{"id":920,"date":"2014-04-24T11:52:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/eminamide\/?p=920"},"modified":"2014-04-24T11:52:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T18:52:08","slug":"why-we-write-things-on-white-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/eminamide\/2014\/04\/24\/why-we-write-things-on-white-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Write Things on White Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">So just a little humor.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">On Tuesday, during a\u00a0library instruction session for my English 100 students, reference librarian April Cunningham introduced the concept of truncation as a strategy to generate more results in a database search.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">She repeated the word several times and even encouraged students to &#8220;write this down&#8221; because they&#8217;re likely to forget once they get home.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">At the end of our sessions, I had a follow-up in-class writing task. One of my questions was, &#8220;Write down three new strategies that you learned during today&#8217;s instruction.&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">Most students mentioned truncation. However, nearly all of them called it &#8220;trunking.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">One student called it &#8220;tree trunking,&#8221; and another called it &#8220;chunkation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So just a little humor.On Tuesday, during a\u00a0library instruction session for my English 100 students, reference librarian April Cunningham introduced the concept of truncation as a strategy to generate more results in a database search.She repeated the word several times &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/eminamide\/2014\/04\/24\/why-we-write-things-on-white-board\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3e3Em-eQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/eminamide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/eminamide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/eminamide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/eminamide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/eminamide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/eminamide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/eminamide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/eminamide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/eminamide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/eminamide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}