Finals week. Stress is in the air and everyone is trying to keep it together, somehow. This is the time of the year where your college should be trying to provide forms of stress relief, as to reduce the risk of […]

I remembered our “Bloodchild”-spawned conversation about inoculating ourselves in the face of fear, worry, and anxiety when I came across this Scientific American article titled “Negative Emotions are Key to Well-Being.”

Eudaemonic approaches, on the other hand, emphasize a sense of meaning, personal growth and understanding of the self—goals th…

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Reflective writing is a novel concept to me and one, that I find quite deep and interesting. However, I have been able to understand from the writing workshops I attended during my gap year that, reflection is needed to create a strong and well-written piece. For me, reflection occurs when a writer is able to look within his/her self after…[Read more]

A laptop, a power outlet, a strawberry milk shake, some peace and quiet and Me. This is my all-in-one kit needed for a powerful writing session. Indeed, my perfect scenario includes no one distracting or disturbing me or trying to give me opinions on what and what I should not write. I could receive and accept criticisms and correct my mistakes…[Read more]

Procrastination, according to merriam-webster, is “to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done.” As college students, we all do it. We always have friends to hang out with, places to go, […]

THE METHODOLOGY OF SUMMARISING.

The art of Summarising in chapter two of  Graff-Birkenstein (They say/I say)exposed my ignorance of summary.  Before I read the above  chapter on summary, I always believed summary was only about shortening what the piece of work or article was saying. In other words, be concise and apply brevity. What I be…[Read more]

A summary is putting somebody else’s literature into your own words. You put the main idea, a few key details, and anything important from the text into the summary. Although we all know just what a summary is, […]

The chapter, “The Art of Summarizing”, states that there is an art behind super summary writing. The author describes this art by breaking it down into a few key statements and then delving into that point and des […]

A record of our brainstorming from Wednesday, 2/15.

In order to help us pick what we want to view, websites add short summaries on the link of whatever is actually inside the link. The short summary will, in most cases, will be the title of the webpage. Sometimes, however, these short summaries are misleading as it is in the case of this webpage. The short summary is: “Social media makes student w…[Read more]

Quite often we end up reading articles we see on the Internet based on the little that we see in the title. Sure it can be misleading, but anything to catch the reader’s eye will do for the writer. This is the […]

Normally, as recommended by the how-to-blog-here post, I’d embed links in my own text.

But I’m doing something different here because I want to draw attention to what this link itself says the article is going […]