All that has changed with Smartphones and better transcription technologies. Not every service today will deliver accurate and fast text but, at long last, it is fair to say that some will. Today it is possible to dictate into a Smartphone and receive super accurate academic writing, super fast. Although the best of these academic writing services are still for the most part in beta stage, students can look forward to doing away with laborious note taking and writing in the very near future.
There are so many cool gadgets and apps for online courses that the excuses for not getting work done from home are rapidly fading in relevance. So many gadgets and apps tailor for online courses that life is made easier in a myriad of ways you probably couldn’t even imagine. These are some of our favourite gadgets and apps for online courses for 2012. Most are inexpensive and will make awesome gifts for online course students.
Distance learning is more about convenience than anything else, and as an option it has come a very long way since the early days when distance learning was all about television offering instruction in the 1940s. Although distance learning has been going on in some form since the late 1800s there was never an efficient medium for two way distance learning engagement until the advent of teleconferencing in the 1980s.
When grading academic writing there are a number of things a professor will consistently look for apart from the fundamentals of spelling and grammar. Writing interesting content is great but even if you can’t or don’t, follow the steps below to cover your bases and your academic writing will certainly gain a pass.
A literature review is a body of text that aims to review the critical points of current knowledge using secondary sources. This will include substantive findings in addition to theoretical and methodological contributions in the field. In essence it is a review and analysis of literary works in relation to a specific research topic. The one key point of an effective literature review is that it comprehensively represents the work done in the field to date. An excellent literature review will represent the written views of professionals in the field to a level of great depth.
Creative writing courses can lead down several career paths with the three most typical being copy writer, author or editor. This career path is distinct from a journalist career path in several respects. Creative writing courses attract a different type of personality with a typically different skill set, although it is common to cross over from creative writer to journalist and visa-versa.
University course choices are changing and have been for about the past 50 years. No longer are the traditional non-vocational subjects at the forefront of choice for university courses. These are being overtaken by the big money spinners and interestingly enough, the arts.
The typical student is typical no more. Student demographics are changing in the States and around the world. Just a few years ago English as a Second Language (ESL or EsoL) was virtually unheard of in public schools and it certainly wasn’t a feature of many tertiary institutes. Today you will be hard pressed to find a school that doesn’t offer ESL. Likewise, for adult education which has boomed over the past couple of decades.
Global education is a fairly new phenomenon in large part driven by the human rights movements of the 50s and 60s and the resultant pressure brought to bear upon governments bodies by international agencies. Not only is global education historically new but the standards of education required to achieve globally acceptable standards for entry into university for example, has been rising steadily.
Publication in an academic journal is a prestigious and academic event which carries with it many rights and responsibilities. The more you cover prior to submission the better chance you will have of having your journal article published. In light of the competitive environment of journal article publications, and some of the confusion surrounding copyright and author obligations, we offer the essential key points in terms of author responsibility and copyright information.