#Essays

bintelharam

bintelharam

i had the opportunity when i was a sophomore in college to work on 100 years of beauty for a content web company called cut. i had written 2 essays

Jeff Hirsch

WorkLawProf

Labor & employment scholars: @sachinspandya and I are organizing an open-source web-based book on COVID-related work law issues and we need your help! More accurately, the thousands of people whose

elexus jionde

Lexual__

Stan culture can be theorized as a reaction to the fall of religious influence.Let's talk about Nicki Minaj, stans, and celebrity idolatry. The full 19-minute video is available here:https://youtu.be/_WK4inljCyU If

lucy.salyer

SalyerLucy

@kangborderlaw has asked me to share my picks for #6books6people. Here’s my stack of books in progress for research, teaching and pleasure! Finishing @dsharfstein wonderfully engaging history of Chief Joseph

Jeanna Smialek

jeannasmialek

The Fed revamped its policy framework today. Now that the stories are put to bed, I thought I'd do a quick thread on the history that got us to this

Shaun L Kelly

ShaunLKelly1955

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond - and his response

Patrick Iber

PatrickIber

A lot of professors and teachers are having thoughts about the inequities of grading under present conditions, but the thing is that most of those concerns apply equally under "normal"

Jason Crawford

jasoncrawford

This basically happened to me.It started in 8th-grade algebra and ended with me “dropping out” of high school.https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1199621578280988673 In 8th grade my algebra class was extremely slow and started off

Jean

Jean__Taylor

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare," Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light and Other Essays. Black women, this post

Jes Battis

jesbattis

Wish we'd stop putting literature and creative writing programs in these weird silos, where one is only academic and one is only studio-based, with zero overlap between. Creative writing requires

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Aelkus

this is an anecdote I give frequently, but its worth revisiting again. in August 2017, Robin Wright writes a story for the New Yorker that reports, ominously, that some experts

Pallavi

SevenDeviled

A thing I find hard when teaching in the US is to break this argumentative façade students are taught to cultivate as a public speaking skill. Getting all their talking

Helen King (Classics, History of Medicine, C of E)

fluff35

I don't usually write threads. But this seemed to merit one. The Open University is getting a lot of publicity right now and among the comments on various news stories

Brendan Myers, PhD

Fellwater

Working on my ecology & #philosophy book late last night. It occurred to me: since I'm not under any pressure to publish-or-perish, like university profs are, I can write not

Sensacion Del Bloque

LaPendejaDori

Tip for writing essays on a time crunch: make your initial outline really comprehensive for you that touches on every question and small assumption asked by the prompt. THEN gather

Martijn de Koning

Martijn5155

De schutter in Buffalo pende zijn gedachten neer in een manifest waarin de omvolkingsmythe centraal staat: het idee dat er zoiets is als een oorspronkelijk wit volk dat vervangen kan