Sentences with phrase «of reading textbooks»

When I was in high school this became a problem because I would do is hide the book I was reading inside a textbook, so instead of reading the textbook, I read a novel.

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For medical school, this is typically reading 20 - 30 pages of a pathophysiology textbook.

If you've read the books above and are looking to deepen your knowledge of consumer psychology, look no further than Michael Solomon's classic textbook.

To adjust the supply of liquidity in the market, the Bank operates in the market by either buying or selling securities, which is the stuff you read in textbooks.

«It's almost like you read the economic textbook and did the opposite of what it said to do,» Zandi said.

This prework may consist of any or all of the following, based upon individual experience and background: article readings, textbook readings, short - course seminars, and / or on - line courses.

The duties of accountants read like a textbook example of work that can be done remotely.

Tellulah, read a lot of textbooks.

But its validity was suggested as early as 1969, when a Gallup Poll revealed that 58 percent of all Americans had never finished reading a book other than a textbook or the Bible, and only 26 percent had read a book in the previous month.24 One reason for this near - illiteracy is America's addiction to television.

It reminded me of most of the textbooks I had to read in seminary.

Regrettably, she does little more than provide us with a reminder of a textbook example of eisegesis (reading «into» the biblical text one's own ideology) rather than exegesis (reading «out of» Scripture with attentiveness to historical and literary context, even if it conflicts with one's own personal views).

They're reading boring but effective textbooks full of information reinforced in the class's power point presentations, doing very practical group projects (often in labs), and being challenged by detail - driven objective tests.

This is no less true of Warren's literary criticism, whether in such ambitious works as the famous essay on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner («A Poem of Pure Imagination: An Experiment in Reading»), the more modest but nonetheless incisive essays on such writers as Eudora Welty and Katherine Anne Porter, or in the textbooks themselves — just hardheaded practical sense for anybody who loves literature and believes it is an autonomous discipline and not a substitute for anything else.

He holds degrees in English and theology from Wheaton College and currently spends most of his day reading math and science textbooks.

Even though it flatly contradicts astronomy, geology and biology, Morris attempts to defend a literal reading of his textbook on the facts of nature: «The Bible teaches that the earth existed before the stars, that it was initially covered by water, that plant life preceded the sun, that the first animals created were the whales, that birds were made before insects, that man was made before woman.»

You don't read a history textbook the same way you read a book of poetry.

The instructors put the two of us in a room together for hours on end to read our textbooks, do our research, and quiz each other about what could possibly be on the exams.

Indeed, in my experience, visiting the Bodies exhibit was much more like reading the scientific writings of a J. Henri Fabre or an Erwin Straus (in short, of scientists who reveal beauty, order, and meaning in the natural world) than like reading a clinical biology textbook.

«Typically,» says Professor Harry M. Buck, Jr., «it is a three - hour course in «comparative religions» in which Christianity, Judaism and all the religions of Asia are surveyed in a single semester by lectures, textbook assignments and collateral readings.»

Gunter's essay once and for all sets to rest the most popular criticism of Bergson that is made by process philosophers and repeated in textbooks and popular media by writers who do not bother to read Bergson for themselves.

Few essays have been as widely reprinted in anthologies on the sociology of religion, as routinely cited in textbook discussions of religion, or (I suspect) as commonly required on the reading lists for graduate courses and general examinations in sociology of religion.

«According to you, no babies have ever died in the hospital for unforseen reasons...» Thank you for showcasing your inability to formulate a logical argument and lack of reading comprehension, and providing us with a textbook example of the strawman fallacy.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

i would read books at the dinner table, i would sneak novels in between the pages of my textbooks, and i always read in the car...

It could mean getting one of those reading light headbands and sitting in the room doing crossword puzzles or reading Lucky magazine or constitutional law textbooks while the baby sleeps.

I have to smile, I guess my babies never read the textbook, both of them nursed every 2 hours 24 hours a day for years:) They also never slept a good 6 to 8 hour stretch for at least 10 years, thank goodness for teenagehood and longer sleeps, of course I am older now and the one doing all the night waking.

About two years ago (2005), we read about the «Breast Crawl» in a textbook of neonatology «Care of the High - Risk Neonate» by Dr. Marshall Klaus and Dr. Avroy Fanaroff.

But it is hard to excel if a child can't read her textbook because she needs glasses, or misses days of school because of asthma, or is frightened for her family's future because her dad lost his job.

The statement read in part «The Indigenous People of Biafra under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has written and given instructions to every academic institution in Biafraland from nursery school to University to revert to original geography textbooks with Bight of Biafra in it.

Though it has the weight of a textbook, Elements is an accessible read even for the math - phobic.

He could no longer read textbooks, and his limited range of motion prevented him from using Braille's math equivalent.

«I have to read these books,» he says, waving a hand toward a wall of science and technology texts in his small, neat office at U.C.S.B.. For him, reading textbooks is like rehashing what is already known.

Very little of what is in the book has been shared with the reading public, and most of it is not in textbooks either, but will be.

I'd first read about H.M. in my freshman psychology textbook at college, in the fall of 1971, less than twenty years after the experimental surgery that robbed him of most of his existing memories and also of ability to form new ones.

One recent study (pdf) found that among a representative sample of U.S. science students, those who said their science teachers had them read textbooks more often had higher test scores.

At the September workshop, the teachers became the students as they read a research article under the guidance of Sally Hoskins, a professor at City College of New York who studies such educational methods and teaches biology courses that use primary literature in lieu of traditional textbooks.

Says Gomez: «I think that textbooks are a nice prelude to the kind of reading an adult has to do when they're reading science articles in The New York Times or in their local newspaper and they're trying to make sense of the big ideas they're being presented.»

I would divide distance education via the World Wide Web into three categories, each of which incorporates the previous category: The Web can be used as an electronic textbook to disseminate information for users to read (my own personal Web site is a good example); as an electronic textbook with quizzes, which also fosters interactions between the user and the machine, typically in the form of multiple - choice or true / false tests; and as an electronic conference, which goes beyond the electronic textbook to foster interactions between users and teachers.

Some of this is Cambridge's fault: it is packaged like a textbook, not like a good read.

Textbooks are supposed to be full of facts, but you can't always believe what you read.

MORE: Read about UVA's shocking discovery that the brain is directly connected to the immune system, overturning decades of textbook teaching.

This was a rather remarkable type of education because we were expected to read textbooks for one day of the week and then reviews for the second day, and then after that it had to be all original literature.

It's no surprise that Weid sees it as the perfect place to plop down with a textbook, enjoy a cup of tea, and read in the company of her 52 plant friends.

All of the trying - to - conceive women we talk to are far more interesting than textbooks... some women have multiple Cue Peaks, some women have «unexpected» ups and downs in their readings, some women end up with both a pink and purple box, and some women have vaginal readings that drop during the luteal phase.

In the textbook cycle, once the pink box is displayed, the vaginal readings will remain elevated throughout the luteal phase of your cycle.

What he did have, however, was the arrogance and swagger of somebody who'd read a few muscle magazines or kinesiology textbooks and now considers himself an authority amongst an otherwise «uneducated» group of gym grunts.

This is true; it is textbook metabolism — for example, read Vasudevan, Textbook of Biochemistry, Section B, General Metabolism, chapters 9 thru 11, where the medical professors go through glucose, carb & fat metabolism in deep detail.

I'll read about a certain nutrient in one of my textbooks for my nutritional therapy certification and I will think, I need to start getting more of this in my diet!

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