Professor Dre Betancourt

05/02/2022

Come work with me!!! Please share widely with qualified professors of communication studies! Cake that my student brought to our end-of-the-semester class celebration. https://mc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/external/job/Communication-Studies-Full-time-Faculty--2-openings-_R3381

10/09/2020

For those interested, live now (no recording): Rainbow Rowell, YA author

If characters fall in love, feel like they’re screwing up, and love to talk all at the same time, New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell loves to write about them. Readers can’t get enough of her wide array of writing, from her adult and YA novels, including Carry On, and it’s sequel...

07/23/2020

How many years old?

A lot of people get confused about when to use hyphens when writing ages, and I think it’s because sometimes an age is a noun, sometimes an age is an adjective that comes before a noun and modifies it, and sometimes an age is an adjective that comes after a noun. When to Hyphenate Ages First

06/08/2020

The dictionary shows full-time hyphenated as an adverb. …He works full-time. …She was there full-time. As an adjective, it follows the rules: Hyphenate it as a direct adjective; do not hyphenate it when it is not in front of the noun. …He has a full-time job. …His job is full time. Part-time...

06/08/2020

Representative Image Image Content MITACs Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Canadian Q***r Audiovisual Collections Professor Janine Marchessault, Project Director of Archive/Counter-Archive and The ArQuives, are pleased to announce a competition for a 1-year MITACs Accelerate Post-Doctoral Fellowship posi...

01/02/2019

Internships Black Women Build – Baltimore is looking for interns! Please familiarize yourself with our mission and the specifics of the positions listed below. If you are interested, contact us at [email protected]. If we think you might be a good fit, we will contact you to set up a phon...

11/19/2018

I may have to order these awesome posters!

The most feared punctuation on earth.

11/19/2018

Anyone who’s used the English language knows from direct experience that multiple spellings of many words exist. Such is the case with this set of words. Firsthand (all one word) is an adjective meaning that the information was obtained from personal experience or an original source; to wit: Thank...

09/28/2018

Scientific research has shown how children learn to read and how they should be taught. But many educators don't know the science and, in some cases, actively resist it. As a result, millions of kids are being set up to fail.

09/11/2018

07/05/2018

Accents can be subject to subtle forms of prejudice, but does that mean some are more appealing and trustworthy than others? BBC Future takes a look.