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Master baiter
In: Education
8 Feb 2010
Finally! A bit of time to blog. For the past month, I’ve been splitting my time between work and thesis writing. And boy that wasn’t a pleasant experience at all on so many levels. I remember the pressures of [...]
The originality of thought
10 Jan 2010It really is a hard thing to come up with something original these days. That proverbial bucket in the sea of knowledge is a constant bitching reminder that no matter how much you read and learn, you won’t be able to match the billions of Google’s indexed pages.
Makes you wonder how difficult it really [...]
More idiot than savant
In: Education
7 Jan 2010Part of the tasks of descriptive linguistics is to seek out patterns which shouldn’t be that much of an effort since humans are said to be innately equipped with capacities to seek out patterns. And the task seems to be easier with analytic languages like English where logic is tied to word order.
Some people are [...]
How does one delimit a blog post?
6 Mar 2009Quite a lot of students are working on blogs for their term papers and even undergraduate thesis. Those would include me, since I’m working on a critical discourse analysis of the Philippine blogosphere (particularly the discourse of the de la Paz-Pangandaman issue).
Two studies to which I’m paying close attention two are 1) [...]
Ready… Set… Write!
In: Education
11 Feb 2009As of today, I am embarking on the second longest writing work of my life – my graduate thesis.
My undergraduate thesis was a critical discourse analysis of the Inquirer’s representations of Fernando Poe Jr. in its editorials. It was a fun topic to write about. Nearly got me the best thesis award for the year [...]
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