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Author Archives: Taylor Massey
2013’s Most Valuable Professors Competition — Nominate and vote, time’s running out!
Have a truly exquisite professor that enriched your life for the better? There’s still time left to nominate and vote for them to win the title of MVP — Most Valuable Professor! By doing so, you’ll automatically be entered to win …
Posted in News and updates, Promotions
Tagged Most Valuable Professors, MVP, scholarships
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Education reform throughout the decades: Free reading on top education reform content
Education reform is the ongoing process of improving the public education. Historic issues have ranged from funding, to integration, and the merits of public versus private education for the millions of children in America’s elementary and high school system. Playing …
Celebrate National Nutrition Month with free reading on top nutrition books on Questia
Welcome to National Nutrition Month 2013! Never celebrated before? This year is the perfect time to begin, being the 40th anniversary celebration of National Nutrition Month. According to EatRight.org, “The National Nutrition Month 2013 theme, “Eat Right, Your Way, Every …
Posted in Medicine and Health Sciences, Psychology, Research Paper Help, Sciences
Tagged Footnotes, free reading, health, nutrition
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How to conduct Quantitative Research in the social sciences
In our ongoing series of “how-to” posts, we wanted to alert those students studying the social sciences how they can take advantage of Questia’s large database of content to conduct quantitative research. We at Questia continue to pursue our goal …
Posted in Research Paper Help, Sciences, Student resources
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Celebrating Black History Month: Top 5 African-American authors
With Black History Month on our minds, we determined Questia’s top 5 most-read African-American authors. To celebrate February, we’ve unlocked the reference books to these authors on Questia, the online research tool and library of over 77,000 academic books and …
How to write a term paper for your target audience: Your professors and peers
Like the conversations you have with people, it’s not just the message that matters, it’s also the audience. Keep that same consideration in mind as you write your term paper and ask yourself “who’s reading this” and “what message do …
Posted in Research Paper Help
Tagged peer-review, professor, Q&Anewsletter, target audience, teaching assistant
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Improve academic relationships with your professor, TA and RA
Welcome to a new semester of school. A new semester means that you will have new courses and new academic relationships. As you meet friends through your time at school, you will also meet dozens of instructors and advisors that …
Posted in College Success Tips
Tagged mentor, professor, Q&Anewsletter, resident advisor, teaching assistant
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Winter break reading list
Congratulations on completing your finals and finishing up another semester. Winter break is the time to relax and catch up on some leisure reading that you may not have time for during the semester. On the reading list below are …
Posted in Literature, Student resources
Tagged christmas, holiday books, literature, reading list, winter break
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Finals week also means turning in final research papers
You may have been researching and brainstorming for weeks, but sometimes polishing your paper up with the final details can be exhausting and it’s tempting to rush through them for the sake of getting the paper done. Try these hints …
Posted in Research Paper Help
Tagged finals week, Q&Anewsletter, research paper, research paper tips
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Good research paper topics for college students
You’ve considered our tips, you’ve learned all the tricks, but you’re having trouble just getting started on your research paper. Good research paper ideas take creativity but sometimes choosing a research topic is the most difficult part, so we’ve gathered …