{"id":1219,"date":"2008-02-13T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T18:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2008-02-13T14:15:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T18:15:22","slug":"how-to-ask-questions-of-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1219","title":{"rendered":"How to ask questions of faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again <a href=\"http:\/\/calnewport.com\/blog\/?p=274\">Cal Newport has solid advice<\/a> for college students: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be afraid to ask questions when confused in class. Use the following format: &lt;<em>this is my interpretation<\/em>&gt; + &lt;<em>this is what confused me<\/em>&gt; + &lt;<em>this is what I want to be clarified<\/em>&gt;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, yes, yes: don&#8217;t ask a vague question such as <em>Can you tell me again &lt;topic&gt;?<\/em> Instead, explain your <em>best<\/em> understanding, which will help me or my colleagues figure out if you&#8217;ve nailed it, if you&#8217;re in the ballpark but need some guidance, or if you&#8217;re out of the ballpark. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again Cal Newport has solid advice for college students: Don&#8217;t be afraid to ask questions when confused in class. Use the following format: &lt;this is my interpretation&gt; + &lt;this is what confused me&gt; + &lt;this is what I want to be clarified&gt; Yes, yes, yes: don&#8217;t ask a vague question such as Can you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education","category-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-jF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}