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Pach: Academic writing needs to be more accessible

Pach: Academic writing needs to be more accessible

February 14, 2019

My first year at Northwestern convinced me I couldn’t read. It wasn’t the amount of reading — although that in itself was alarming — but the style in which social science articles are written....

Newman: On necessities, luxuries and labor in the humanities

April 20, 2017

You love your lit courses — you know you do. Perhaps Dickens was your favorite: You could almost feel the London fog swirling into your lungs. Or how about that wild and crazy Chaucer class where you...

Balk: Academia should find a place for Wikipedia

January 15, 2015

I’ve been listening to teachers tell me not to use Wikipedia since fourth grade. Yesterday, looking at a slide that advised using podcasts and blogs for research but warned against the evils of Wikipedia,...

Patil: Q-and-A with McCormick Ph.D. student Bharath Pattabiraman

Patil: Q-and-A with McCormick Ph.D. student Bharath Pattabiraman

September 29, 2013

Bharath Pattabiraman has been a Ph.D. student in the department of electrical engineering and computer science in McCormick since 2009. He hails from Chennai, the "Detroit of India."  Pattabiraman spoke...

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