{"id":236,"date":"2007-04-10T15:21:43","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T15:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=236"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:43","slug":"for-my-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"For my students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nMichael Leddy, whose blog <a href=\"http:\/\/mleddy.blogspot.com\/\">Orange Crate Art<\/a> is well worth reading regularly, also write a great monthly column on writing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/\">lifehack.org<\/a>.  His most recent column on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/articles\/communication\/how-to-punctuate-a-sentence.html\">How to Punctuate a Sentence<\/a>&#8221; is something you all should read. Mastering proper punctuation is a must for you at this stage, especially if you&#8217;re an English major. If you&#8217;re unclear about how to use commas or semicolons, there&#8217;s no better time in your life than right now to figure those out once and for all.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI also recommend Leddy&#8217;s columns on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/articles\/lifehack\/advice-for-students-how-to-unstuff-a-sentence.html\">How to unstuff a sentence<\/a>,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/articles\/lifehack\/granularity-for-students.html\">Granularity for students<\/a>, and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/articles\/lifehack\/advice-for-students-beware-of-thesaurus.html\">Beware of Thesaurus<\/a>.&#8221; The latter is especially helpful.  Take, for instance, how he ends the article:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"color:#008000;\"><em>What student-writers need to realize is that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not ornate vocabulary or word-substitution that makes good writing. Clarity, concision, and organization are far more important in engaging and persuading a reader to find merit in what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re saying. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re tempted to use the thesaurus the next time you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re working on an essay, consider what is about to happen to this sentence:<\/p>\n<p>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re lured to utilize the thesaurus on the subsequent occasion you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re toiling on a treatise, mull over what just transpired to this stretch.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Leddy, whose blog Orange Crate Art is well worth reading regularly, also write a great monthly column on writing at lifehack.org. His most recent column on &#8220;How to Punctuate a Sentence&#8221; is something you all should read. Mastering proper punctuation is a must for you at this stage, especially if you&#8217;re an English major. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practices","category-teachingadvising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}