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• 1226 Optimizing Your Writing Process: Write Nonlinearly

  "Besides seeing projects as complex in space, the prolific also see them as complex in time. While novice writers see writing as "just writing," the prolific see it as a process consisting of these or similar stages: 1.        Conceptualization (a.k.a. note-taking or "noodling around") 2.        Planning and outlining (a little more structured than above) 3.        Research 4.        First Draft 5.        Revision(s) 6.        Final Draft 7.        Submission(s) 8.        Cash the Check (for freelance and other writers who get paid)" (Tales of Space and Time, ¶1).

  tags: academic writing non-linear process stages writing writing practices

• PLOS ONE: Gender on the Brain: A Case Study of Science Communication in the New Media Environment

  "The journey of information from scientific journal through the various layers of public reception was characterised by the evolution of increasingly diversified, personalised and politicised meaning" (Discussion: How do science, gender and media intersect in contemporary society, ¶1, 2015.06.09).

  tags: brain research communication gender media neuroscience science sociology

• Netiquette: Ground Rules for Online Discussions

  "a dozen online discussion rules to include in your syllabus. Notice that most of them are just as applicable in face-to-face discussions."

  tags: communication discussions education educational technology netiquette

• Impact of Social Sciences – “Brain Study Confirms Gender Stereotypes”: How science communication can fuel modern sexism.

  "Scrutiny of the evidence-base for many claims of sex difference produces plentiful examples of methodological weakness and interpretative bias. In particular, neuroscientific studies of sex difference routinely presume a simplistic gender binary in research design and interpretation; ignore large within-sex variation in favour of emphasising small differences between the sexes; and privilege determinist biogenetic explanations for brain differences over the equally plausible explanation that plastic brains are shaped by systematically different sociocultural experience" (¶2, 2015.06.09).

  tags: brains brain research gender methodology science stereotypes

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