Bio: Ernesto CastaƱeda is the Director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, Founding Director of the Immigration Lab, and Graduate Program Director of the MA in Sociology, Research, and Practice. He conducts research on migration, urban issues, health disparities, marginalized populations, and social movements. He compares immigrant integration and ethnic political mobilization ā¦ Read more
Walter Benjamin was a germanĀ frankfurt school marxist who wrote The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction in 1936 after he fled Germany in 1932, when Hitler took power. Benjamin wrote this work when Fascism and Nazism were on rise and the world was moving forward in the strong influence of mass production ā¦ Read more
History, we may simply claim, is a flawed discipline since it is very prejudiced. It is a set of multiple narratives, unlike other disciplines, there are no paradigms or fixed notions in a discipline like this, since, more or less, from what I could gather, it has been written in a certain way and different ā¦ Read more
Raise a finger if you have heard of the academic journal āScienceā. Raise a finger if you have cited āScienceā in your work. Raise a finger if you have read an article in āScienceā out of curiosity. Raise a finger if you are a regular reader of the journal. Raise a finger if you have ā¦ Read more
A research paper is a piece of academic writing which involves an in-depth study of a research object or field. To collect data on a particular research topic, researchers conduct experiments or fieldwork, and draw conclusions from it. Writing a research paper is not exclusive to the natural sciences. Social scientists also heavily rely on ā¦ Read more
As a college student, the most prominent method of evaluation in oneās curriculum is engaging in the process of academic writing. Students at the university level are expected to write well-informed, un-plagiarized content that draws upon credible sources. Contrary to its purpose of serving as an outlet for creativity and ideas, many times, academic writing ā¦ Read more
Coursework Writing Guide ā The realm of academia is filled with synonymous words that are not really synonymous in technicality. Terminologies and distinct meanings attached to them form the world of academics. Assessments situations for university students, such as an assignment, term paper, response paper, reflective essay, coursework, dissertation, and exam, are those few words ā¦ Read more
