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21 septembre 2014

How Can Colleges Shape Campus Values and Social Life?

By Rebecca Chopp. I prefer the term “thrive” because I feel “success” is too easily interpreted in the context of grades, honors, awards, and other forms of external recognition. The word “thrive” draws attention to how each individual flourishes within a community context and lets us pay attention to the development of social and moral character as well as knowledge and wisdom. More...

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21 septembre 2014

What’s Not to Like About ‘Like’? Lots

By Linda Hall. Students clearly tend to like “like.” But can they be weaned? First, though, let’s check in with a few grown-ups.
John McWhorter, in a New York Times article (“Like, Degrading the Language? No Way”), argues that the word “often functions to acknowledge objection while underlining one’s own point. … What’s actually happening is that casual American speech is, in its ‘like’ fetish, more polite than it was before.” More...

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21 septembre 2014

Confessions of a Gen-Ed Junkie

By Paul Hanstedt. I’m just going to come right out and say it: I like teaching gen ed. I like it a lot. In fact, I like it more than my major classes. OK, so if my dean calls, I’m going to say I didn’t really mean that. But honestly—just between me and you, Chronicle readers—I do. More...

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21 septembre 2014

Updating the Three-Envelope Method for the Digital Age

By Natalie Houston. So you’ve written an article and sent it off to be considered for publication in a journal. You wait. And wait. And wait. And then when you eventually get a response, perhaps it’s a rejection, or a revise and resubmit. Read more...

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21 septembre 2014

Games in the Classroom Reading List

By Anastasia Salter. Last week on Twitter, I was asked for some recommendation for critical readings on games and learning. There are lots of enthusiasts for games in the classroom out there (myself included, of course) and tons of great places to start if you’re interested in learning more about bringing games into education. Read more...

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21 septembre 2014

Open Thread Wednesday: About Those Software Updates

By Jason B. Jones. At some point at or after 1pm in their local time zone, iOS users will be able to download and install the latest version of the system software. (Well, most users, anyway.) And while I’m sure ProfHacker will cover the utility of different features in the coming weeks–and while Android users will comment, ‘meh–we’ve had that feature for years’–I wanted to focus on a different question today. Read more...

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21 septembre 2014

Truth in Adjectivizing

By William Germano. As sure as students return to campus in autumn, this is the time of year when Starbucks releases its Pumpkin Spice Latte, a beverage that seems to have a particularly vocal following. I’ve ordered it myself. It’s sweet and scented and, unless you hold the cream, very rich. More...

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21 septembre 2014

The Vortex of Authorial Avoidance

By Lucy Ferriss. Welcome to the vortex, the tourbillion, where we turn and turn in the widening gyre of authorial avoidance of whatever truly dire error we may have committed in the penning of our novel. Step right into the typeset proofs. There—feel that hot wind blowing at your neck? It’s urging you to seize on something—anything, so long as it is minute, fixable, of no importance to anyone save you and the managing editor, to obsess over until the deadline for returning the galleys. More...

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21 septembre 2014

Being a Subject

By Geoffrey Pullum. As in previous fall semesters, I’m teaching (jointly with my colleague Nik Gisborne) a course that tries to unite modern modes of thinking about language with the description of English grammar. Just basic, ordinary grammar of the sort you would think might be taught in grade school (and once was). More...

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21 septembre 2014

‘-y’ Not?

By Ben Yagoda. This all went down in the last month:

Facebook comment: "As I know from my rednecky upstate second hometown. ... "
Email from a friend: "This morning I was thinking that my hairdresser is getting so Jesus-y with me."
Headline from the Baltimore City Paper: "College Guys, Stop Being So Rapey." More...

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