Problematical Punctuation Marks
Sunday, August 24th, 2008Do you ever feel like going out on a limb and using brackets instead of parentheses? Would you know when it is appropriate? What about using a dash instead of…
Do you ever feel like going out on a limb and using brackets instead of parentheses? Would you know when it is appropriate? What about using a dash instead of…
U.S News and World Report has released their most recent rankings of colleges and universities in the United States. The rankings offer few surprises other than a little jockeying for…
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This week, a 12 year-old student was suspended from her Missouri school for dyeing her hair pink. School officials say that Amanda Robbins, a 7th-grader, had been…
This week’s spotlight takes us to the town of Conway, Arkansas, where we find the 160-acre, flower-filled campus of Hendrix College. If you have negative stereotypes of the Bible Belt,…
Writing papers is a never-ending task in graduate school. Just as you finish one, another assignment (or two or three) pop up. Save yourself a trip to the library, or…
The New York Times reported this week that students at 31 New York City high schools were offered $1,000 dollars if they could get high scores on Advanced Placement exams….
The culture of graduate school leads many PhDs to believe that a career in academia is the best choice and the only choice. Not so. Many PhDs leave academia and…