This seems like something everyone should know if they’re in the sciences and/or interested in reading scientific papers.
Also, many academic articles are available on http://sci-hub.tw. If you enter the DOI or the URL of the article on the publisher’s page, it will usually take you right to a PDF.
people will also upload their own publications on researchgate.net pretty regularly. you might need to register to get access but it’s free and as far as I know you don’t need an academic/industry email. It also has a “request full text” option that will send the authors a request if they have an account but haven’t added something.
Tag: academics
This University of Alberta Indigenous history course is the most popular course in Canada
A course created one year ago by the University of Alberta was the most popular online course in Canada in 2017, and is already making inroads into how Canadians understand the history of Indigenous people.
With almost 20,000 people enrolled, the free online 12-module course called Indigenous Canada teaches those from an Indigenous perspective.
“A lot of Indigenous experiences in Canada have been silenced by a normative settler vision of Canada and the history of it,” said Paul Gareau, assistant professor with the U of A’s Native Studies program and the academic lead for the course.
“This course focuses on telling an Indigenous experience of Canada.”
“The course is available for free through Coursera here.”
I’ve done this course and it is fantastic. I learnt so much about the various Indigenous cultures across Canada along with history and was given a much better understanding of what Indigenous people face.
It only takes an hour or so per course and you can do them at your own pace.
This University of Alberta Indigenous history course is the most popular course in Canada
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“in this essay i will explore” memes piss me off because it implies y’all still using first person pronouns when writing academically. childish ass
In this essay, this writer will explore the implications of pretending that one’s own personal view is not part of one’s essay, and the inaccessibility of academia related to established custom of artificial detachment.
In this essay, I will demonstrate that the blanket ban on first-person pronouns in high-school and some university English classes is poorly understood and hastily adopted as a result. I will further illustrate that it is a mere substitute for explaining to inexperienced writers that excessive use of phrases like “I think” or “I believe” is unnecessary and rhetorically weakens academic writing, and that opinions expressed in an essay are already assumed to be those of the author. Finally, I will address strategies for effectively conveying that information to students, who often find it difficult to grasp.
In this essay, passive voice will be used throughout in order to distance the work done from any researchers, or, in reality, kind of imply all experiments were done by magical lab gremlins and the results were simply recorded.
in this essay, enlightenment will descend upon you without the agency of any living being. you will know things, yet know not how you know.
prepare yourself. it begins.
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