Inevitably, a professor will assign a PowerPoint presentation for you to put together. Slide shows are all well and good (and slightly more interesting than writing an essay), but I’ve seen many that lack a certain coherence. Or maybe I’m just old-fashioned and like to think that a slide show that’s meant […]

Posted on February 19th, 2007 by Joy
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Many of us run to Google or Wikipedia when we’re assigned a research paper. Yes, we know that Google/Wikipedia/Yahoo/MSN Search are the roots of all academic evil (including plagiarism and bad resources). But isn’t there some way to just search better? Actually, yes. Yes there is.
Utilize your school’s database subscriptionsMany universities […]

Posted on February 7th, 2007 by Joy
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