Sentences with phrase «useful writing exercise»

The UK publication «Young Writer» magazine and the American «My Little Magazine» (now, sadly, no longer published) gave them more useful writing exercises than any text book, with the bonus of entering (and sometimes winning) competitions.

Other useful writing exercises include journaling, newspaper editorials to defend a position, and formal research - style formatted reports of student experimentation with data analysis.

Not exact matches

I didn't intend to write this for anyone's eyes but mine and frankly I'm a bit embarrassed by how naked it is, but I found the exercise so thought provoking and useful that I thought I'd share it.

Here's where the buddy system can be extra helpful, and I find writing in a journal or exercise log very useful in keeping me on track.

A useful exercise: writing your own Must Haves, Can't Stands While the lists of Must Haves and Can't Stands you'll find on the eHarmony site are pre-written for ease, this doesn't stop you from making your own lists.

As I suspected when I set out to write these blog posts, this has been a very useful exercise for me as it's helped me realise that some cards are really not worth their annual fees any more.

See Brugger, supra n. 141, at 647 (stating that while Tucker's moot court was «no innovation in legal training,» Tucker enjoyed using it); Butler, supra n. 143, at 29 (stating that «with the higher view of preparing students for speaking and writing on legal subjects, it will be useful to exercise their minds by forensic debates in moot courts, and by requiring from them written opinions on questions of law, and readings and dissertations on statutes and other themes, as circumstances permit»); Laub, supra n. 144, at 14 (quoting Reed's letter to the Dickinson College Trustees on a course of study); Barrow, supra n. 148, at 289.

Digital books, with links to cases, videos, citation exercises, and other instructional material, like the digital textbook described by Professor Donahoe, may also be very effective.219 Beyond writing classes, digital technology may be very useful in other applied learning courses that teach, for instance, trial advocacy, appellate advocacy, negotiation, lawyering skills, and ethics.

The exercise of recording and documenting what is working and what is not will be far more useful to you than spending the six weeks or so it takes to write, re-write, review and test a business plan.