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Concepts and conceptions

  • Posted on: 30 December 2015
  • By: govert

Underlying seemingly unterminable discussions, different interpretations of words can often be pinpointed as the cause of trouble.

Problem statements

  • Posted on: 30 December 2015
  • By: govert

The following remarks and questions on problem statements form a rather loose and unstructured collection. The are phrased in a seemingly silly and even caricatural style.

Normative and descriptive statements

  • Posted on: 30 December 2015
  • By: govert

Quite some of the problems that students run in to can be mended by distinguishing more clearly between normative and descriptive statements.

On writing

  • Posted on: 30 December 2015
  • By: govert

An overwhelming amount of guides can be found on the internet about how to write a proper paper. Most of them are quite useful, and probably most of them at least contain something that I do wrong all the time. Hence, this text is not written with the pretention to provide the conclusive guide to writing college papers. It is written because the things I see many of my students do wrong, are so stereotypical, and easy to prevent.

On reading

  • Posted on: 30 December 2015
  • By: govert

If the genie granted me one wish for a skill that I could send back to the past to my younger self, it would probably be: reading.