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Writing for Academe: A Series on Dialogue, Mentoring, and Motivation

Karen Hoelscher and Carmen Werder on finding joy and success in writing for the academy.
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The Life of the Mind

As a writer and professor, Tom Moriarty "works" while he surfs online, reads books and just thinks -- though his wife is skeptical.
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To PhD or Not to PhD

Aliens, pumpkin pie, birds, solar energy, language, coffee, football, traveling, new shoes, Kon-Tiki, walking my dog, weather, doing P90X...
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Ask the Administrator: When Tuesday Becomes Monday...

An occasional correspondent writes: I realize it takes some gymnastics to make the number of class meetings equal out what...
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My Learning Mistakes

I'm in the learning business, which makes my tendency to slip into "schoolyard folk wisdom, or empty theorizing" about learning...
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Math Geek Mom: Existence Theorems

As I work proofs with my Calculus and Higher Geometries students, I often run across the Greek symbol that, in...
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TED gets Linked

One of the most significant annual conferences each year (actually two -- one in the USA and one across the...
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Long Distance Mom: Jane Addams

September 6th was the 150th birthday of writer, philosopher and political activist Jane Addams --the first woman to receive the...