[game_edu] How not to write a college essay about videogames

[Ian Schreiber]

There is also the books "Well Played" and "The Game Design Reader" - both are 
collections of essays on games. For budget-conscious students, the former is 
available as a free download, while the latter contains many essays that are 
available online if you google them :-)

- Ian




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From: Aaron Chia Yuan Hung <aaron.chiayuanhung at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tue, June 28, 2011 9:44:39 PM
Subject: Re: [game_edu] How not to write a college essay about videogames

There's an online journal "e-Learning and Digital Media" 
(http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/) that publishes more scholarly game reviews. 
I've written some of them, but there are others. I believe most of them are free 
to download now.

You should encourage your students to contribute to the journal and write up 
scholarly game review. 


On Jun 28, 2011, at 8:29 PM, Guilherme (Kurama) wrote:

That was very enlightening!

>I am student myself, and recently I have faced the challenge of writing a 

>scientific paper on video-game development and Computer Science. It was really 

>hard to let go the "awesomeness" and "adrenaline-pumping" words of my mind when 

>thinking about advanced computer technology and algorithms in AAA games.

>

>By the way, I liked your blog =)

>

>

>On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Darius Kazemi <darius.kazemi at gmail.com> wrote:

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>Hey all,

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>>I rarely self-promote here, but I thought you might get a kick out of this blog 

>>post I wrote:

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>>http://tinysubversions.com/2011/06/how-not-to-write-college-essay-about-video-games

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>>It comes directly from a class exercise where I provided the class a contrived 

>>example of bad student writing, and we corrected it as a class.

>>

>>-Darius

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