Reinventing the Survey Course

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Reinventing the Survey Course

Last semester I reinvented English composition as a community-service learning course. My students did the usual work of any composition course — developing basic writing skills, crafting narrative essays and arguments, conducting research — but it was in the service of creating print and web content
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Social Engineering to the People: Facebook Asks Users to Rank Media Credibility

The new Facebook adaptation comes just one week after Zuckerberg announced that the social media leader would begin showing fewer unpaid posts on its site from publishers and other brands so as to prioritize what he termed “meaningful” interactions between friends and family. “I announced a
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North Shore people

She is a member of the class of 2020 majoring in creative writing. ¢¢¢. Arlin Baez has been named to the Providence College dean's list for the fall 2017 semester. ¢¢¢. Anthony Marraffa has been named to the Fitchburg State University dean's list for the fall 2017 semester. ¢¢¢. Justin Sudenfield has
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A 'pro-white' town manager wants races to separate, rails against Islam, refuses to quit

Not many people have heard of Jackman, a small Maine town of fewer than 1,000 people not far from the Canadian border. That was until this week, when media outlets began publishing stories about Jackman's town manager, a 37-year-old transplant from Arizona who seemed unequivocal about his
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NWP falls 25% after publishing FY17 annual report

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 22): Shares of NWP Holdings Bhd fell 25% this morning on resuming traded after the group published its FY17 annual report last Friday. At 9.12am, NWP fell 2.5 sen to 10.5 sen with 321,000 shares done. The external auditors of the company issued a qualified opinion on the
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Props for 'The Post'

In that year, the publishing of classified government documents — the Pentagon Papers — by the New York Times and The Washington Post became top headline news. The Pentagon Papers was the name given to a top-secret Department of Defense investigation of United States political and military
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Book fair sees highest ever footfall

CHENNAI: The Chennai Book Fair this year has recorded the highest ever footfall, according to the Booksellers and Publishers Association of South India (BAPASI), the organisers. With another day to go, the fair is expected to have seen around 12 lakh people this year. “On the basis of tickets,
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