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Different Research and Documentation Styles

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The NY Times has a blog called “The Choice”, which aims to demystify “college admission and aid” in the United States. This week they are running a Question & Answer Session with a college counsellor.
I thought you might be interested in reading this, since many of you are probably starting to think about which schools [...]

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Essay questions

How long should your introduction and your conclusion each be?
What is the single most important element of the introduction? Where should this element be placed in the introduction? What form (question or statement) should it take? Why?
What should the first [...]

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The film that came up in G-Period:

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…yes, I’m posting this because I think you should watch non-Hollywood, non-mainstream cinema.
It using some interesting cinematographic techniques, e.g. a blurry image for a part of the film, close-range (rather than wide-shot) image, both to give the viewer an experience of what the protagonist perceived after his stroke. [...]

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Essay Titles

Questions to choose from for your upcoming essay (due March 23, 2009):
Number of words: 1200-1600.
1) We are more likely to be mistaken in our generalizations than in our particular observations.” Do you agree? (May 2003)
2) “What distinguishes Areas of Knowledge from one another is not how ideas are generated, but how they are evaluated.” Do you agree? [...]

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Order of Presentations

F-Period:
Wednesday: Glori/Mario; Dani Viquez
Thursday: Glori, Ana Vic, Dani
Friday: Pierre, Adrian
Mon: Juan, Cata 
G-Period:
Wednesday: Bob, Valeria, Ernesto
Thursday: Joaquín, Clement & Jaime
Friday: Diana & Gloriana
Monday: Kristel & Mariel
Tuesday: Steffan, Constanza & Paola 

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