Archive for the 'General' Category

Regular comments for college papers in APA format/style.

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

APA format requires the use of a title page, in-text cites, and a references page. For more, please see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
The title of the paper should be centered at the top of the first page — after the title page and abstract (if you use one).
Title page
Every scholarly paper should have a title page. [...]

Plagiarism (AKA cut and paste term papers)

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

In a recent class we were discussing this topic and a student observed that copying someone’s stuff was not at all uncommon in their facet of the CJ profession (the real world). In a three week period, I’ve been in a similar conversation with professionals in three separate (though related) fields, regarding writing various proposals [...]

Branding

Monday, June 19th, 2006

Have you ever heard of “docendo discimus?” You’ll see it on the bottom of many of my (original) emails. I have used a “tagline” on my email “signature” for many years. It represents, in a few short words, what message you hope to convey to the recipient (and anyone who receives your message as forwarded [...]

There is a space

Monday, June 19th, 2006

I wanted to share a nugget that I have been thinking about recently.
Dr. Stephen Covey (see the 8th Habit) often quotes Viktor E. Frankl . . .
He was a survivor of the Holocaust and authored “Man’s Search For Meaning”
Frankl said . . . “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is [...]

Disjuncture

Monday, June 19th, 2006

I am reading “Human Learning,” by Peter Jarvis.  He describes the optimal “zone” in which adults learn as “disjuncture” — when time seems to stop . . .when our biographical repertoire is no longer sufficient to cope automatically with our situation . . . where we have a tension with our environment.

Organizing

Monday, June 19th, 2006

Been “organizing” my day lately, closed out a few classes (tests, paper grading, etc.) and building on my margin (see McClusky’s theory of margin).  I’m in a dilemma regarding my move toward higher ed.  I am scheduled to attend a doctoral program in a couple weeks, but some of the parameters changed.  In any case, [...]

starting up!

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

Opened the accounts – been meaning to for a while. I have tons of stuff going on (not shocking) but that should slow in the next couple days — at least for a couple weeks.
I’m in the organization process – my main site is at carterfsmith.com