Showing posts with label academic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label academic. Show all posts
Sunday, 30 December 2012

postheadericon The Heart-Brain Connection: The Neuroscience of Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning

The Heart-Brain Connection: The Neuroscience of Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning Video Clips. Duration : 20.33 Mins.


Neuroscientist Richard Davidson presents his research on how social and emotional learning can affect the brain. Read more about the topic, including how to use social and emotional learning to stop bullying, on our Edutopia website: www.edutopia.org

postheadericon Academic writing skills for the IELTS test

Academic writing skills for the IELTS test Video Clips. Duration : 2.75 Mins.


Visit www.IELTStestONLINE.com for our complete online study course, including reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar and vocabulary lessons, as well as essential academic skills like punctuation, linking words and up to 12 complete practice tests. Also check out our new IELTS writing app on iTunes - http NARRATION: In this IELTS writing course you will find a number of different lessons that will help you improve your academic writing. In this lesson, we will look at some of the basic points you need to consider. Let's look back at the bad paragraph you saw at the beginning of this lesson. The first rule of academic writing is that you should avoid contractions such as don't and hadn't. Writing the complete word such as do not is better academically, and also adds an extra word to your word count. The second point for academic writing is that you should avoid using phrasal verbs such as give up. A phrasal verb is created when using a verb and another word together to create a particular meaning. It would be much better in this example to use a word like 'concede'. Academic writing also means that you should avoid emphasising with capital letters or being too direct. Using a word like stupid for example, will definitely lower your academic presentation. You should also avoid emphasising with exclamation marks. Although you may be asked for an opinion in academic writing, you are not being asked to show emotion and your writing should remain formal at all times ...

Tuesday, 25 December 2012

postheadericon Making an academic research poster using Power Point

Making an academic research poster using Power Point Tube. Duration : 9.77 Mins.


This is a screenshot video with audio tutorial on how to make an academic research poster using power point. The tutorial is produced by the Mathematics and Science Teaching (MAST) Institute at the University of Northern Colorado.

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