Group items tagged Earth - Radney's English Group

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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 22 Feb 10 - Cached

Calvin: Why do you suppose we're here? Hobbes: Because we walked here. Calvin: No, I mean, here on Earth? Hobbes: Because Earth can support life. Calvin: No, I mean why are we anywhere? Why do we exist? Hobbes: Because we were born. Calvin: Forget it. Hobbes: I will, thank you.
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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 19 Feb 10 - Cached

The Clean Air Council produces my favorite image demonstrating what American paper waste looks like: "Each year, Americans trash enough office paper to build a 12-foot wall from Los Angeles to New York City."
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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 26 Oct 09 - Cached

What sort of voice do you use when you write a blog post? Do you have an informal or personal tone to your writing? Or do you prefer the more formal structured approaches?
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Bryson is a journalist. Yet even for me, twice a Science graduate, his ‘voice’ immediately captures my interest in the Science he writes about. He speaks as if he is talking with me, not talking directly at me.
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Is there a single genre that is appropriate to writing blog posts?Or should the genre be selected according to the topic of the post? Could genre be chosen to address a particular target group within the readership of the blog?
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shared by J.Randolph Radney on 31 Oct 09 - Cached

I gained the respect of my teachers, probably because of this attribute of asking questions, for I certainly wasn’t a model student.
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Good teachers admire learners who ask pertinent questions.
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Asking a question offers a teacher the opportunity to fulfil that so-often-difficult-to-attain goal of the pedagogue. The goal is to teach relevantly. While it’s true that learners tend to engage more in learning when they interact during a ‘lesson’, I’m not so sure that speaking up or even asking a question is necessarily exclusive for learning to occur.
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I’m not entirely opposed to the suggestion that questioning is a way to learn. Nor am I questioning the idea that learners will learn nothing if they don’t ask questions. My hunch is that questions are asked in the mind all the time. The trick of learning relevantly lies in asking the right questions.
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