Tips Tuesday

Here are excerpts from the most recent tips on SlawTips, the site that each week offers up useful advice, short and to the point, on practice, research, writing and technology.

Practice

Use Your Words (A 30-Day Challenge!)
Sandra Bekhor

It’s so tempting to scroll through your LinkedIn feed and ‘like’ stuff, isn’t it? There is so much pressure to show up and post something. Everyone else seems to be. But is hitting the ‘like’ button really the right response? …

Research & Writing

Past or Present?
Neil Guthrie

A student who is helping a partner with writing a book (I hope he gets due credit) called to ask which verb tense to use in describing cases. My answer was that it depends on context. …