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Free sign upThe phrase "a lecture in self" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a discussion or presentation about self-awareness or self-improvement, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The speaker delivered a lecture in self that encouraged attendees to reflect on their personal growth."
Alternatives: "a talk on self" or "a presentation about self".
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The subject of "Tammy" is the very definition of the middle class — its nonexistence, with one foot slipping into poverty, dependency, and despair and the other perilously clung to by those who've climbed to higher economic echelons and reach out a helping hand (and then, with safety momentarily restored, offer a lecture in self-sufficiency).
Conway, for his part, said that he was "always amused" to "get a lecture in constitutional law from a self-certified ophthalmologist".
He works as a lecture in School of Computer &Software, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology.
Include a lecture in a footnote source.
In Psychology of the Moral Self, in a lecture on "The Organisation of Intelligence", Bosanquet argues that "[t]he psychical elements of the mind are so grouped and interconnected as to constitute what are technically known as Appercipient masses or systems" (op. cit., p. 42).
This was, interestingly enough, a cause that the usually self-effacing Constance had eloquently championed in a lecture with the provocative title "Clothed in our Right Minds".
I also sit in on a lecture given by a self-described mental health professional, who goes over the reasons humans kill each other.
Timothy Leary on a lecture tour in 1969.
Cite a lecture source in the bibliography.
None of this remotely resembles a lecture – but just in case, Pascoe inserts a self-mocking line in each instance suggesting that it may not be the culture that's at fault, but her reaction to it.
Noam Chomsky delivered a public lecture in Boston.
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