Posts filed under 'Pedagogy'

(Humorous) Graphs and Charts

They Are Out To Get You Cat Proximity Suspect Was Found Without Pants Enrollment vs. Unemployment Rate Mental Pictures Moral Relativity The Economic Meltdown: Should You Be Concerned? Regrets/Kissing It’s Around Here Somewhere Graduate Student Work Output 16-Hour Days, Either Way Escalators Grad Student Motivation Level Claims of Supernatural Powers In each of these, the […]

Continue Reading February 16th, 2010

Working With Quantitative Visual Evidence

The bulk of your thesis projects will likely include some kind of quantitative visual evidence–that is, a graph or chart illustrating the statistical data which either supports your claims or shapes your research questions. Finding The Best Mode of Presentation for Your Data When determining how best to present what information you have, The Craft […]

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Working with Photographs and other Qualitative Visual Evidence

In research writing in the humanities (and to some extent in the social sciences), the use of photographs, or other qualitative visual evidence (as opposed to the quantifiable data found in charts and graphs) requires that you have a very clear sense of a given item’s relevance not only to one section of your text, […]

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PowerPoint and Presentation Suggestions

Lindsey’s Six Suggestions For Your Next Presentation You need less text than you think! If a 20-minute conference talk is about 7-10 pages of double-spaced Times New Roman 12-point text with standard margins, then a 5-minute talk is a maximum of 2.5 pages. This means you have to condense your material into key points and […]

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Where (and How) The Work Gets Done

When I teach, one of the things I try to instill in my students is an ability to reflect critically on their own processes—how they write, how they read, how they think, how they learn. I try to learn about and think through my own processes, too. Turning an eye (or both) back onto the […]

Continue Reading September 21st, 2009

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