Sentences with phrase «off point for discussion»

Providing the prompt via email also allows the professor to model effective (or ineffective) email practices that can provide a jumping - off point for a discussion or for a point of comparison.

Organized on the occasion of «Beatriz Santiago Muñoz: Song, Strategy, Sign,» the conversation will take Santiago Muñoz's presentation at the New Museum as a jumping - off point for discussion.

I came across a video analyzing 12 long takes in cinema, and it should be a fun jumping - off point for discussion.

That I've done a little work, though, has become interesting fodder to share to readers... and is a great jumping off point for discussion.

Which brings me to an important point: no one is claiming vast scientific rigor for this poll, so consider this list a jumping off point for discussion rather than the final statement on the topic.

In their book, Levinson and Fay suggest different ways for their case studies to be used as jumping off points for discussions among faculty.

The study was published in February 2016 in the Journal of Addiction Medicine and has been used as a jumping - off point for discussions at state bars around the country trying to answer the question of what to do about the problem.

Not exact matches

I don't see the point of Pascal's entire discussion if there is no pay off for believing, or at least pretending to.

Reasonable expectations should be established for pain management discussions and follow - up visits, and incorporate a protocol for a patient to be transitioned off of an opioid to acetaminophen or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) at a specific time point following surgery.

I also have received many letters from parents; they appreciate the assignment because, in many cases, the questions prove to be a jumping off point for substantive discussion with their children.

This provides the jumping - off point for further discussion.

But also pointing out that in class discussions that disagreement has to be conducted respectfully so that if you disagree with one another about something we're sharing you give reasons for that, you don't simply mouth off at another student because you disagree with them.

The discussion, which in many ways served as jumping off point for the two - day Alumni of Color Conference, raised as many questions as it answered for long standing problems that do not yield themselves to quick solutions.

For example, during a whole class discussion, students should be expected to bounce ideas off of their peers» comments, paraphrase and extend the conversation, and, through inquiry, sharpen and deepen the points being raised — all without the teacher serving as the intermediary.

While they are intended as jumping - off points for further discussion and reflection, you can also have students address these themes by writing their own movie reviews or scene analyses.

This activity can be used as a pre - post self - assessment for the student, or as the jumping off point for a large group discussion, and / or as an instructor self - assessment.

The Staff Room of Canada's SchoolNet Forum One The jumping off point to discussion fora on the Internet, including some excellent ones for teachers and educators.

While some modern readers would argue that the collection is no longer complete, Eliot's primary goal is still achieved by The Harvard Classics serving aptly as a jumping off point for education and discussion; imagine what his joy would be, knowing they can all be held in the palms of our hands.

As was pointed out helpfully by DeFiore in WU discussion, the HarperCollins demonstration of ebook profitability for News Corp backers that touched off the debate is «a simplistic look at a complex issue» because it represents one profit scenario devised for investors» eyes, an example that can be affected and changed by «all kinds of pricing experiments and price points.»

So when addressing the issue that started this discussion off, i.e. your claims of over-whelming evidence for AGW, I will continue to focus on the 2 points central to most skeptics postion:

The post is «Twenty reasons why it's kicking off everywhere,» and it lays out twenty bullet points that would provide fodder for a discussion about recent social ferment, particularly in Europe and North Africa, and how it's not happening quite the way some of us oldies might expect.

Scott Greenfield and I went back and forth on this issue over the past month, and even though Abovethelaw and the Wall Street Journal sites both followed the discussion, we never really settled the issue. The ABA thought otherwise, so while nobody was paying attention they signaled victory for Scott and the baby boomers. The reasoning? The economy is in such rough shape, no young attorney could possibly hope for law firms to provide balance. This was faulty logic in my opinion, they seemed to have missed the point, many members of Generation Y would rather go off on their own then play the biglaw game. But hey, the boomers are still the ones in charge of the news outlets, so I guess that's the final word.

Those are how the panels have been developed: each is designed to be a kind of jumping off point for this flavor of discussion.

Anyway, thanks for the explanation, and to the readers for allowing this to veer away from the topic of your model — it does raise an important point though about all manner of creative set - offs an LB could demand via a listing particularly if via a board's MLS rules the LB has the right to arbitrarily enforce their offer of compensation to a CB and so I would hope board directors see this discussion and ask the appropriate questions of their legal council.