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Many students make brilliant use of media in their work, embedding audio files and video clips in their presentations, but the habit of grazing among many data streams leaves telltale signs in their writing, according to some educators. "The breadth of their knowledge and their ability to find answers has just burgeoned," says Roberts of his students at Stanford, "but my impression is that their ability to write clear, focused and extended narratives has eroded somewhat." Says Koonz: "What I find is paragraphs that make sense internally, but don't necessarily follow a line of argument...
...looking forward to teaching it again in 2006-07, and in the foreseeable future. A number of my colleagues are also happy to teach the course. Lack of professorial interest cannot be advanced as an argument for scrapping this course that provides undergraduates with both the chronological breadth and the continuity necessary if one is to understand historical development. ANGELIKI E. LAIOU Cambridge, Mass. March 10, 2006 The writer is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History...
D?j? vu is, of course, a French concept, and it?s happening all over again this week as students battle police outside the Sorbonne in Paris' Latin Quarter. This week?s escalating conflict doesn?t have the same breadth or resonance as the famed riots of May 1968, when French students dug up cobblestones and tossed them at the police. But the problems it presents to the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, and what it says about France's continuing struggles to rein in its welfare state, are more than academic...
...surprisingly, the book’s effort to appeal to a wide audience means that it has more breadth than depth; but chances are, you’ll be so diverted by the diagrams, questionnaires, and often hilarious testimonials that you won’t even notice the relative superficiality of its content...
...Given the depth and breadth, I thought it went well,” said KSG student Parsa S. Sajid, one of the forum’s three organizers...