Master of Liberal Arts

August 23, 2007

NEW READINGS on Research & Writing


Making sense : a student's guide to research and writing
Making sense : a student's guide to research and writing : engineering and the technical sciences
How to write a lot : a practical guide to productive academic writing
How to do a research project : a guide for undergraduate students
Writing history essays : a student's guide
Writing to teach; writing to learn in higher education
Good essay writing : a social sciences guide
Engaged writers and dynamic disciplines : research on the academic writing life
Visual research methods : image, society, and representation
The sociology student writer's manual
Researching and writing : a portable guide

See also:
EndNote Web Tutorials

June 08, 2007

ONLINE VIDEO: thinkers & their thoughts


The TedTalks conference series is invitation-only, but the videos are available online for anyone to watch or download. Browse the hundreds of talks by discipline (technology, entertainment, design, business, science, culture, arts, & global issues) or choose from some of the most interesting linked below.

>> Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
>> Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
>> Al Seckel says our brains are mis-wired
>> Dean Ornish on the world's killer diet
>> Robert Neuwirth on our "shadow cities"
>> Stewart Brand on squatter cities
>> Stefan Sagmeister on happy design
>> Richard Dawkins on militant atheism
>> Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce
>> Jeff Hawkins on how brain science will change computing
>> Al Gore on averting climate crisis
>> Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child
>> Bob Thurman on Buddha & the internet
>> Seth Godin on sliced bread
>> Michael Shermer on believing strange things
>> Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning
>> Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us
>> Filmmaker/Artist Gregory Colbert on "Ashes and Snow"
>> James Watson on how he discovered DNA
>> Phil Borges on endangered cultures
>> Jane Goodall on what separates us from the apes

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