Travis Grandy is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Find him on Twitter @travisgrandy or at his website. I work with a lot of instructors who use ...

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If you’re a student, one of the more mundane, but vital, tasks you need to do is keep track of homework and other assignments. Any good calendar program can do this, including OS X’s own iCal, but I ...

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