Archive for the ‘Tools/Tips/Tricks’ Category
Saturday, October 11th, 2008
First in a (no doubt about it) ongoing series.
When I had to do my first literature review, and my first big grad school paper, last fall, I asked my mentor, The Indomitable Cassidy, for her advice. Here's what she said:
I actually like starting with a "haphazard search," but I prefer ...
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
The following are comments I left on the high-fun personal blog PigPog. Back in 2005, Michael wrote a post on storing and retrieving nuggets of information. This invited a couple of unedited brain-dumps from your Humble Correspondent.
I'm posting them here because my original links to the post were broken after ...
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
Advice for the creative writer, yes. But the student? My manager is taking a summer class and his teacher told the class, "Don't write down what I say. Write down what you feel about what I say." Interesting advice for a note-taker who's thinking about regurgitating the content for the ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
...goes the old Yiddish proverb. And it works for the spring semester as well as for real life.
Using a simple 1-inch binder and two sets of five tabs were fantastic in helping me organize my two classes' syllabi, assignments, special handouts, and so on. I could carry it with me ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Although UNC requires incoming freshmen to buy a laptop computer, and although some SILS classes require a laptop (I'm thinking here of the database or programming courses), by and large, I've found that I haven't really needed a laptop on campus. I prefer taking notes by hand on paper, and ...
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