by Laura Mathews, Statistics This semester I was asked to TA for the writing-intensive capstone course for undergraduate students. This was a new experience for me, as I have not had any formal statistical writing instruction and was unsure of how to teach students how to write in a new discipline. My background is in…
by John Lane, Philosophy Most academic papers are not very funny. I know because I’ve read them. The stereotype of academic writing is that it’s more akin to a bizarre linguistic purgatory that hates you and delights in your suffering than it is to a real intellectual discussion. The fact that it’s also unfunny doesn’t…
by Jenna Wilson, Chemistry Time management is something that I, and many other students, either struggle, or have struggled, with. In fact, I, and many other instructors, have seen that procrastination is something like a plague upon our students. Whenever I go in to read my students’ papers, over half of papers were turned in…