A list of common prepositions for you to search in order to find prepositional phrases:

Aboard, about, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, by, down, during, except, for, from, in, into, like, of, off, on, over, past, since, through, to, towards, until, up, upon, with, within, without.

In this lecture we talk about how to approach difficult academic articles that are, sometimes, much more difficult than we'd normally read.

The two articles I referenced:

1. Heavy metal hyperaccumulating plants: How and why do they do it? And what makes them so interesting?

2. Design of a Fuzzy Logic Evaluation to Determine the Ergonomic Risk Level of Manual Material Handling Tasks

In this brief lecture we talk about new essay writing technology and why, while it's cool, it doesn't really have any bearing on why we do what we do as writers.

In this episode we talk about a subtle difference between two ways of thinking about paragraphs.

It just so happens that every single sentence that can be constructed in English has something in common with all of the other sentences: every single one is a story. Understanding how that's the case, why that's the case, and what it means for clarity can help you become a better writer.

You've got all this research, so what do you do with it? We talk about how to take information and adapt it to people who might find it useful. While it's not explicitly discussed in this episode, reverse this process to see how people might be influencing you with their arguments, too.

We talk about the rhetorical triangle/situation. We discuss an article from The Atlantic. We critique the a common rhetorical tactic.

Worth noting, the rhetorical situation deserves a lot more attention than it gets here, and will likely be the subject of another episode that deals with it in its contemporary contexts.

We tend to think reading fast means we're reading well, but that's not necessarily true. It took me a long time to learn to slow down and focus on comprehension and integration of my ideas. Scholarship is a slow process, unlike the gut-reaction-rage of contemporary politics and social media interaction. This episode is about the areas we need to be slow (reading) and the areas that need to be fast (typing) to make us the best scholars we can be.

Here is the google form with questions and visuals: tinyurl.com/dve101

What do we mean when we say something is "logical?" We put some early definitions on the word and talk about how it can be used.