Especially well-educated people increasingly say / write that opinions should only be expressed if they are well informed. For example, social media is forced to post a warning or to remove bad or uninformed opinions that are shared or read beyond a threshold. What 's wrong with this?

A previous paper published in this journal proposed a model for evaluating the location of fingermarks on two-dimensional items (de Ronde, van Aken, de Puit and de Poot (2019)). In this paper, we apply the proposed model to a dataset consisting of letters to test whether the activity of writing a letter …

Among other things, learning to write entails learning how to use complex sentences effectively in discourse. Some research has therefore focused on relating measures of syntactic complexity to text quality. Apart from the fact that the existing research on this topic appears inconclusive, most of it …

One in three university students experiences mental health problems during their study. A similar percentage leaves higher education without obtaining the degree for which they enrolled. Research suggests that both mental health problems and academic underperformance could be caused by students lacking …

The purpose of this thesis assignment is to write a strategical advice for TSH Amsterdam City to adjust their co-living concept to enhance the guest experience of the students. Currently, the client is facing many complaints from the in-house student community. These unsolved complaints led to unsatisfied …

This thesis covers the topic of ‘Optimal management of equine pastures’. From the equine sector, a request was made for more knowledge on the topic of pasture management. The main problem with gaining information on this topic is not the lack of existing knowledge, but the knowledge being spread over …

That expressive writing can be a beneficial response to trauma or grief is well-established in the literature. Grief research also shows that the majority of people are resilient in the face of the death of loved ones. That said, traditional rituals around loss are no longer ubiquitous, well-known phase …

From 1478 to 1485 Desiderius Erasmus studied at the Latin school in Deventer. In 1509 he wrote his  amous work In Praise of Folly in London. In this work the goddess Folly decides to write an eulogy about herself, which she defends by saying that this is much better than the aristocrats, who pay someone …

This graduation research thesis is written following the assignment conducted at the Own Greenscompany to write a protocol for the use of increased concentrations of CO2 for the production oftheir crops. As a result of writing that protocol, it was researched what these effects of increased CO2concentrations …

The purpose of this report is to document research at The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS) on the topic of the importance of culture in the differences in perceived effectiveness of advertisements between Surinamese and Dutch individuals in the Netherlands. The researcher came up with this …