Dr. Janine Keown-Gerrard has been a tutor and academic expert working at Athabasca University for 8 years now. Her courses include PSYC 304, PSYC 356, MATH 215, ORGB 300, and COMM 243. She tutors and advises approximately 150 students. Dr. Keown-Gerrard was recently interviewed by The Voice Magazine, and here is the gist of what… Read more »
Dear Members, You may have recently seen information on the internet speculating about the future of Athabasca University. These reports suggest that the Alberta government may broker a merger between AU and University of Alberta, and that this may result in drastic changes to the services and programs offered to students AU students. We want… Read more »
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. ” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Marc Vella is a French classical pianist and a composer who, for the last two decades, has traveled with a baby grand piano in a bus across more than forty countries, giving impromptu performances… Read more »
Dear Barb: My girlfriend and I have been dating for six months. I’m having a problem with the way she dresses. She wears low cut tops and very tight clothes. I know this is the style but I think she’s gone too far. I feel very uncomfortable with the attention she is drawing to herself… Read more »
Film: Inside Llewyn Davis Directors: Joel and Ethan Coen ? . . . because wherever I sat? on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok? I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.? – Sylvia Plath Watching Inside Llewyn Davis… Read more »
My recent stay at a downtown Edmonton hotel coincided with the city’s annual Downtown Dining Week. The 2014 version, the eleventh one, ran from March 14 to March 23 and involved many of Edmonton’s most popular and pricey downtown restaurants. This event, sponsored by the Downtown Business Association, is a way to showcase some of… Read more »
In most places and most times, biological gender wasn’t open for debate. You either had two X chromosomes or an X and a Y, making you female or male. From toys to jobs to bathrooms, tradition drew firm lines between the sexes. Now, a Saskatchewan mom wants the province to remove any record of a… Read more »
The past few weeks we’ve spent exploring the possessive case. We’ve looked at singular common nouns, plural common nouns, and proper nouns. Now It’s time to get into some of the tricky little exceptions?the ones that stump writers the most. This week we’ll discuss how to handle compound hyphenated words and joint possessives, and the… Read more »
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