Sentence examples for usual academic from inspiring English sources

"I thought her article didn't measure up to the usual academic standards of Synthese at all," he said on Thursday.

He said he would place less emphasis on the council's usual academic discussions and focus more on business.

Like his father did before him, he seems likely to cut out the usual academic route into the French elite and plunge directly into local politics.

His first student was Ian McEwan, who, as well as submitting his usual academic work, insisted on turning in short stories as well.

By working in Venice, Mr. Kjartansson reenacted a dream of 19th-century painters, but without benefit of the usual academic training.

Jay Duffy, a legal fellow at the Clean Air Task Force, said the current BHI analysis of the EPA rules did not meet the usual academic standards.

I was interested to see that she had abandoned her usual middle-class academic setting for one of working-class hardship.

At five, the college's best tennis player, a botanist, picked me up, and we had a very pleasant game (the white shorts came in handy) till six, after which there was dinner (have had a dinner jacket on for three days in a row) and then the usual kind of academic reception at the college.

One night, bleary-eyed, he dashed off a paragraph about why he wanted to attend Duke — the usual boilerplate about academic rigor and his own intellectual curiosity, and, oh, yeah, he really liked their Lemur Center, the largest such reserve in the world, devoted to "the research and understanding of prosimians and their natural habitat," as he read online.

Ms. Gresser, the director of the Institute for School Board Leadership at Teachers College at Columbia University, said the new policy could be effective "as long as they don't just round up the usual suspects" of academic experts and policy advocates who have advised the board for decades.

This article diverges from the usual concept of academic research by offering several contrasting sections: a very personal story about how the author (and his young daughter) approached learning English, a research section on motivation, a practical section on how to incorporate Hip Hop into language learning, and some final personal comments.