{"id":46447,"date":"2023-09-28T04:11:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T04:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=46447"},"modified":"2023-09-28T04:11:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T04:11:14","slug":"academic-habits-slide-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/academic-habits-slide-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic habits: slide rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about academic rules-of-thumb: the tutor mentions slide rules.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not old enough (believe it or not) to have used a slide rule. However, I have been taught some slide rules. By this I mean rules about making good slides for a slide presentation (such as with PowerPoint).<\/p>\n<p>\nOne rule about making a good slide, supposedly, is that there shouldn&#8217;t be much text on it &#8211; perhaps a maximum of three or four lines. Most people seem to know this rule, but most people seem to break it. Often, they roll out a slide with several paragraphs of text, apologizing.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about academic rules-of-thumb: the tutor mentions slide rules. I&#8217;m not old enough (believe it or not) to have used a slide rule. However, I have been taught some slide rules. By this I mean rules about making good slides &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/academic-habits-slide-rules\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Academic habits: slide rules<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-habits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46452,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46447\/revisions\/46452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}