David Brooks has written an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times called History for Dollars in which he advocates for studying the humanities, and it has me nogging. Brooks argues that studying the humanities will make a person more employable because they will be able to read and write well, will deeply understand human [...]
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My Third And Final Major Was English
Posted in Blogs, Books, Employment, Goals, Higher Education, Language, Learning, Liberal Arts, Life, Literature, Money, Professional Development, reading, Reflection, Work, Writing, tagged blog, education, Employment, highereducation, integration, knowledge, Language, Learning, liberalarts, Life, Literature, problemsolving, reflection, Work, Writing on June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Verb: To Blog
Posted in Blogs, Writing, tagged blog, reflection, Writing on May 4, 2010 | 68 Comments »
Chris Brogan asked me today “How are you using your blogging?” (Ok, so to be honest, he didn’t ask me personally. He wrote a blog post with this question, and I happened to read it. But I took the question personally, as if he had asked me, personally.) And I had to stop and think [...]
Read Good Stuff
Posted in Blogs, reading, Writing, tagged blog, reading, Writing on March 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This is from one of my newest favorite blogs called Indexed. Every weekday the author posts a picture of an index card with a graph or chart that represents a way that she makes sense of things. Some are quite funny, and some, like this one, are simply right. If you have time to kill [...]
On Plagiarism (Cont.)
Posted in Academic Honesty, Higher Education, Writing, tagged highereducation, plagiarism, Writing on February 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
And while I am on the topic of plagiarism, let me share this visual perspective of plagiarism from “What Plagiarism Looks Like“
Re-Read, And Then Re-Read Again
Posted in PLA, Writing, tagged highereducation, PLA, Writing on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week I am reading PLA essays and lots (and lots and lots) of them! For those of you in the midst of revising and editing your essays, let me offer this nugget of writing wisdom: “If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by [...]
She’s Ready For What’s Next
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, PLA, Writing, tagged adultlearners, education, knowledge, Marylhurst, PLA, Writing on July 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Congrats to Debra Giannini! Debra just completed her 15-credit Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio. Debra is an Interdisciplinary Studies major with concentrations in Psychology and Expressive Therapies. The topics she wrote for are: BIO 165 – Alternatives in Health and Healing BIO 167 – Nutritional Science CHS 354 – Environment, Culture, and Food CCM 342 – [...]
A Gift That Keeps On Giving
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Learning, Life, PLA, Writing, tagged adultlearners, highereducation, knowledge, Learning, Marylhurst, PLA, Writing on June 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Ty Wells, a Business & Leadership major, just submitted his Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio totaling 27 credits. Ty’s experience resides mostly in the food and hospitality industry, and he was able to use those learning experiences to write PLA essays for the following courses: Conflict Management Public Presentations Team Building Foodservice Organizations Management Fundamentals Introduction [...]
When The Realm Of Possibility Nears
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Learning, PLA, Writing, tagged adultlearners, Learning, PLA, Writing on June 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My colleague Jackie Fowler loaned me a book called Fingerpainting on the Moon: Writing and Creativity as a Path to Freedom, by Peter Levitt. Two gems from it stood out to me, so let me share them here. The first gem speaks to how we sometimes feel when we begin something new that will require [...]
The PLA Happy Dance
Posted in Adult Learners, Learning, PLA, Writing, tagged adultlearners, dance, highereducation, Learning, Marylhurst, PLA, Writing on May 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Learning to walk set you free. Learning to dance gives you the greatest freedom of all: to express with your whole self the person you are. -Melissa Hayden Here in the PLA department, we like to dance — usually more figuratively than literally, but sometimes we literally dance as well, depending on who’s looking. There [...]
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