Sentences with phrase «writing professors use»

The article begins with a brief survey of the various ways that legal writing professors use non-legal examples and then situates them within the larger context of learning theory and the emerging field of positive psychology.

Not exact matches

«What we found is that people who spent money to buy time reported being almost one full point higher on our 10 - point [happiness] ladder, compared to people who did not use money to buy time,» wrote Elizabeth Dunn, an author of the study and a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia.

Frank Pasquale, a University of Maryland law professor who's written extensively about how corporations use personal data, said the federal government's antitrust enforcers should be more vigilant with Facebook.

The fragment, written in Coptic, a language used by Egyptian Christians, says in part, «Jesus said to them, «My wife...» Harvard Divinity School Professor Karen King announced the findings of the 1 1/2 - by 3 - inch honey - colored fragment on Tuesday in Rome at the International Association for Coptic Studies.

On returning home, the learned professor wrote an article using my brief answer as his title.

Staples is also upset with Carter for writing that on some elite campuses «it is perfectly acceptable for professors to use their classrooms to attack religion, to mock it, [and] to refer to those to whom faith really matters as dupes.»

It would create pressure on churches to let themselves be used for tax - deductible campaign spending,» wrote the University of Virginia law professor.

Far more promising is the approach of Professor Branscomb in «The Moffatt New Testament Commentary» (1937), who views the Gospel as based upon «the common tradition of the Gentile churches,» though the use of sources, even of written sources, is not only not denied but even presupposed in the discussion of more than one section of the Gospel.

Writing in the New York Observer, Anne Roiphe summarizes the tale: «The Hannah Arendt - Martin Heidegger story is about a professor who slept with his student, used her, sent her away, lied to her, joined the regime that wanted to kill her, and then used her again to rehabilitate his reputation.»

Earlier today I criticized pastors and professors for using big words in their theological writing and teaching.

In August, after Driscoll had written a story in the Courant reporting that Commonas» betting pattern at Milford was the same that he used at Dania, Professor Snyder urged the gaming commission to act.

One of the first things discussed was relationship contracts — yep, the contract in The New I Do that asks couples to talk, agree to and write down how they want to structure their relationship based on their goals and values, the same contract that Modern Love essayist and creative writing professor Mandy Len Catron used when moving in with her romantic partner, Mark, and that she highlights in her book, How to Fall in Love With Anyone.

Despite finding that underreporting continues to be what she wrote in two 2013 studies to be an «alarming» [17] and «overwhelming» problem, [16] Johna Register - Mihalik, Ph.D, LAT, ATC, Senior Research Associate at WakeMed and Adjunct Assistant Professor at UNC - Chapel Hill, told MomsTEAM that the the reason the use of impact sensors was not among the recommendations she and her co-authors in those studies made to address the problem of chronic underreporting was that she viewed «the use of impact sensors in concussion detection, as the science, although a growing field of information, is just not quite there in how these may best be used from a clinical standpoint and across all sport settings.»

When I chronicled our first grueling night of sleep training two weeks ago, mothers who had successfully used the method developed by Weissbluth, a sleep expert and professor of clinical pediatrics at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine, wrote and offered their support.

Teachers and professors specify the citation style to be used when writing essays.

Using the two - billion word Oxford English Corpus, a mind - bogglingly large electronic collection of various writings (newspapers, weblogs, science writing, etc.), Professor Culpeper found that actions likely to be described as rude or impolite included: «eavesdropping», «interrupting», «pointing», «ignoring», «smoking», «listening (in)» and «laughing».

«While biotechnology is being pursued primarily for beneficial and legitimate purposes, there are potential uses that are detrimental to humans, other species, and ecosystems,» said Michael Imperiale, professor and associate chair of microbiology and immunology at the University of Michigan Medical School and chair of the committee that wrote the interim report.

Bry «has developed a highly innovative and nationally recognized system to use the biological samples obtained routinely in the course of clinical care as the basis of population - based discovery research,» Isaac «Zak» Kohane, director of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and professor of pediatrics and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School, writes in an e-mail.

«Our results indicate that systematic testing for anti-androgenic activity of currently used pesticides is urgently required,» wrote the scientists from University of London's Centre for Toxicology, led by Professor Andreas Kortenkamp.

Choo and his co-authors (two former students of his, Jian Peng and Sam Detchon, and Helen Ashman, associate professor of information technology and mathematical sciences at the University of South Australia) used writing samples from the most prolific online commenters on various news web sites, and discovered that many people espousing their opinions online were actually all linked to a few singular writers with multiple accounts.

«In the 1970s, Kip Thorne [Caltech's Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus] and others wrote papers saying that these pulsars should be emitting gravity waves that are nearly perfectly periodic, so we're thinking hard about how to use these techniques on a gram - scale object to reduce quantum noise in detectors, thus increasing the sensitivity to pick up on those gravity waves,» Schwab says.

«The new guideline uses the highest quality scientific evidence to focus treatment of blood cholesterol on those likely to benefit most,» said Neil J. Stone, MD, Bonow professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and chair of the expert panel that wrote the new guideline.

An analysis of more than 14 million reviews on RateMyProfessors.com, where students write anonymous reviews of their professors, found that students most often use the words «brilliant» and «genius» to describe male professors and in academic disciplines in which women and African - Americans are underrepresented.

In this study, published recently in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Laura Bray, assistant professor of education, explored how educators wrote, used and conceptualized the role of IEPs for students with specific learning disabilities within inclusive general education settings.

Writing in a linked Comment, Professor Philip Cowen, MRC Clinical Scientist, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, says: «The key observation that might eventually justify the use of a drug like psilocybin in treatment - resistant depression is demonstration of sustained benefit in patients who previously have experienced years of symptoms despite conventional treatments, which makes longer - term outcomes particularly important.

This year Richard Freeman, an economics professor at Harvard University and director of the Science and Engineering Workforce Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research, along with Wei Huang, a Harvard economics Ph.D. candidate, examined the ethnic identity of the authors of 1.5 million scientific papers written between 1985 and 2008 using Thomson Reuters's Web of Science, a comprehensive database of published research.

A research group led by Jonathan Aldrich, associate professor in the Institute for Software Research (ISR), is developing a programming language called Wyvern that makes it possible to construct programs using a variety of targeted, domain - specific languages, such as SQL for querying databases or HTML for constructing Web pages, as sublanguages, rather than writing the entire program using a general purpose language.

In a 7 - year study at a Boston elementary school where half the students are English Language Learners (ELL), setting a school - wide goal of improved writing skills and using a genres - based instructional method improved the performance of ELL students on state and internal assessments, according to Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Maria E. Brisk, who presents her findings today at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting.

Professor Avi Loeb of Harvard University wrote about using Red Dots data to motivate projects such as the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative and search for extra-terrestrial life beyond the solar system.

Professor Curry writes that the idea of scrapping using the impact factor in assessments has yet to «gain credibility» even at institutions that have signed the declaration.

In the booklet «Silver Colloids» Professor Ronald Gibbs wrote «The size of the particles in the colloidal silver suspensions we use for health purposes is very important.

In his booklet «Silver Colloids», Professor Ronald Gibbs wrote «The size of the particles in the colloidal silver suspensions we use for health purposes is very important.

However, in the booklet «Silver Colloids» Professor Ronald Gibbs wrote «The size of the particles in the colloidal silver suspensions we use for health purposes is very important.

In the booklet «Silver Colloids» Professor Gibbs wrote «The size of the particles in the colloidal silver suspensions we use for health purposes is very important.

I spent long hours starring at a computer screen and phone screen as a pharmacist / professor and blogger using social media / writing blog posts.

Eco was a longtime professor at Europe's oldest university, the University of Bologna, and an expert in the field of semiotics who wrote more than 20 nonfiction books about how signs and symbols can be used to interpret cultural history.

Written and directed by Angela Robinson, Professor Marston uses the DISC behavior types as a structure to tell the story of how Bill (Luke Evans) and his wife Elizabeth (Rebecca Hall), met a young student named Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcote) who changed their lives forever.

Teachers and professors are learning now that more students than they realized are using so - called «essay writing services» to get their work done.

«My professors immediately assigned us writing assignments asking us to use multiple forms of evidence to support our arguments — just like at Envision.

To the extent that reduced student outcomes would reflect poorly on them, they would also have an incentive to provide the resources teachers, students and parents might need to use the textbook or software effectively,» writes Professor Thomas Kane.

In the Wall Street Journal, Melissa Korn writes about some effects of college professors banning laptop use in class: students complaining about hand cramps and an inability to read their own handwritten notes.

Remember when your professor used to write lecture notes on a whiteboard, a chalkboard, or even on transparencies using an overhead projector?

«Since most high school teachers feel that preparation for college physics is a major goal, they often use college texts or ones written by college professors,» Sadler said.

They will then write their own letter from Headteacher, Professor Dolores Umbridge, to Mr and Mrs Weasley using the information provided.

But this desire is fraught with risk; Angela Duckworth, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania who has written extensively about grit, has cautioned that «we're nowhere near ready — and perhaps never will be — to use feedback on character as a metric for judging the effectiveness of teachers and schools.»

Reading, Writing,» Rithmetic,» Rogramming Slate, 4/15/15 «Karen Brennan is a Harvard University education professor and founder of ScratchEd, an online community of teachers using Scratch, a novice - friendly computer code developed at MIT.

Professor Richards asked us, on our very first assignment, opening week, to read Hugh Walpole's reduction of verbiage to a mere 500 words and to write and tell a tale using only those verbs and nouns.

Professor of Drama Education at the University of Reading, Andy Kempe, offers his advice for using different dramatic approaches to explore ideas, texts and issues when writing a play.

We have all spent time in a classroom staring at a professor writing on a board and wondering how, by any stretch of the imagination, the concept we are busily cramming into our brains will ever be of use to us.

Weber also uses the editorial to hype a new report he wrote with Rutgers Professor Bruce Baker (his dissertation advisor), published by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC) called «School District Reform in Newark and Impact of the Newark Education Reforms.