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Keeping in touch with Teachers

We send our children off in the morning, somewhere around 8am, not to hear from them again until around 3pm. That’s at least six hours of no communication with your children, we don’t know what they’re doing, who they’re hanging out with, or even if they’ve eaten all their lunch. Sending your child off to school can actually be a little nerve racking sometimes. How many of you have had a child come home and say that it was a bad day because so and so was picking on them, or they had a fight with their friend? How do … Continue reading →

The Differences between Academic Writing and Email Writing

With communication being a text message away, there are positives and negatives about the new trend of fast finger communication. Besides using our fingers to type out messages from anywhere in the world at any time; what are the differences between academic writing and email writing? Although from the title of this blog, you probably don’t need me to explain the differences as once made aware of it, many students realize the differences. But for the fun of it, I’ll go through a few of the common mistakes. 1) Academic writing follows certain formats. For instance there is APA (American … Continue reading →