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Moore, Tim – Australian Universities' Review, 2020
The research is complete, the article written, there's just one last job-think of a great title, one that not only elegantly summarizes your research, but that is also going to grab the attention of a fickle and perpetually time-poor readership. Article titling is a challenge for experienced researchers, and even more so for young academics…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Faculty Publishing, Writing for Publication, Periodicals
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Fost, Joshua – Innovative Higher Education, 2013
In this article I describe software that facilitates "question-centric curricula" in which "big questions," rather than academic disciplines, are the primary means of organizing educational resources. To find these questions, the software scans course catalogs and extracts all sentences ending in a question mark. To find connections between…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Organization, Information Technology, Semantics
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Blackburn, Nick – Visible Language, 2011
This essay presents a revised history of the punctuation mark ["], drawn from the earliest communities who made it their own. By situating the development of ["] in its historical context, from first uses of the diple [diple] by the Greek scholar Aristarchus, it explains how it was the general applications which persisted into the sixteenth…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Semantics, Punctuation, Scripts
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Dawkins, John – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2003
In this paper, the author explains the simplification of a theory of punctuation for college-level instruction. He describes a systematization of the punctuation marks that has pedagogical possibilities. He concludes by stressing that the notion of a hierarchy of punctuation marks is not a difficult one for college students; after all, the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Punctuation, Writing Skills, College Students