Francesca Tronetti
An educator with a love of local history who enjoys working with all members of the community. Right now I'm keeping busy building my skillsets anticipating new opportunities in 2021.
Location North Western Pennsylvania
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I tend to ignore sound details and focus on people and clothing. But being able to describe background noise, especially when it can add depth to a story is important.
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Hello all. I took this course, or one similar here, a few years ago. I am kind of stuck on a story I am trying to write so I decided to take the course again to work my idea free.
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My learner G, girl, has been in the US since August 2021. She lives in a chaotic household with several brothers and sisters. Her mother is very dedicated to learning English, her father not so much. G spends a lot of time playing on her phone and is silent during class, but when she participates, she is excellent. She did very well on an assessment test,...
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I really appreciate the resources provided here. We are using an assessment test created for adults and most teachers are looking for something which is made for teenagers.
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We just administered a reading test and some of our students really surprised us with how well they did. However, we need to work on reading comprehension and listening to directions. For this we want to start showing short news programs, like The Dodo or Inside Edition, to see what they can understand from different types of informational broadcasts.
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We have never asked our students these questions before. We always focused on their English skills.
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With our students we are working on creating sentences, spacing words, and expanding ideas beyond an answer of 3-4 words.
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I teach in an after-school ESL program where we help students with homework while building their vocabulary and teaching them about American life. All of our students are refugees, mostly Afghani, and their English writing skills need developing. I'm looking forward to learning new ways to help support my students.
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My students are older so as soon as a phone or computer gets in their hands they go to social media. We try to use more coloring and word searches in our classroom. They help with vocabulary building and can be done quietly. This, we have found really settles down a class, and students will often work together, or challenge each other to finish them first. But...
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"For students who have experienced complex trauma, their brains become used to being on alert. This means that for most hours of most days they have an overactive brainstem that limits prefrontal cortical activity."
Knowing what I do about my students' daily lives, this passage explained a lot. They are constantly under bombardment, from loud classrooms,...
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One of my main responses is to freeze while internally panicking.
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I have seen a lot of the same acting-out behaviors in my students.
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I would say all of my students and their families have experienced complex trauma, because of where they grew up. Now they are in a new country where the families can end up isolated, based on where they are housed, and can experience bullying because they are outsiders who cannot speak the language. Add in a lack of available mental health personnel who can...
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I run an afterschool program teaching ESL to refugee children. Most of our students are Afghani and were evacuated when the US pulled out of the country. They have seen and experienced violence, and some still have family in the country.
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Sadly, based on the risk factors, those most at risk of developing PTSD following trauma are also those least likely to be able to seek help or be believed.
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I think that limiting the stressors does a disservice to many people. Those who are home or food insecure probably experience daily or constant stress each time they pick up the phone or are asked to speak to their supervisor. This would be a continuous trauma which would affect other members of the family.
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Willingness to do the work, flexibility, compassion, desire to make changes, time for self-care.
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Working in a non-profit, I have to recommend our leadership team, and those in other organizations who pull their people to go above and beyond their job descriptions to make a positive change in their communities.
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I've done recording before and what was hard was not always looking at my computer or script while also trying to monitor my recording. I also tend to talk faster when I'm nervous so I needed to watch for that.
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I was supposed to read an article for a journal to edit it and the author used no subheadings and had huge paragraphs. I had to reject it entirely for major rewrites needed. It's not a course but it's the same idea, a huge information dump with no idea of where to pause and take a break.
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The readability tool suggested wasn't very helpful for me. Nothing was flagged. I find using the Grammarly program is more helpful because it highlights when your sentences are too long and makes suggestions for how to break them up. Of course, it is just a computer, so you as a writer have to check to make sure your sentence still makes sense with the...
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I used a piece I had previously published. My longest sentence was 24 words, with an average word length of 14. It didn't tell me if my sentences were incomprehensible to the average reader.
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In grad classes, the discussion was how we brought the topic to life. Even in online forums, we would bring up other studies, videos, lectures, and books. As a group, we built up a lot of background information on the topic and brought in different ideas.
I think that for the humanities that discussion is a good way to learn, especially when learning about... -
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I teach online in a seminary for graduate students. I listened to my students, especially about what they wanted in a course. I am turning my short 4-week course into a semester-long one. Know that your students are interested in the course and will want to understand all aspects of the subject, especially those that deal with religion or culture.
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Where I am, people work collaboratively and work across programs to help each other out. This makes our dynamic a little awkward since it's sometimes difficult to determine where work boundaries are.
One thing which wasn't discussed is how the in-group can become a cult of personality, where even those who work hard aren't in the group because they are not... -
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Bernice is 43 and is interested in getting a graduate degree. She has a good job but wants to learn more about other religions. So she is taking a few classes at the seminary because it is open to pagan studies. She has a computer and can use the online platform. She is disabled physically and can get tired often, so online coursework is what she likes, but if...
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My target audience is grad students in a seminary where I am currently an adjunct. These students are interested in joining the chaplaincy or continuing their educational journey. All are interested in a wide array of spiritual practices and are not followers of major religious sects.
The school is online and many students are older, so a user-friendly...
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I have a Ph.D and wanted to be a uni. professor. However, full-time positions are slim, and I'm not able to move for a part-time adjunct position. With so much teaching now taking place online, I want to make myself more competative for online teaching positions.
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Hello,
I did one online course for a learning platform and am moving into teaching at a graduate institution. I want to make my courses interesting and informative, challenging but not stressful. -
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How do you lead someone you used to be friends with and do it well?
I still try to be friends and see my role as trying to make dictates from management work. I treat my team to lunch once a week and am trying to find time for us to hang out after work so they can vent and I can know what an issue I might be able to fix is.
I am really not good at being...
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Very true, especially when we all complain about stupid things the state requires but now I get to enforce this. I am also the sounding board for team members who deal with a second supervisor for a duty and the person piles work on them. But, it's outside my control.
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Our agency is growing and within a few years, I know my role will change into one similar to my current supervisor's, in terms of interfacing with state agencies and the community. Right now I am the go-to person and I handle issues my team has when management comes down with a decision that doesn't make sense. But I do this because I feel it's my job to make...
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I worried about having to be strict with people. I roll with situations, which is why supervisors like me, because I can adapt. But I feel awkward putting m foot down with people, especially when it is a colleague who I might technically be above but we are on different teams/parts of the agency. Especially when this person has worked her longer than I have.
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Very interested since I became a team leader before I even had a team. And because of where I work I still function as part of the team. Now I just get to write reports along with other work.
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the quiz says I have a growth mindset. I think that is true but I also think some people just have a skill set I do not. And that's ok.
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When I was hired for my current position, I had no idea what I was doing. I had never worked in a non-profit as a coordinator nor ran an educational program. During the interview I asked why they wanted me and was told that people remembered when I was a part-time teacher and sub and liked me. So suddenly I was in charge of working with refugee families and...
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I might do this with different aspects of my job or hobbies. To break down the different parts of myself.
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Procrastination is my method of choice to avoid work. At my job everyone is working 2 or three jobs because our agency is severely understaffed in terms of maintenance and facilities staff and trying to grow. I work from 8:15 to about 6:00-6:15 and come home exhausted. But I feel like I need to keep working or I won't be seen as pulling my weight.
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A lot if the characteristics seem to fit me. It's just nice to know that there are so many others who get the same doubts and downplay their achievements.
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In elementary school, the counselors kept pushing for me to be placed in special education programs, and they told my parents I would never graduate high school. My grandfather was an education professor and pushed for me to have a special intelligence test which showed that I wasn't the hopeless case they made me out to be. But, I would still be taken out of...
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63%, which seems about right. Lately, I have been given some academic opportunities, and I downplay why I get them. I was part of the blog before, no one else wants the work, there is no one my job could hire who would want my job, type of thing. Even when I think "This is a new department they want to succeed so they wouldn't have someone who couldn't do the...
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People who are high achievers might experience this more often because so many people praise their work. If you think your work is good, but then others are going on about it, saying it's brilliant or groundbreaking, and you think it's just good, then you wonder why people are saying this. Especially when you compare your work to those you admire in the field...
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I've got a few expert tendencies, especially when it comes to applying for jobs. The job postings have long lists of skills and duties which are part of the job and I will be like, "well, I can do half this stuff."
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I do a lot of self-criticisms, but mostly I downplay when I do achieve something. That I just happened to be in the right place or that someone really just needed a warm body in that position.
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Hi all, so I almost always feel like everyone else around me knows exactly what they are supposed to be doing, and I am just stumbling along. I am hoping to be able to recognize and put a stop to negative thoughts which make me doubt myself.
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I've downloaded all of these meditations to put on my phone for when I need a quick break to recenter.
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I really enjoyed this course and think it has given me some very useful tools as I continue to work with my students and their families.
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I can never know what my students have experienced. They have left their homes when there were wars happening outside their doors. They have been in camps with fences while someone determined if they could have safety. They have been told where they are going to live and sent to a city and given a house or apartment far away from others who speak their...
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Listening to the students and keeping a smile on our faces, even when we are frustrated, makes them feel like we are happy to have them. During class I will say to different students that I am glad they are here, that I like having them in class, or that they are doing really well. I just try to keep them encouraged because what we are doing and learning is hard.
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In the summer, we plan to get our students involved with the community garden at our agency. I would like to give them each a few plants which are theirs to look after. Our elders usually run the garden, so the students would help them by keeping up with weeds and working alongside them.
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We have tried to get our students to begin journaling, and even bought the books. But it is hard to know if they are continuing to journal. So instead on Mondays, we will do a group activity which is a check-in of sorts. I'm hoping that eventually, we can get students into journaling as it has been shown to be beneficial.
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We recently had a situation where everything was hitting at once. We had two teens in the program who were being disrespectful and disruptive, multiple issues at work regarding vehicles, and general stress with one more responsibility put on us. Rather than try to power through it we decided to cancel the class for the day and take the time to deal with the...
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In our class, we play bingo based on the vocabulary for the week/season. Students who get a bingo receive play money which they can use to purchase prizes. Our prizes range from $1-$10 and include personal hygiene supplies like soap and brushes, fuzzy socks, make-up, hair barrettes, painting kits, and phone cords. Students can purchase their own supplies. They...
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Most of my students are Afghan refugees who fled when the US pulled out. They have first-hand trauma, which is exacerbated when reading about what continues to happen to family and friends left behind in the country.
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I ate a lot of cake and chocolate and started reading romance novels and cozy mysteries to escape. these are easy reads and don't take a lot of emotional energy out of me, and they always end with happily ever after.
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I resonated with the girl talking about how everyone seemed to know what they were doing. When I went to grad school, it seemed like everyone there knew how to get into programs and begin teaching or get involved with a professor's research project, and I was just lost, and I didn't want to ask for help because I didn't want people to think I didn't belong there.
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Many of my students have attendance problems because they have to stay home to help take care of siblings. Or they don't go to school because they are frustrated because they can not understand the teacher or materials in English. This creates many problems throughout our school and agency systems since the parents must be contacted, and sometimes OCY gets...
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I am very happy to have found this course. So many things are coming up in my personal life and at work and I need to find a way to not get overwhelmed with stress and negative thoughts and handle things as they come.
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During the exercises, my mind wanders either to things I have to do later, or I stress out about things that could go wrong. My mind is constantly in worst case scenario mode and it is difficult to break the cycle and calm down.
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I want to see if I can use this with some of my students who are feeling overwhelmed. It might help them since it can be easily done anywhere you happen to be.
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I think the guest metaphor works well for negative emotions. We don't want to let them in. We want to pretend they are not there. But if we have to acknowledge them, we don't want them to get in too deep. We don't want the pain, thoughts, or feelings they bring in.
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I would have liked to hear more about how to use altruistic love to avoid burnout since that is what I and others are going through right now.
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Trying to get more sleep and make time for solitary activities I enjoy. Still trying to start a meditation schedule.
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Prior to lock down, I was part of a knitting group that met every Sat at a coffee shop. We couldn't meet up during lockdowns, and trying to meet over zoom was not the same. After lockdown, so much had changed in our lives that the group doesn't get together. The coffee shops close earlier and people's work hours have changed so most couldn't meet anyway.
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I connect with so much of this. I am always going over interactions I've had where I misspoke or misstepped, wondering if there will be consequences, what those might be, what others think of me, etc. I need to pay attention to the good things happening right now around me, and worry a little less about the future.
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Can't wait to get started.
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Currently, I feel burned out by work and family obligations. I feel like I have to take care of everyone else first, and to demand that I get to be left alone, to do something as simple as clearing a room, is selfish. I just want to be able to go to sleep without a thousand thoughts and worries going through my head.
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Hello, I am the coordinator for an ESL/EFL program for refugee youth in the US. Everyone here wears many hats and does many jobs so the work is stressful. But we also care deeply about our clients and want to help them. So we get stretched pretty thin often.
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I found I was more "active" because I was helping take care of family members and doing their shopping and errands. But, it left me emotionally drained, and by the time I got home, I didn't have the mental energy to exercise or craft or write like I had wanted to do. Burnout came when I got overwhelmed watching news and worrying about everything going on...
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Francesca Tronetti replied to Fiona Sutcliffe
@NicolaEadon I like that the app doesn't reward you for going under a calorie count. That becomes such a black hole when people count calories but not the vitamins and nutrients they need to be healthy.
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Our agency uses some gentle stretching exercises from YouTube with our senior program. We could try to incorporate this into a weekly activity and show them where they can find these videos.
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Eating more and a lot more screen time with less outside activity. Even when students are in a program they enjoy, that they want to be in, I often find them on tic tok or listening to music, ignoring their friends.
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Spending time at home and away from friends is hard. But also, children will probably be online and exposed to more social media, which is not a mentally safe place for an adult, much less a child.
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Most of the children I work with experience extreme social isolation. They cannot communicate with other children, or even teachers effectively. Plus, most are living far from each other, so the only time they interact with their language peer group is at school or in our program. During the summer, they only time they saw each other was during our program.
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Hello,
I am the coordinator of an ESL/EFL program in the United States. We primarily serve Afghani youth and expect Ukrainian students to come in within the next few months. Generally in a school, there are professionals to deal with children needing help, but in our agency, myself and my teacher have been tasked with supporting the students. And neither of... -
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I work with refugee children who have all experienced trauma and there are very few mental health services for their communities.
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Hello, I'm really looking forward to this course. I am an ESL/EFL teacher in the US working primarily with Afghani youth, with Ukrainian children coming in soon. My students have experienced multiple levels of trauma and due to language barriers, good mental health help is impossible to get. So myself and another teacher have been tasked with being the go-to...
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Many thanks from the USA.
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I like that I now have checklists and methods to help narrow the focus of broad research questions. The checklists I can print out and use in my research for years to come.
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I am a radio dj and have done online teaching so my best presentations come from recording, when people can only see and possibly images.
I like it when presenters can smile or joke when they slip up, they turn a mistake into a brief moment of fun before moving on.
My issue is I tend to speak quickly when nervous so a 15 minute talk is shortened to 10...
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Going back to what I am trying to do with my research project. I think I will have to break up the project, drop some of the previous questions, and rethink what I want my final article to say.
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This has helped me think again about my ongoing research and what I am truly trying to accomplish.
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I like to research first then put everything together. But, I do make notes if I think of a clever sentence to use.
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I used to have all my info on index cards with the source written on them. I'd organize the cards into an outline formation, so I could just go through them and write the article or paper. It was time-consuming to do but made the write-up process very quick since I wasn't hunting back through books with each new section.
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I used to use index cards, I'd take the direct quote with the author's name and page. Then I could arrange the notes to quickly write my papers, paraphrasing or direct quoting when needed. Took a while to hand write the notes but writing the paper went very quickly. Plus outlining before writing.
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Introduction
Alympos is restaurant on the Greek island Corfu run by and Englishman and his Greek wife. It was popular with tourists and locals in the past but recently the restaurant has seen a sharp decline in patronship which may lead to the closing of the business.
Analysis
The menu consists of British dishes such as fish and chips and traditional... -
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I like how I have planned my research project thus far. Though, I have an idea for a smaller essay that has sprung from this.
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I think I will use qualitative methods, surveys, and interviews. My project is about how pagans see the co-opting of their symbols into the self-help self-care industry.
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This assignment helped me lay out my thoughts and notes for the proposed project.
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Using "I", generalizations, slang, unprofessional language overall, recommendations in bullet points. I suggest they take this course.
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Generalizations, using loads, "I" sentences, questions. There are several ways this author could improve their writing.
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I bookmarked the access to journals. Here in the US, unless you are a student or faculty, you pay hundreds to subscribe to recent publications.
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Exploding out can also be helpful because you can generate ideas for future projects based on what interests you.
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Another tip for if you are looking at books on Amazon, read the reviews. Often reviews will give you a complete outline of the book, its conclusions, and how valid the author's point is. Of course, take everything with a grain of salt, especially if researching a controversial topic whether scientific or political.
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Yes! So much crap online to sift through.
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I liked writing the research proposal. It really helped me narrow my focus to a specific topic where I had a lot of ideas in my head. The research questions also gave me some avenues of search, so I don't get sidetracked and fall into the rabbit hole of internet research.
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I'm working on a series of short articles on how paganism and pagan imagery have become part of the mainstream.
The good: pagans still in the broom closet can purchase jewelry and altar decorations in regular stores at a mall without spending money online and having boxes shipped. Some self-care subscription boxes do offer useful tools to most... -
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I use a notebook to keep things written down. I also organize previous papers and documents to inspire me and give me a starting point for research.
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They address real issues which affect the people who use the work environment. They use a four-part layout of Introduction, Analysis, Conclusion, and Recommendations.
