Under two experimental conditions, undergraduate writers were guided by different achievement goals to write an essay with or without the copy-and-paste function on a website.
One of his most significant achievements is to write about class with the elegance of Harold Pinter, Joe Orton and Arnold Wesker - whom he greatly admires - while articulating America's own unique relationship with it.
I've taught in a major metropolitan area where there are enough collectors and galleries to support budding art graduates, where there are museums and art centers to codify their achievements, where critics abound to write about them, and successful colleagues are there to inspire and compete with.
The Tate made no such bold commitment, and now appears to want to write his achievement out of history.
"Learning has shifted from an intellectual achievement to a commodity," they write, in a blog that strikes a chord with so many that it has received more 4,000 comments so far.
When Lady Mary Lygon was elected to the London Library in 1946 (not a major achievement), Waugh wrote to congratulate her: I hope you will always remember to behave yourself with suitable decorum in those grave precincts.
This US chart peak was in fact quite an achievement, Madinger and Easter write, given that the single was issued too late to take advantage of holiday-season programming.
The Kosovo and Timor operations' prime achievement, he writes, was to establish the norm of resort to force without Security Council authorization.
It was Dame Felicitas Corrigan, a close friend at the end of his life, who best expressed the full range of his achievement when she wrote to Sassoon the year before his death: "To me you are a 20th-century portent: you have summed up in your personal experience the war-tortured, spiritually-bewildered, forsaken and blindly-seeking men of our times".
Yet Duckworth and her colleagues caution that motivation isn't everything: The lower role for motivation in academic achievement, they write, suggests that "earning a high IQ score requires high intelligence in addition to high motivation".
