Links for Students

New Article on 1984 (Posted May 8/18)
 
Publishing 
 
 
The Best Overall Writing Resources on the Web (so far)
 
 
 
 
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Learn Anything in 5 Minutes
 
Facebook's War on Free Will
 
Happy Halloween
 
Stephen King: Everything You Need To Know About Writing Successfully In 10 Minutes
 
Albert Einstein on the Secret of Learning
 
Ray Bradbury on how List-Making can boost Creativity

 www.brainpickings.org/2013/10/18/ray-bradbury-on-lists/

Vocabulary Wheel

lifehacker.com/find-the-perfect-word-for-your-feelings-with-this-vocab-1653013241?rev=1414704414398

How I Read

www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/dec/18/how-i-read/

Memory Tip: Show your Brain what's Important

www.businessinsider.com/memory-tip-show-brain-important-information-2014-12

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Eight Books

www.brainpickings.org/2014/12/29/neil-degrasse-tyson-reading-list/

Leonardo's Brain

www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/17/leonardos-brain-leonard-shlain/

T.S. Eliot's Prufrock (100 years later)

flavorwire.com/498924/100-years-later-t-s-eliots-the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock

Writing Advice

www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/how-to-write-a-year-in-advice-from-mitchell-smiley-li-and-more/383991/

100 Best Novels

www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/19/100-best-novels-1984-george-orwell-nineteen-eighty-four-robert-mccrum

Science of Storytelling

lifehacker.com/5965703/the-science-of-storytelling-why-telling-a-story-is-the-most-powerful-way-to-activate-our-brains?action_type_map=%7B%2210151358961859747%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_object_map=%7B%2210151358961859747%22%3A133605103460290%7D

Ten Writing Tips

thewritepractice.com/ursula-le-guin/

Short Fiction's Place in Literature

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/short-and-sweet-george-orwell-james-joyce-and-short-fictions-place-in-the-world-of-literature-9986564.html

How baby boomers screwed their kids — and created millennial impatience

 www.salon.com/2014/01/04/how_baby_boomers_screwed_their_kids_%E2%80%94_and_created_millennial_impatience/

How Creativity Works--And How To Harness Its Power
www.fastcompany.com/3022448/how-to-be-a-success-at-everything/how-creativity-works-and-how-to-harness-its-power

What’s Wrong With Millennials? My Psychotherapy Clients Can’t Fend for Themselves

www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/12/millennial_narcissism_helicopter_parents_are_college_students_bigger_problem.html

Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming

www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming

 

How Your Memory Works (and Three Ways to Improve It)

lifehacker.com/how-your-memory-works-and-three-ways-to-improve-it-1370487727

 

Why Generation Y Yuppies are Unhappy (Penner's Note: What about Generation X? Why are we not mentioned in the article?)

www.huffingtonpost.com/wait-but-why/generation-y-unhappy_b_3930620.html

 

Hack Your Mind: 23 Tricks to Learn Anything Better

greatist.com/happiness/hack-your-mind-learn-anything-better

 

17 Ways To Find Good Books To Read

www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/17-ways-find-good-books-read.html

 

Malcolm Cowley on the Four Stages of Writing: Lessons from the First Five Years of The Paris Review

www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/04/05/malcolm-cowley-four-stages-of-writing-paris-review/

 

Facebook Home Could Change Our Brains

www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/9975118/Facebook-Home-could-change-our-brains.html

 

NextGen Journal Gives College Students’ Spin on Global Events | MindShift

blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/05/nextgen-journal-gives-college-students-spin-on-global-events/

 

Reading Critically - Interrogating Texts - Harvard Library LibGuides at Harvard Library

guides.hcl.harvard.edu/sixreadinghabits

 

Tips & Techniques For Preventing Online Plagiarism

www.makeuseof.com/tag/tips-and-techniques-for-preventing-online-plagiarism/

 

The Whole World, Opened Up

therumpus.net/2012/10/the-whole-world-opened-up/

 

PDFs

Chaucer and Twitter.docx (61,4 kB)

Lecture on The Metamorphosis.docx (50,4 kB)

The Return of the Flood Saga.docx (17 kB)

Triumph of Triviality.pdf (466,3 kB)

Why Books are Taught.pdf (102 kB)
 

 

Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 84, Philip Roth

www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2957/the-art-of-fiction-no-84-philip-roth

 

Pink Floyd: Journey to the Dark Side

www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pink-floyd-journey-to-the-dark-side-20111013

 

Write for Dropbox lets you create notes on your iPhone not only quickly, but beautifully

www.imore.com/write-dropbox-lets-you-create-notes-your-iphone-not-only-quickly-beautifully

 

10 Alternatives to PowerPoint

www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/14145.aspx#

 

Is the novel beyond saving?

www.salon.com/2013/01/14/is_the_novel_beyond_saving/?utm_source=scribol.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=scribol.com

 

The Weird 1969 New Wave Sci-Fi Novel that Correctly Predicted the Current Day

www.themillions.com/2013/03/the-weird-1969-new-wave-sci-fi-novel-that-correctly-predicted-the-current-day.html