Word: argumentative
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During the two-hour drive from Montreal, where U2 played the previous night, Bono flips through manila folders full of briefing papers to prepare for meetings with Canada's opposition leaders. He fires a few croaky-throated questions at Drummond--"What is this soft-lumber argument between Canada and the U.S.?"--and tries out phrases for the media scrum that will start the day, imagining how they will play in the Canadian papers. "'Make-or-break month for Martin, says Bono,'" he sighs. "Not exactly poetry...
...should encourage TF’s to clarify the points of lecture, summarize readings, and offer relevant theories and context for the week’s discussion. There is a great disparity in familiarity with theory, and even a bullet-point summary of the tenets of a complicated theoretical argument would help students discuss the material in a meaningful...
...While many of its alums stay in education, it nonetheless implies that teaching, while a demanding occupation, can be merely a two-year prelude to one of those “real” professions like law or medicine that require years of training. Essentially, the program makes the argument that smart people are ready to teach a full load of classes in some of the nation’s toughest schools after only five to six weeks of summer training. Unsurprisingly, the evidence suggests that better training for corps members would benefit both teachers and students. A strong majority...
...Review the Teaching of Writing and Speaking in Harvard College—one of seven committees under the Harvard College Curricular Review—released a report calling for the integration of public speaking into the undergraduate curriculum.“The teaching of public speaking and oral argument is scant, for many students non-existent, and must be revived vigorously,” the report states.“Oral communication should be taught as public speaking and also as debate and oral argument,” it continues. “A specific course or courses in public...
Later in the argument, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked Clement what sorts of measures law schools could take to disassociate themselves from the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...