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It has been a tough week here at Road 2 Graduation, and most of you will know that I’ve been sick, but I’ve managed to keep people updated with what I was doing by twitter. Not wanting to draw your attention away from the roundup too much, I’m just letting you all know I’m a lot better and in full writing swing!

Here we go….

1. Academy concern over decline in Language study

An interesting article on why academics are worried about why students in the UK aren’t being taught all they can about different languages, and actually learning a foreign language. Interesting really, as I seem to have seen a similar article to this a few years ago!

2. Seven Habits of Highly Innovative People

When I read this post over at thinksimplenow.com, ideas suddenly popped into my mind of entrepreneurial people I studied with during my time at University. Looking at habits, taking risks and recording what you have done (accomplished and failed), this article is a really good read for all.

3. Thanksgiving and the Story we tell Ourselves

I was a little curious this week to find out how our friends ‘over the pond’ celebrate thanksgiving and what it is actually celebrating/remembering. I truly interesting post by lifehack.org

4. 5 reasons to get a Public Library card

An interesting post by a guest blogger over at Gearfire.net. Thought the title was strange as I haven’t been into my local public library for a number of years, but this post may just ‘tap’ me in the right direction to go and have a look to see what’s changed.

5. How to take notes on PowerPoint slides

Cal’s post on PowerPoint for student presenters is a really good post and got my attention straight away. Useful information for everyone in academia.

6. Don’t you Dare…in a Formal Paper

that college kid identifies what you shouldn’t put into your paper if writing at college/university. A couple of really good examples.

7. Top 5 Departure Tips

Stephen over at Study in the UK Blog provides International students with some quick tips when they’re going to travel abroad to study. Having friends and making them before you travel can be crucial, as you’ll have some one to talk to, or go for a beer with when you first get to the country and university you’re visiting.

I’ll be popping up another couple of posts over the next few days.

I’m back and have an abundance of information to pass on. For those who wondered where in the hell the Sunday review was, and a Monday Roundup then I apologise. Being sick really frustrates me, and I was sick to the point where I have been unable to post anything and I didn’t have any posts completed posts to publish on the blog. This just reiterates my thoughts on planning and developing your writing (need to take my own advice I think!)

In development

I’ve got some series of posts that will be coming up over the next few weeks or so and will be ideal reading as we head up to the Christmas holidays. I’m planning ahead my posts and am even writing my Christmas eve post as we speak – its on a topic that I really enjoy and want to get the bulk of it written now.

I’m currently producing a post for the Monday Roundup, but felt it best to delay the Sunday review until next week, as I really want to concentrate on other material posts that I believe will bring you more value – plus I think these posts will interest you more too.

I’ll be putting a few posts up in the next few hours, so watch out for them and here’s to future planning

If you’ve just recently stopped by the Road 2 Graduation blog then you will have noticed that there’s been a couple of changes. We’ve changed the top banner to be a little more attractive to everyone visiting the blog. This was won in a contest over at onlinecashflow.org and I’m very grateful for the work that Jeremy has put in to the banner, as well as with all my changes to the original design. If you’re looking for some great money making tips, then please head over to onlinecashflow.org, and you are probably best to sign up to his RSS feed to keep updated with what’s going on over there.

I’ve also managed to get my favicon up onto the site:

and you should be seeing this in your browsers over the next few days when they refresh – or so I’m led to believe.

Hopefully these changes and others over the coming weeks will help the R2G site improve and increase readability for all.

If anyone has any comments or suggestions then please leave a comment.

Once again thank you to Jeremy for the banner:

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Some regular readers may have noticed that the R2G Sunday Review and the Monday Roundup have just appeared in your RSS feed – are you a bit confused? Was your reader not working properly? Did you have Internet connection?

Well, not one of the above reasons caused the issue, I the author, did. I went away for a few days and popped the posts up there on wordpress, using BlogJet. I failed to double check that the posts were published/due to publish and happily went on my way – a mistake I’ll never do again.

Not double checking that the posts are definitely due to be published was a truly amateur mistake and I accept that I should have double and triple checked the process between BlogJet (the writing software that I use to write my posts and upload to wordpress) and wordpress (the software loaded onto my server which publishes the posts and formats the information so it’s readable). I thought BlogJet would do one thing, but it didn’t and I failed to check everything was OK in the R2G wordpress control panel, duh!

I’m researching and writing this week’s posts as you are reading this, and I’ll make sure we don’t have any more hiccups in the future.

We can but learn from our mistakes!

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Once again I’ve been hot on the back of everyone’s tails trying to find some really good reads from the Internet. Looking to develop my web 2.0 strategies for this site, I’ve been looking through loads of articles and links.

Here’s to seven of the best…………

1. 10 Chemical free strategies to trick yourself out of the blues

The ririan project certainly impressed me with this blog post. Most of us about this time of the year do get a little ‘confused’ about the direction. This article really does help to identify what you can do if you are down and how to get on top again.

2. Improving your writing with some editing tips

Lifehack.org doesn’t fail to impress. I was going to publish a post about this during the week, but felt lifehack presented the information more clearly for you.

3. Top 5 Pre-Departure Tips

Study in the UK Blog brings us 5 tips to do before you depart for study in another country; this set of tips is part of a series that Stephen at the Study UK Blog will be producing over the coming weeks. A good, quick read.

4. Universities Fear funding shortfall

This article identifies that there are problems in funding within the Scottish Educational system. I was wondering the other day how the mortgage problems and Northern Rock having a few issues, whether students should be more aware of their finances!

5. Will the real Bucks University please stand up?

A post about competing universities in Buckinghamshire, where a Vice Chancellor is challenging the renaming of a college to become a university with a similar name to his. Quite amusing to see really, if you can’t ‘brand’ yourself as a university that has high calibre students and teaching would you need to fight your corner like this? I think not.

6. Young Doctors in Debt

If you’re looking at completing your final year then researching and thinking about your finances for when you graduate is a must. Hopefully this story will enlighten you to the outcomes that may occur.

7. Mistakes in Study – Why ‘Best Intensions’ aren’t always enough

Martin produces a quality post looking at good intensions and procrastination. Whilst at university I procrastinated a lot and have found some common ground with his writing – sometimes I used to misunderstand the important things (didn’t keep things in perspective) – I liked to party too much!

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