My Clips- Cause of plane crash west of Bozeman under investigation, pilot pronounced dead at scene August 31, 2010
- The man who wanted train horns August 16, 2010
- Money well spent? August 15, 2010
- Local telecom company gets $64 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural Gallatin County August 5, 2010
- Montana Opticom receives $64 million in stimulus money for rural broadband August 4, 2010
- AT&T to replace Alltel in Montana within a year June 25, 2010
- Bozeman twin looks to scale namesake peak: K2 June 21, 2010
- High water claims Amsterdam Road bridge June 12, 2010
- Trio of veteran Belgrade teachers retiring June 7, 2010
- MSU robot digger wins NASA competition May 29, 2010
Monthly Archives: September 2006
The “Student Writing Problem”
In composition, though, despite all the blame that has been laid, we are no nearer to understanding just what is wrong with student writing, the face of the problem. Instructors could name specific errors, such as tense shifts or pronoun confusion, or vague errors, like a lack of commitment or poor idea development; yet no [...]
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More About Student Writing
FYI: This is a response to a paper submitted in one of our classes, so if I mention names that you don’t know, it’s probably the author who inspired my rant. But the remedial system has its problems too. It creates another unnecessary division between students in the university. On a practical level, remedial courses must [...]
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Digital Newspapers
On the if:book blog over at the Institute for the Future of the Book, Ben Vershbow wrote a post on the freedom of Internet sites — and in this case I mean the kind of freedom where you don’t have to pay anything. He points to the New York Times putting most of their columnists [...]
Hypervigilance and James Frey
Hope you saved the receipt. Readers who purchased James Frey’s book A Million Little Pieces before its publisher, Random House, admitted that it was fictitious will be eligible for a full refund. As reported on Radaronline.com: The refund is in response to a class-action lawsuit brought by readers in several states who claimed they were [...]
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Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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