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Dude, my nerd-dar is tingling.

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Yeah, my nerd-dar went ablaze when I first heard that this journal was coming out.

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AWESOME! Thank you for linking, Deb. Also: I hope you are feeling a little better today.

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Yes, I am. Thanks.

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Oh my, this is such a good medium outlets for literary nerds!
Weee, I already get excited for the essays just by seeing this.

Thank you so much, debbie. *hugs*

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You know I'll have to write something. I have to decide what, though.
I'm thinking of fixing up one part of my author intent essays--the part about Tanabata for the praxis section.

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*meeps* One of my professors is on the board. x.x So I'm not sure if I should submit anything... *is now terrified to pieces*

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I'd be bummed if you didn't! I'm sure there's going to be a rush of papers and the whole academic first year will be filled up in no time, but it's exciting just to think about preparing something! If you get an idea for a paper soon, let me know!

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I'm a Master's student; the problem is my ideas are not analytical enough and usually tend towards the sociolinguistic side. Might see about the essays, as that seems like they require less... hard data? (No thorough studies, for example.)

Might keep it in mind for the papers I have to do anyhow too, though I've no idea where to get the data from. (And as evidenced on bleachness, my Japanese isn't that good for translating terms, else I'd offer to help you if you need.)

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We also encourage authors to consider writing personal essays integrated with scholarship, hypertext articles, or other forms that embrace the technical possibilities of the Web and test the limits of the genre of academic writing.

That sounds very welcoming. I'm thinking literary journal standards, not humanities journal standards, maybe.

If I ever get my act together about a paper, I'll let you know--you sound like you'd be a great beta reader. It's been so long since I wrote ANYTHING according to MLA standards--I don't even know how they've changed....

heee.

Nerd-sense ablaze here.

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It was so weird when I've had English professors (i.e., professors from England, in this case) recommend using APA format; I stared at the screen, and at the professor. Being recommended to do something in another format that you're hardly used to, in another country no less, is a bit weird, though I think they were mostly recommending it for consistency purposes (as the professor amended the recommendation to reflect just a desire for consistency).

What ideas did you have for papers and essays? I was actually recommended to bleachness because of your essays, so I'd be quite interested to see what sort of topics you were keen on writing about.

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Hoo Lordy, I've never written anything in APA style and I have absolutely no background in psychology beyond a bunch of undergraduate classes and a personal history of neurosis, but I would LOOOVE to write an article about the phenomenon of shipping.

I think the personal essay route would be the easiest for me since there's no way I'm about to handle data and surveys although my friend Sinta is into that aspect of approaching fandom topics.

I'll have to think about this one.

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The personal essays do seem like the type of thing to 'cut your teeth on', so to speak; if you don't have enough material for an article, for example, or want to relate a particular incident.

I'll have to have a think about it; if nothing else I could use my convention-panel experiences (and my rants about Japanese language and cultural references) for the essays.

Would you mind being a beta reader, if I get something coherent together?

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I'd be more than pleased to beta-read! I'm chomping at the bit!

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I've an idea for an essay, but I'll probably post it to bleachness, as a draft - and besides, that way I can garner more specific information from those in the community, because when the particular manga volumes were released, I wasn't in the fandom. x.x

But first, a crucial question: how is Gin described in the Japanese-language manga, particularly his expression? (I've a feeling it's 「狐の目」, but I want to double-check.)

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Vaguely tempted to do something like a review (as they term it) or symposium about CLAMP, but only very vaguely as I am not that good at doing essays or critical writing at a university academical standard.
Or authors in some cases supporting fanwriters.

But if not, at least some of them would be interesting to read.

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Do eeeeeeet. You could put something up on your LJ and if you wanted to fix it up for submission, I could help.

My literary nerd jollies are having a field day today.

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There is a reason why I'm staying away from any English curriculum which involves this sort of writing. I can do the thinking, just referencing and writing. XP

CLAMP has almost nothing biographical published into English... Even if I do recall a couple of interviews somewhere. *flails about madly*

I'll think about it.

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