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HOW TO: Stop Buying Crap
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HOW TO: Stop Buying Crap. Posted by Cap on December 14, 2006. The guide in helping you say up yours to Madison Avenue. Maybe You’ll Pick up a Thing or Two (No Guarantees). No matter if you’re a seasoned shopper who knows exactly what they want — or an impulsive buyer who grabs the $10 DVD at the check-out aisle — you can probably pick up a thing or two from reading this guide. One Man’s Crap is Another Man’s Han-Solo-Frozen-in-Carbonite. Spending $4,900 on a movie prop replica. Whatever it may be, as lon...
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A plagiarism checkup is just what the doctor ordered | The Savvy Scholar
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Maximizing quality of research results. Taking notes the digital way →. November 23, 2010 · 4:39 pm. A plagiarism checkup is just what the doctor ordered. What a savvy concept (that’s underused): check a paper’s first draft for plagiarism before final submission. Students do a spell check, so why not a plagiarism check? Filed under ACC Library. Maximizing quality of research results. Taking notes the digital way →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public). ACC Libra...
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Turnitin users and non-users: Google to the rescue! | The Savvy Scholar
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Intellectual dishonesty, hypocrisy, laziness, and information literacy. On typewriters and computers →. Turnitin users and non-users: Google to the rescue! Plagiarism sleuths: don’t throw Google out with the bathwater just yet. I’ve gotten feedback from instructors about their use of Google to detect student paper plagiarism (pasting in some parts of a student paper into Google may identify the Web pages the text came from). Wow, is that an eye opener. Turnitin is not perfect? I’m not here to debunk Turn...
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Intellectual dishonesty, hypocrisy, laziness, and information literacy | The Savvy Scholar
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Open textbooks for open minds. Turnitin users and non-users: Google to the rescue! January 15, 2012 · 11:30 pm. Intellectual dishonesty, hypocrisy, laziness, and information literacy. I would imagine many of us are guilty of this: we read something in the popular press or blog, then we quote that fact in an argument or discussion we’re having. I know I have. I’ve been guilty of trying to impress others how much I know on a topic, without qualifying where I got the information. The blog is very articulate...
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On typewriters and computers | The Savvy Scholar
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Turnitin users and non-users: Google to the rescue! April 25, 2012 · 10:11 pm. On typewriters and computers. Behold this solitary remnant at the Arapahoe Community College Library of a bygone era: the typewriter. (In case you’re curious, it’s one of those large, clunky-looking electric ones, an IBM Wheelwriter by Lexmark.). That’s a whole topic in itself.). It sits next to a row of computers, sort of an oddball among its high-tech bretheren. Dad, what’s a typewriter? A Google search reveals that at least...
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Changes in Delicious leave a certain taste in the mouth | The Savvy Scholar
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Taking notes the digital way. Open textbooks for open minds →. December 4, 2011 · 10:12 pm. Changes in Delicious leave a certain taste in the mouth. Delicious, the librarians’ favorite social bookmarking tool, has gone through some major upheavals, which, like a roller coaster ride, can impact a queasy stomach. Rumors of a shutdown of Delicious were greatly exaggerated, it turns out. After acquiring Delicious from the original developer in 2005, the financially fragile Yahoo! But if your stomach likes ne...
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Taking notes the digital way | The Savvy Scholar
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A plagiarism checkup is just what the doctor ordered. Changes in Delicious leave a certain taste in the mouth →. December 9, 2010 · 5:03 pm. Taking notes the digital way. I’ve looked at some innovative, brilliant high-tech ways of taking notes, and, for certain people (but not me), they certainly are a viable option, maybe even a godsend. And, if you love clever gadgets, you’ll love these even more. I even tried one of the gadgets. To sum it up, for me, using a digital pen is slower, more time-consuming,...
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The Savvy Scholar | Being empowered with information literacy | Page 2
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Newer posts →. October 24, 2010 · 8:35 pm. Maximizing quality of research results. Quality means reliable, trustworthy, authoritative sources (part of an information literacy skill set). Here are tips and tools for the savvy scholar to use to maximize the quality of research:. 3 Starting at the base is all right to familiarize yourself with your issues and topics (newspapers, popular magazines, popular sites), but use the highest-level sources (scholarly) near the top of the pyramid for your final source...
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Open textbooks for open minds | The Savvy Scholar
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Changes in Delicious leave a certain taste in the mouth. Intellectual dishonesty, hypocrisy, laziness, and information literacy →. January 15, 2012 · 5:13 pm. Open textbooks for open minds. Many of us are fully aware of the paradigm shifts in education involving the Internet digital revolution. One particular area of this revolution is the open education movement, where knowledge is freely shared at no cost to the learner, with open source textbooks becoming a major component. Open source textbooks are b...
