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		<title>Tuesday Tutoring Tip for November 17, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday Tutoring Tip for November 17, 2009
Always avoid articulating an argument as based around or off of anything;
also adhere to the appropriate application, based on.  Arguments and
theories, much like buildings are based on something, not based around or
based off of anything.  An item’s base is found at the bottom, so it only
makes sense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TUESDAY TUTORING TIP for November 10, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The tired troublemakers taunt the tutors who tout trigonometry to terrified teens trying to tug their tent taut in a thunderstorm.   These three “T-words” sound alike, but have very different meanings. Taut (also not to be confused with taught, the past tense of teach) means tight, as in “the rope was pulled taut,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday Web Wrap-up for 11/11/2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WEDNESDAY WEB WRAP-UP for November 11, 2009
Today is Veterans’ Day, also once known as Armistice Day; it honors our military veterans.  November 11th also commemorates the end of the Great War, World War I. Accordingly, today’s Wrap-up is “Iowa in the Great War,” a special project of IAGenWeb, an Iowa history and genealogy site. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wordpress.morningside.edu/learningcenter/2009/11/13/wednesday-web-wrap-up-for-11112009/</link>
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		<title>Wednesday Web Wrap-up for 11/4/2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WEDNESDAY WEB WRAP-UP for November 4, 2009
Today’s Wrap-up is a free full text database from the National Institutes of Health.  Although from its name, Pubmed Central, one would think that its content is limited to medical science related articles, I have discovered over time that its coverage reflects the breadth of the life sciences. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wordpress.morningside.edu/learningcenter/2009/11/13/wednesday-web-wrap-up-for-1142009/</link>
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		<title>Wednesday Web Wrap-up for 10/28/2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, the World Series starts and as such, it seems apropos that baseball is this week’s theme. Two sites are featured here. Baseball-almanac.com is a database having all sorts of baseball trivia imaginable.  Here you will find history of the game, team histories and individual player records. 
Major League Baseball also has it official [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wordpress.morningside.edu/learningcenter/2009/11/13/wednesday-web-wrap-up-for-10292009/</link>
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		<title>Wednesday Web Wrap-up for 10/21/2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WEDNESDAY WEB WRAP-UP for October 21, 2009
This week’s Wrap-up might be especially helpful to senior education majors who are or will be writing their “issues” paper soon. Edutopia is the work of George Lucas of Star Wars fame and the Foundation named for him. According to its founders, Edutopia is a “place where children become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday Tutoring Tip for November 3, 2009</title>
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TUESDAY TUTORING TIP for November 3, 2009
(Advising Day Edition)

An annoying ambiguity assails anyone attempting assembly of an article about advising; always act with appropriate awareness. The Morningside College website’s College Planning Timelines page advises freshmen to “Get acquainted with faculty, academic advisors and counselors who can help you with your career plans,” yet if “adviser” is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday Tutoring Tip for October 27, 2009</title>
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Effective educators embrace and encourage
by eradicating errors entwining eminent and imminent in every context.
These two words are easily confused because they sound so much
alike. Eminent means prominent or famous; “The eminent scholar
easily defeated the upstart politician in the debate.” One
common use of this word describes the government’s power to
confiscate private property for public good.   The term
“eminent domain,” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wordpress.morningside.edu/learningcenter/2009/10/27/tuesday-tutoring-tip-for-october-27-2009/</link>
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		<title>Wednesday Web Wrap-up for 10/14/2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This comes to you from Library Services at Morningside College &#8230;
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Back on March 5th of last year, I featured The Encyclopedia of Life as a Wrap-up.  At the time, I described it as a work in process and suggested frequent visits to the site.  This week’s WWW again features this online reference database. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wordpress.morningside.edu/learningcenter/2009/10/16/wednesday-web-wrap-up-for-10142009/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Tutoring Tip for October 13, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday Tutoring Tip for October 13, 2009
Always annunciate and articulate all the Ss in asterisk; avoiding the aft S assembles asterik, an absurd abomination that advertises anti-awareness. Some people pronounce (and spell) this word without its second S.  These people do themselves a disservice.  The word itself comes from the Greek word asteriskos, [...]]]></description>
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