New answers tagged academic-writing
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Yale Digital Content reports that it holds:
William of Ockham, Summa Logicae, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Manuscript on paper (thick, coarse, some deckle edges; watermarks indistinguishable) of William of Ockham, Summa logicae. With Walter Burley, De puritate artis logicae tractatus brevior, ...
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I had a professor who did a synthesis lecture using fruit. She brought in a brown paper grocery bag and started pulling out produce one at a time. The purpose was to come up with a general rule to determine if something was a fruit or a vegetable.
Apple: Fruit
Peas: Vegetable
Lettuce: Vegetable
Rule 1: Vegetables are green
Carrot: Vegetable
Potato: ...
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I can think of an exercise which might help - although I'm not sure how efficient it would be - if the students would be able to solve it. Chose a set of sources for them and give them a task that forces cross-referencing, comparing and binding them.
For example, give the students a task of examining and proving or disproving a claim in source A (which you ...
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Way back in 10th grade, when we were learning how to do research papers on the back of a coal shovel, our teacher had us take all our notes on 3x5 cards. We had to submit them as part of the grade — she actually went around with a bag and we had to toss in our rubber-banded stack of cards.
Edit to clarify: Each card had one note or thought on it: ...
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