Are you in a mastermind? Now, I know what you’re thinking: what’s a mastermind? Actually, it’s more likely that you know what a mastermind is and are a member of a great one. Or perhaps you are like Fessik and say, “I am the mastermind”. Regardless of your participation or lack thereof, a mastermind can […]
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When I was a child my mother told me that the secret to cooking was following the directions. Whether she was right or not, I can’t attest for my cooking never amounted to much and neither did my ability to follow directions. Even if my cooking doesn’t follow the directions, I have found that some
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We’ve looked at ANI charts. We’ve started the procedure for systematically writing a great essay. What about math problems? Especially those pesky word problems? Working with a word problems is the unraveling of a great essay. Essentially, we take all of the information in the problem, filter it, draw it, organize it, and make conclusions
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If you’ve been in Amanda’s writer’s society for any length of time, you’ve definitely heard the term ANI chart. ANI is an acronym that stands for Affirmative, negative, and interesting information about a specific issue. The idea of creating an ANI chart around a thesis is from the writing program called The Lost Tools of
The plan was to read A Christmas Carol, evenly distributed throughout the period of Advent, concluding on Christmas Eve. Unfortunately, or rather, fortunately, my family loves this story so much, we ended up finishing it two weeks early. As a kid, I remember disliking the story, mostly due to the dark cinematography of the various
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