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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
5-paragraph--that's 3 ideas in the opening paragraph, a paragraph for each idea, then a closing paragraph to restate your 3 ideas? That's what I remember.
Yeah. First paragraph should state your main idea, then introduce three arguments supporting it. Next three paragraphs explain each of these three arguments, and final paragraph sums up.
5-paragraph--that's 3 ideas in the opening paragraph, a paragraph for each idea, then a closing paragraph to restate your 3 ideas? That's what I remember.
I'm currently helping a classmate who needs to pass an English test to gain permanent residency in Australia. The test consists of writing one letter, and one essay (situation and topic provided, otherwise it's pretty open). I'm thinking this would be a good framework for her to use in the essay portion. (She just needs a structure she doesn't have to think about so she can focuse on the English usage.)
Zombies?
Good practice.
I coasted through high school, coasted through college, with a brief detour into physics and then back out when I couldn't handle the calculus (and couldn't be bothered to try)--I ended up with a degree in anthropology, which I found relatively easy. I still think I gave up too easy on the hard sciences, and wonder what my life would be like if I'd really dug into it.
I didn't really work hard until law school, and even that was the kind of learning & work I was good at. There was just a lot of it. There, you get a very strict form of argument beaten into you: Issue, Rule, Analysis, Conclusion.
This conversation has made me wish I could find my ninth grade history teacher, Mr. Stewart, and thank him.
Yes. The way I love science now, I wish I had realized that back in the day. I feel like science itself is more interesting now, but maybe that's just because I get to pick and choose what I pay attention to. ETA: All the cool stuff is much more accessible these days; maybe that's it.
It is ridiculously windy outside today.
This is why I want to go back to school, because I think I know how to learn now. But oddly enough, very few continuing education programs contain "Physics for People who were Scared of Physics" courses. Heck, I should look for some remedial algebra and see how far my brain can get around higher math. That would keep the brain limber.
Connie, you might want to take a look at Thinking Physics [link] I have kind of the opposite problem - I learned physics in a very mathy way but have little in the way of intuition as to how and why the equations work in the world and had that book recommended to me for that. It's helped clarify things I thought I knew and covers quite a lot.
I was one of those people who hit college and had a hard time academically for the first time, but I dug in my heels and refused to be beaten by the hard science core curriculum and got my BS. I kind of regret it, because that process beat a lot of the enjoyment of those subjects out of me for a long time.
Heck, I should look for some remedial algebra and see how far my brain can get around higher math. That would keep the brain limber.
Absolutely.