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I'm an academic but I'm also a blogger. For me, these are separate identities. I write formal papers that I spend months trying to find the language to properly express what's going on. [On my blog] I write in an off-the-cuff manner, trying to paint impressions rather than nuance. Unfortunately, many feel as though a blog must be formal -
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Over the last six months, i've noticed an increasing number of press articles about how high school teens are leaving MySpace for Facebook. That's only partially true. There is indeed a change taking place, but it's not a shift so much as a fragmentation. Until recently, American teenagers were flocking to MySpace. The picture is now being blurred. Some teens are flocking to MySpace. And some teens are flocking to Facebook. Which go where gets kinda sticky, because it seems to primarily have to do with socio-economic class. -
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undergraduate course at the University of Southern California called PWNED: Everyone on Campus is a Copyright Criminal. The class was open to anyone on or off campus, and we podcasted the lectures. The students edited a class blog and were expected to improve Wikipedia posts relevant to the class. For the end of semester, each student turned in a final project that related the course material to their lives and major areas of study. -
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In this paper, we draw on follow-up interviews with the families originally analyzed in Annette Lareau’s book Unequal Childhoods to evaluate how transition decisions—and especially, the choice of whether or not to attend college after high school—are actually made. -
1voteThis is a quick-witted piece about the lack of adverb use in modern English. Wow, grammar editorials in the newspaper? I should have paid attention in middle school English class...
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1voteWebnote is a tool for taking notes on your computer. It allows you to quickly write something down during a meeting, class, or any other time that you have a web browser available.
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