Kate Turbain explains in her book, A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: 7th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007, that you can’t use an author’s exact words without either putting them in quotation marks or using a block quotation. Turbain also warns against citing with ALMOST exact wo... Read more...

Editor or Translater If the publication you are documenting also has an editor, a translator or both- in addition to the author, you would include that information after the title of the book. If the publication does have both an editor and a translator, include the information in the same order as it appears in the actual publication.   In notes the entry should display as: 1-6-Yves Bonnefoy, New and Selected Poems, ... Read more...

A Student's Tool kit   This article is the first of a series of hopefully helpful articles that will comprise a student's toolkit. This particular article is a student’s quick guide to the Modern Language Association (MLA) Bibliography format as well as the Chicago Manual of Style format. The examples displayed are for single, double, and more than two author entries in bibliographic format. The note number appears first, then the author�... Read more...

Bradford A. Rogers   Man's love for music seems to be nearly universal, a virtual given assumption of human nature. It is a unique and endlessly expressive language of tones that has bridged cultural, linguistic, and geographical boundaries for centuries. It is a language that has served mankind invariably as the voice of entire communities or that of an intimate personal identity. Most may not be able to point to the specific moment when they first discovered their own appre... Read more...

For starters, you get an education! Even though we are bombarded by media and people famous for well, absolutely nothing- it sends an unfortunate message to everyone that they need those 15 minutes of fame to be successful in life.  This approach to success is really wildly off the mark and has little to do with how the world actually works. If you turn off the reality television shows and tune into the news channels, you’re bound to see a turbulent world in need of individuals who can nav... Read more...

Guest Editor: Bradford A. Rogers   My sister, Hannah, began practicing ballet very early in her life, and for as long as I can remember she has been praised for her talent in the art. Her impeccable technique, indomitable work-ethic, and advantageous physiology have all conspired toward the adulation and success she has earned in the course of her short career. It wasn't too long before she began receiving offers to study at prestigious ballet academies acros... Read more...

If you are going back to school online and need help affording a computer or internet access you can either go through your school, or access the companies directly. The online university should have specifications for student discounts. The campus bookstore is a good place to start and depending on the program of study that you pursue you need to make sure you get the specific computer and software requirements.  For example, if you are majoring in a program of study that is computer intens... Read more...

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Online institutions must take notice of the patterns of non-traditional learners attending both traditional brick and mortar and online schools.  Attrition of students, especially in the first year of college continues to rise. Institutional enrollment numbers at face-to-face institutions provide evidence that students are no longer graduating in the traditional four-year period but are on a much longer path to getting their degrees. Educational leaders and policy makers fear higher rates of... Read more...

Is it true that a market driven, consumerist ideology and language dominates the discourse over online learning and distance education?  Is control placed in the hands of the administrative elite seeking to enhance institutional revenue? Does market driven language shift the focus of higher level education to just another product deliver... Read more...

I am a migraineur. I didn’t know that’s what it was called, but now I do thanks to the novelist Siri Hustvedt and her book, The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves. I also didn’t know that when I lived in Brooklyn for 4 years on 4th Street in Park Slope, I resided 2 blocks away from Siri and her husband the well known writer Paul Aus... Read more...

I happen to believe in the elegant basics of an education. As a writer, sophistication can emerge from blending discursive topics through their boundaries. If done for a story or a poem those associations or blending can be appropriately labeled, “creativity.” My creativity has brought together such diverse and far reaching associations between topics that I am often teased.  I’ll defer to Keats’ belief that poetry itself is bringing together heaven and earth in a “cage form.”... Read more...

"Creativity is about making connections." -Steve Jobs    What are we talking about in Lesson One?  I’m not looking for online education to become a radical regime. However, what is long overdue is a conversation about curriculum critical awareness that needs to include an in depth discussion about education methodology. For profit online institutions have long been criticized about the quality of their programs in comparison to traditional brick and mortar schools. Howeve... Read more...

Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian scholar coined the expressions, “the medium is the message” and “global village” that prophetically predicted the World Wide Web almost 30 years before it was invented.  Although the professor was a controversial figure, his clarity of how the medium constructs the possibilities of the message has held a significant truth about how we perceive information. Our medium, or more specifically, our advances in technology are cultivating consumer participation... Read more...

A Online Degree Navigator Book Review Moon, Youngme. 2010. Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd. New York, New York: Crown Publishing.   There have been so many people asking about this book. There has been a stir of excitement naturally because as far as most advertising goes, it’s all about keeping up with the Jones’- which makes every brand, pretty much... Read more...

In 1998 I finished my Masters Degree. My thesis examined how hypertext is posited to be what Jacques Derrida understood as, “deconstructed text.”  Essentially, since hypertext would allow you to jump from page to page around the internet, it was at the minimum a physical representation of texts that had equal authority making the “reader” the “writer” resulting in a de-centered narrative that is more democratic. Readers have always used a variety of texts to support their effor... Read more...

Frye, Northrop. 1964. The Education Imagination. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.   The Educated Imagination by Northrop Frye was published in 1964, but like any great book, the writing is timeless.  Writing, like any other discipline, must be informed by wha... Read more...

A serotonergic, or serotonnergic agent, is any chemical which works by enhancing the effects of serotonin in the central nervous system. Migraines are said to be serotnergic, or related to the neurotransmitter serotonin. A synapse is serotonergic if it uses serotonin as a neurotransmitter.  Migraine (from the Greek word hemi, meaning half, and kranion meaning skull) is a horrible ailment characterized by severe headaches, and nausea. It is about three times more common in women than in men... Read more...

We are living in a materialistic, anti-intellectual and pseudo-spiritual society and it’s only getting worse. Between Oprah’s promotions of, “The Secret” to Gwyneth Paltrow’s hyper-materialistic website, “GOOP” we are in danger of trying to live out our life through trite sound bites and consumerism. Of course the promoters of all things material would simply tell you not to tune in or log onto these places of commerce, but why are they exempt? They put themselves out there with... Read more...