Archive for the 'Learning' 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. [...]

Outside the box!

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

So I was minding my own business, and I happened across a term that conjured up thoughts of stature-challenged horse-riders competing for first place.  I had never heard of Google-Jockeys before (thanks Educause).  It makes me wonder how hard it would be to do in a live (synchronous) online class . . ..
“A Google jockey [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]