Sentences with phrase «of academic writing about»

This seems to be something of a challenge to contemporary practices of academic writing about film.

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While the content can seem a bit dense and academic at times — the essays are, after all, written by some of the nation's leading thinkers on business issues — the website is a potentially valuable resource for policy makers and anyone thinking about starting a new business.

It will come as no surprise therefore that there has been a lot of academic writing and disputes about «the Perfect Asset Allocation».

Academics write about things they know so much about that they no longer have any passion for the subject or any sense of its intrinsic interest, since, for understandable reasons, it is all now very boring to them.

Yes, I like thousands of highly credentialed scientists from the world's leading academic and scientific institutions who have written dozens, if not hundreds of books casting doubt on Evolutionary Theory, I do have our doubts about evolutionary theory and Darwinism.

Murad Winter, director of Britain» s Muslim Academic Trust has written «For Muslims, the Koran is the integral, infallible word of God; traditional Christians believe something no less ambitious about Christ.»

The task of a non-Muslim scholar writing about Islam is that of constructing an exposition that will do justice to the Western academic tradition, by growing directly out of the objective evidence and by being rationally coherent both within itself and with all other knowledge, and at the same time will do justice to the faith in men's hearts by commanding their assent once it is formulated.

Lynch's academic habit of writing often leaves non-specialists, for whom the book is clearly intended, feeling that we would do better to live in our world and ponder it, rather than read a book about how we know.

But precisely because I find so much of it so deeply meaningful, I can not abide pseudo - intellectual / academic art or writing about it.

I've written a lot over the years (really, A LOT - see the Related Links below) about junk food in school classrooms, whether distributed by teachers as rewards for good behavior and academic performance or served as part of birthday or classroom... [Continue reading]

With the exam safely behind me I'm back to blogging, but still have academic IR debates on the mind, so today I want to write about what the history of early 20th century European relations can tell us about the continent's current political economy.

He's currently writing about the history of academic publishing and different conceptions of ownership and evaluation in academia.

I remember that from some of the letters received by The Spectator in response to my article it was clear that the letter - writers simply did not believe what I wrote about British atrocities in India, even though I was reporting the findings of non-partisan academics.

GBENGA ADENIJI and SIMON UTEBOR write about the hideous face of cultism which is dangerously polluting the academic milieu in the nation's public secondary schools Looking forlorn and weak, Miss Lillian Friday, a 16 - year - old pupil of Community Secondary School, Otuoke in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has yet to get over her -LSB-...]

Dennis Kavanagh and Philip Cowley, the academic authors of The British General Election 2010 (the first such volume not written or co-authored by David Butler since 1951) conclude that this was «a landmark election», confirming the importance of multi-party politics, so different from the bipolar 50s, and bringing about the first peacetime coalition since the fall of Lloyd George in 1922.

GBENGA ADENIJI writes about the fee hike in some Nigerian public universities which is posing a threat to the academic sojourn of most students It was like a nightmare when Bowale Aderemi (not real name) heard that the N25, 000 tuition fee he normally pays at the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, was no -LSB-...]

An academic integrity - focused approach to addressing plagiarism emphasises the promotion of positive values alongside education of staff and students about good, and bad, practice in writing, studying and assessment design.

For the majority of scientists who won't get tenure - track positions — and may not want them — Research Universities states that the great need is to «better position new PhDs for the careers they will have by providing more information about career options and by providing opportunities to acquire, in addition to the knowledge of one's field, skills that are useful for academic positions (teaching, grant writing, publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and written communication, project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)»

► Also in News & Analysis, David Malakoff wrote about plans by the Pentagon to reduce the budgets of the military's funders of academic research.

«And if you want to become a PI, you should also learn more about the academic field, so that you have more understanding of grant writing and items you don't get exposed to as a Ph.D. student.»

Being a rotator can be a heady experience for an academic, says John Conway, who recently retired as a mathematics professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. «When you first start work here you are often told that you make recommendations only,» Conway wrote in 2005 about serving as a program officer (PO) in NSF's division of mathematics sciences.

Even so, David Fisher has written an amusing book about them, with a little sex, some academics behaving badly and lots of great science.

«These finds got us thinking about the descriptions in the Sagas that describe Steinkjer as a trading place,» the researchers wrote of their findings in Vitark, an academic journal published by the University Museum from Dec. 2012.

In this touching remembrance, Rajini Rao writes about Carolyn Slayman, a professor at Yale University who served as deputy dean for academic and scientific affairs and led the department of genetics.

Blanford — a senior lecturer in biomaterials at the University of Manchester, UK — thought it was an «amusing coincidence» that he was chosen as a fake reviewer, given that he has written about malpractice in academic publishing.

One of the things we scientists and academics have to keep reminding ourselves is that many of the people outside the science community who write about this don't regard it as their job to educate people.

Nina and I are friends as well, even though I say her name wrong, who has also written some books about fat, but there's this national conversation where you have the old school low - fats, mostly paid for by big grain sort of research out there, and you're refuting some of that using very strong academics, randomized controlled trials, and the things that everyone wants, but no one has paid for except for maybe big drug companies and things like that.

About Blog WIT is a shared blog by women trained in the academic disciplines of theology who write from a Christian ecumenical and often feminist perspective.

Extras: «Lucy Mazdon on Henri - Georges Clouzot»: The French cinema expert and academic talks at length about the films of Clouzot and the troubled production of «Inferno»; «They Saw Inferno,» a featurette including unseen material, providing further insight into the production of «Inferno»; filmed introduction by Serge Bromberg; interview with Serge Bromberg; stills gallery; original trailer; reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Twins of Evil; First Pressing Only: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Ginette Vincendeau.

And last month I wrote about a new paper studying an early retirement plan in Illinois that led to huge numbers of older, more experienced teachers retiring but which resulted in no academic harm.

Bempechat's well - written book takes a fresh look at vital questions about the academic achievement of minority children.

June Kronholz wrote about spelling bees and other academic competitions in the Summer 2010 issue of Ed Next.

Next up: David Lodge, whose comic writing about academic life is great fun, has written a quasi-biography of H.G. Wells.

June Kronholz wrote about the popularity of spelling bees and other academic competitions in the Summer 2010 issue of Education Next.

When I write about the merits of the Chinese way, I'm not promoting testing per se; I'm talking about attitudes that are important to academic success.

Kathleen Porter - Magee, the Superintendent and Chief Academic Officer at the Partnership, wrote about this past year in «Faith, Hope, and Hard Work: Reflections on Year One of Partnership Schools,» which was recently published on the Ed Next blog.

The word puvidham loosely translates from Tamil as «love for the earth,» and children learn much of their academics through organic farming, including math (establishing planting patterns), biology (studying the relationships between plant growth and environmental factors), economics (determining the price of a farm product), and language skills (writing about their activities and observations).

Writing at length about the New York Fed paper, Libby Nelson of Vox aptly described the academic research on the Bennett Hypothesis as finding relationships that are «either complex or downright contradictory.»

Articles, books, and journals have been written about how to support our new teachers — guidance on lesson planning, suggestions for classroom management techniques, and support in professional decision - making are just a few of the many components our novice teachers need as they begin their academic journey.

This will help them show what they've learned about attributes of polygons in writing that includes academic vocabulary.

In the Winter 2011 issue of Education Next, Peter Meyer wrote about U.S. middle schools as the place where academic achievement goes to die.

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Cohen's story is misguided on several levels, but the basic problem is that she claims to be writing about «the culture of poverty,» but instead writes about the revival of academic interest in the dysfunctional African - American family, the subject of a controversial 1965 report by Daniel Patrick Moynihan («The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,» which can be viewed here.).

Several years ago, the Harvard Graduate School of Education began offering the online workshop, a collaborative venture supported by the Dean's Office, Academic Affairs, the Office of Student Affairs, Gutman Library Writing Services, and the Learning Technologies Center (LTC), to address student questions about American academic writing, and also to build a community among the incoming international sAcademic Affairs, the Office of Student Affairs, Gutman Library Writing Services, and the Learning Technologies Center (LTC), to address student questions about American academic writing, and also to build a community among the incoming international stWriting Services, and the Learning Technologies Center (LTC), to address student questions about American academic writing, and also to build a community among the incoming international sacademic writing, and also to build a community among the incoming international stwriting, and also to build a community among the incoming international students.

The trio of education polls we wrote about last week show only 38 percent of Americans can identify the new, nationally - crafted academic standards adopted by 45 states, including Indiana (we know regular StateImpact readers are among that enlightened third).

The authors describe the four stages of implementing the program: modifying teachers» beliefs about what causes success or failure; guiding teachers to provide effective feedback; structuring written dialogues between students and teachers; and fostering classroom discussions of social and academic successes or failures.

«One of the basic things you always have to do when writing about education results is to account for differences in the populations,» said Fredrik deBoer, Academic Assessment Manager Brooklyn College, in a phone interview.

The graduation rates for the schools that DeVos named in her written testimony are far below what is acceptable, and not inconsistent with claims about the thoroughly rotten academic performance of virtual charter schools in general.

In reference to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos» confirmation hearing, during which she responded to a question about the choice between using student proficiency or academic growth to gauge school progress, CORE Districts Executive Director Rick Miller writes an op - ed for EdSource in support of measuring both.

They wrote letters that addressed historical information about their lives, why they were becoming teachers, and the academic and personal likes of their host student buddy, as well as a photograph.