adrienne Esposito and Neal Lewis also penned letters of support.

He cited an Investigative Post report from last year that the initial request for proposal for a major Buffalo Billion project was written in a way to benefit one of Cuomo's long - time donors, developer Louis Ciminelli.

In 2016, she helped conceive Genome Project - write, whose aims include assembling a synthetic human genome from off - the - shelf parts and — because, really, as long as you're making a human genome, why not?

NIGMS «is seeking feedback from the research community on the idea of giving all its roughly 3300 investigators the option of applying to swap their project grants for a single, long - term award based largely on their track record,» Kaiser wrote.

To remedy this, Wiest started a pilot grant - writing project: a 3 - month - long weekly seminar series with the end goal of producing for submission a K22 Career Development Award, a grant to facilitate the transition of fellows into independent faculty positions.

«It shows we haven't been out on a limb for the last few years,» says Andrew Maynard, chief scientist at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars» Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies in Washington, D.C. Maynard has long criticized coordination of EHS research under NNI, and he was also a member of the NRC panel that wrote today's report.

Recent and rapid advances in technologies that permit large - scale creation and synthesis («writing») of longer pieces of synthetic DNA, as well as the advent of extremely fast, cheap and accurate sequencing («reading») of DNA, have changed our collective thinking about the feasible size and scope of projects in many labs.

In a foreword to the book, Gustavo Fonseca, GEF's Director of Programs, wrote: «GEF has a long history of supporting conservation of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia) and its habitat, having approved 24 total projects and invested nearly USD $ 100 million toward UNDP - implemented projects in all 12 range countries since 1991.

so I can't wait to see what you have created, cooked or baked, «upcycled», renovated, written... just any project or inspiring post you want to share, as long as it's your own.

I'm writing a post for tomorrow and it is taking WAY longer than the actual project!

The film will be directed by Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids) and was written by James Cameron and Laeta Kalogridis (Shutter Island), which had long been in Cameron's queue as his next directing project.

Joe Robert Cole (Black Panther) wrote an early draft of the script but as of last year he was no longer involved with the project.

Though Bay's name is the flashiest on the long list of executive producers behind this project from Paramount and Skydance Television, Lost's Carlton Cuse created the story for Ryan's latest adventures along with Graham Roland, a veteran of The Returned and Almost Human, who wrote the pilot.

Some interesting quick observations: There are eight Marvel - branded features opening in theaters, multiple long - awaited animated Disney sequels, the very first Star Wars summer movie under the Disney umbrella, and new projects written and directed by Alex Garland and Wes Anderson.

Warren Beatty is finally getting his chance to play Howard Hughes in long - held passion project Rules Don't Apply, which the actor wrote and will direct — and it only took Ron Burkle, Steve Bing, Terry Semel, Arnon Milchan, and Brett Ratner to scrape together the tiny $ 26.7 million budget to get it off the ground... Weekend director Andrew Haigh's follow - up film is 45 Years.

«The process of making a first feature film, writing all the drafts and raising the budget, is really long and complicated,» said Talya Lavie, an Israeli filmmaker working on a project entitled «Zero Motivation,» and the Institute has already been helpful in letting her focus on the creative aspects of her project.

Sylvia speaks, writes, and advocates for student - centered, project - based learning, gender equity in technology, computer programming, and life - long learning.

Meltzer explained that executive function involves the processes - organizing, planning, prioritizing, shifting flexibly, self - monitoring, and checking - that are a prerequisite for lengthy writing assignments, reading comprehension, long - term projects, studying, and taking tests.

New York City's schools, for example, have long been have long been in the thrall of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project (TCRWP), which encourages even the youngest children to plumb the depths of their six - and seven - year - old souls for material for personal essays.

In addition, library research, independent projects, science experiments, oral histories, long - term writing assignments different from those being tested in a particular year are all being eliminated or reduced in those schools where TAAS scores have been low.

The website is a building block for a longer term project for the group: a photo essay book meant to capitalize on the writing and photography skills of the team, set for press later this year.

sign Location signs to put around your role play ice - cream parlour — such as ice - cream bar, drinks area, cutlery etc On sale here sign Menus to display around the shop Price cards + blanks to differentiate Large lettering, buntings, patterned and plain display borders Please pay here sign Thank you, please come again — sign Special offer signs Receipts to complete Taking orders pad Ice - cream photo flashcards showing different flavours — great for using during the role play Parking bay signs for customers Washing hands poster Money poster, coins border and quiz, pretend money to use Blank large and extra large labels to be used around the shop for anything needed Ice - cream parlour open and closed signs, opening times Messages pad Ice - cream related word mini cards — such as wafer, sprinkles, syrup etc Photo pack to use as inspiration Long banner «ice - cream parlour» with cute ice cream pictures Bunting banner with pictures of different ice - creams — looks lovely in your role play ice - cream parlour 10 multicultural face masks, Staff role play badges Alphabet flashcards, Colour flashcards, Number flashcards, ordinal numbers cards, Counting cards Colouring pages Word matching cards, picture matching cards Hand hygiene writing task Word search Write sentences worksheet Themed writing frames Work booklet cover to keep pupils project work together Acrostic poem task Addition game Blank thought and speech bubbles — useful for providing evidence of role plays Draw your favourite flavour ice - cream task Design your own menu activity Folder, binder, drawer labels to keep resources organised Resources sack tag

It can be hard to stay focused on and committed to a project that takes as long to bring from the stage of conception to a written piece of work as a dissertation.

That can be especially true the first time you conduct a project, because it's easy to overlook how long it might take students to create high - quality products, whether those products are writing, live presentations, multimedia or digital.

McPherson, a long - time advocate of service - learning, thinks strategically about how to sustain projects like this one and the others emerging from the Roosevelt Publishing and Writing Center.

«We [also] do one [where students] write a little e-book to explain how cars and fuels influence the greenhouse effect... That one is a very big project that goes on for quite a long time.»

In this WebQuest project, students write essays to persuade their families to use a particular long - distance phone plan.

Resources included are as follows: 3 0 P D F files for you to print: Key word cards, chapter 2 to read, chapter 2 writing task about finding the key, Story elements, Story board to complete, writing pages, A 4 topic title to introduce the book, retell the story from another point of view, write a diary entry task, write a postcard, acrostic poem to complete, make words from letters, photo pack, flashcards of character names, character descriptions, my favourite part of the story is — drawing page, I like this story because writing task, design a new book cover, draw a garden scene, hand puppet template to draw, draw a family portrait, writing booklet cover to keep pupils project work together, large display items door to the garden and large key, long banner to head wall display, large letters to spell out book title, display border to edge wall display, story sack tag to keep resources together.

Most NWP - affliated satellite projects (usually tethered to a university) will run multiple week - long Summer Institutes, where teachers write, research and teach as part of teacher - led PD.

Photo pack — Colourful A4 poster pack showing key things related to the water cycle, such as sun, snow, rain, ocean etc Water cycle diagram to label and colour Several versions of images showing the complete water cycle with varying levels of difficulty Extra large images to make a full water cycle display — eg A4 size sun, clouds, rain drops, etc Fact cards — half 4 size with facts about water and the water cycle — great for reading or display Key word cards — half A4 size showing all words relating to the water cycle Water cycle booklet to complete Presentation to make with cue cards for pupils to complete Draw a water cycle worksheet Acrostic poem to complete True or false quiz Sentence writing sheet to summarise topic understanding Mind map Weather types matching cards to use as memory card game World map to demonstrate size of oceans Long banner to head display Extra large patterned lettering to head wall display (patterned with raindrops) 3 patterned and plain display borders Writing booklet cover to keep pupils project work together Writing border with water cycle image to use for generic writing tasks Word search Sack tag to keep resources orwriting sheet to summarise topic understanding Mind map Weather types matching cards to use as memory card game World map to demonstrate size of oceans Long banner to head display Extra large patterned lettering to head wall display (patterned with raindrops) 3 patterned and plain display borders Writing booklet cover to keep pupils project work together Writing border with water cycle image to use for generic writing tasks Word search Sack tag to keep resources orWriting booklet cover to keep pupils project work together Writing border with water cycle image to use for generic writing tasks Word search Sack tag to keep resources orWriting border with water cycle image to use for generic writing tasks Word search Sack tag to keep resources orwriting tasks Word search Sack tag to keep resources organised

High - quality middle schools have long put project - based learning, reading and writing across content areas, and active learning at the heart of their instructional practice.

Former Teacher Project reporter Alexandria Neason wrote a new Village Voice piece (To Fight Institutional Racism, Teachers Are Going Back to School) and had a long feature in Harper's about school choice in Arizona at roughly the same time it was announced she's joining CJR as a senior staff writer.

Its In - depth lessons use both innovative and traditional teaching techniques including: long - range projects, cooperative learning activities, and reflective journal writing.

Natalie Bernasconi is a University of California, Santa Cruz lecturer; National Board Certified Teacher at Alisal High School in Salinas, Calif.; technology literacy coach; Google Certified Teacher; and long - time National Writing Project (NWP) fellow.

Luckily, the Bishop Museum Press had just published Mary Kawena Pukui's bilingual collection of Hawaiian folktales, and breaking my department's copying budget, I set about using it as the basis for a semester long project on family folk stories incorporating oral, written, and visual presentations.

I hope that your students will WANT to complete this fun book report project that is larger and contains longer writing responses for students than other wanted posters that you have used in the past.

In the long run, you'll find it is much better to take the time you need to write the best book you can write than to finish your project in a hurry, only to find that the end results don't meet even your own standards for quality.