How many Publications...? [Monday September 8th, 2008 12:07am] academics_anon [zenny23] How many peer reviewed journal articles do you think a PhD student should have published by the time they graduate in order to be competitive for a post-doc or the job market???  I know this may vary by field (My field is psychology btw) but it would be nice to have answers from a wide variety of fields to help out future grad students wondering the same thing. 36 | +

[Sunday September 7th, 2008 2:27pm] academics_anon [alfodr_blot] What would you do if you were being slandered by a group of teachers, with the intent of one of them to push you out of Graduate School unnoticed so they can plagiarize you?  I have been to a lawyer, but there is a statute of limitations to the slander, so now my next step is to keep from being plagiarized. 223 | +

[Sunday September 7th, 2008 5:54pm] risadeleche half & half 4 | +

words 2008 [Sunday September 7th, 2008 3:49pm] starlit__ CLEAR YOUR CALENDAR FOR NEXT WEEK! Actually don't, unless you live in Glasgow and are interested in writing and see something you like at the Words 2008 exhibition. If nothing else you should go to the panel discussion at 6.30PM on Thursday the 11th - the whisky tasting beforehand will guarantee some intellectual (and maybe not so intellectual) arguments. If you want to come and see me, I will be running a prose workshop at midday on Tuesday the 9th, and I'm a writer-in-residence at 10AM, and then reading at 4PM on Wednesday the 10th. 7 | +

It's not ONLY a movie... [Sunday September 7th, 2008 3:40am] academics_anon [sensaes] 'Plans to endow a Charlie Wilson chair in Pakistan studies at the University of Texas have riled the college’s liberal academics, who feel he is too “gung-ho” to be a role model for students. They say Wilson’s support for Afghans fighting Soviet occupiers during the 1980s, when he covertly funnelled American government aid to the mujaheddin, led to the rise of the Taliban and its allies in al-Qaeda. “It is outrageous,” said Dana Cloud, professor of communications at the university. “I thought it was a joke.”' http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4692251.ece 14 | +

[Saturday September 6th, 2008 11:59am] calisthenicsea Crossing every finger that I will get a job at the children's bookstore in Chelsea. I could eat baked potatoes for lunch and stop by the record store that only sells classical music on my way home. Little girls would eat pink cupcakes with flowers on top after their nannies (maybe their mothers) bought the next Nancy Drew book in the series for them. I would wear pinks and blues and light yellows and help kids find Ramona books and suggest Anne of Green Gables to any bright-eyed child that crossed my path. What a dream it would be! I seem to have lost my appetite this entire week. My roommate is worried and so am I. I eat when I am hungry but more often than naught I feel nauseated by the smell of the kitchen (balmy weather plus ethnic food spells very bad things for me apparently). Maybe I am pregnant, but that would clearly be divine intervention, considering who I am. I want to be hungry! I want to want food! :'( 7 | +

Rate-My-Professors and such [Saturday September 6th, 2008 9:59am] academics_anon [bluestocking7] My colleagues and I were recently in a mini-debate about http://www.ratemyprofessors.com and I would love to hear your take on this. We all agree that students seem to place more value on the site (and others like it on Facebook) than the instructors do. What we don't agree on is if they can be a useful tool or not. One argument says that we should acknowledge and embrace those sites - even add our reviews to our Teaching Portfolios because prospective employers will look there anyway, and the site is "less biased" than the in-class evaluations done at the end of the semester because they are unsolicited. The other school of thought is to ignore them altogether because the only students who add entries are those who really, really, really liked a professor...and those who absolutely did not...so it's a very skewed perspective on the far ends of the pendulum. So what do you all think? 113 | +

Non-published citing [Friday September 5th, 2008 11:32am] academics_anon [vaikuntha] Hi all, Is it acceptable to cite (yourself or others) based on work presented at a conference/seminar and the like? I'd be citing a presentation and I'd only have the person's name and year, but no page number. Is this commonly done? Thanks. 13 | +

this fool can die now [Thursday September 4th, 2008 5:16pm] garconniere [ mood | anxious ] [ music | scout niblet - miss my lion ] simon chante la partie de will oldham, moi je chante la partie de scout. i'll post pictures soon of the past two weeks of my life, c'est un peu fou. i was freaking out because my mac pretty much stopped working. the evil rainbow pinwheel of death, as i like to call it, would not stop spinning any time i tried to use my computer (which, obviously, sucks) which was frustrating because i was trying to help make things for people who were a little dependant on me. simon is in the middle of reformating my computer; it feels like a good clean slate. fingers crossed! i'm working on some writing; i'll be asking for your opinion soon and it would be helpful. it's been a while since i've thrown myself into a piece without having to. ce soir, on va voir le moulin images, ou un film inuk/québécois, "ce qu'il faut pour vivre" avec le star de "atarnujat/the fast runner." je pense que je vais faire beaucoup d'études sur les films québécois pendant que je fais ma maitrise à québec. i love this city. 7 | +

[Thursday September 4th, 2008 10:00pm] risadeleche my dni [national identity card] is expiring in 10 days and this is my new picture. don't misunderstand me, i'm not blaming anyone. i know some of you are my age or a little bit older, but the great majority of you are also younger than me. well, i was born in a place and in a time where doing anything else than preparing yourself for university was to be a loser. if you were not going to university your family was a loser too. everybody talked shit about you. painting, decorating, crafting, photography and sewing were not things to be interested in neither, they could be hobbies, but you should not show yourself very interested in them neither. i was like, very forced to chose what to study, i knew i wanted to study history since i was like 8 years old but because there was no other possible future. and now i see myself with 25 years, as a historian, a teacher, with 2 masters and a postgraduate degree asking myself what to do with my life. i am even thinking about learning how to bake properly or how to design shoes. i deeply envy everybody who choose to craft, paint, decorate, sew, cook or photograph. it was not an option to me, but i saw the real thing too late. i don't even think i am good at anything, i don't even know how to draw, i have no special talent for it, but that doesn't keep me from doing it. (  last night dinner, you already know that place ) 43 | +

Literature suggestions needed... [Wednesday September 3rd, 2008 7:00pm] academics_anon [feralparakeet] Not sure if this is suitable for the community, but it's worth a try... A transition to a new PhD coordinator and an administrator's extended absence has resulted in some confusion as to deadlines for turning in a paper for my oral exams this semester. I had previously been told by the coordinator that I shouldn't worry about the paper until after written exams are over at the end of the month. However, it came to light today that the paper is actually due on Friday. Thankfully, I have a paper that's not TOO far from being ready, and the decision was made to turn in a nearly-ready draft and turn in a final copy for circulation later this month. My paper is on the sustainability of community leadership programs, and while the models are pretty solid and won't need reworking (it was a paper for a methods course), I need to bulk up the literature review and bring in lots theory from sociology and related fields. I've found a few articles, but Google Scholar hasn't been much help and the relevant faculty in our sociology department weren't available this afternoon after the news came in. So, could any of you assist by suggesting names of authors or articles (apart from Putnam, obviously) that would fit into either of these categories? 1) Relationships between leadership skill and civic engagement and between community knowledge/awareness of issues and engagement 2) Factors affecting the sustainability of community-based programs... or anything discussing 'inertia' in the development of social groups, networks, or capital Thanks in advance - I -truly- appreciate it. 53 | +

[Wednesday September 3rd, 2008 5:21pm] risadeleche ayer me puse muy enferma. a mi las gripes me duran solo un día, pero vaya día. total, que casi se me corta la fiebre al ver este anuncio de lo horrible que me parece. limpiando unos cajones me encontré un sobre con 50€ así que nos vamos a comer unos nachos y al cine esta noche. 14 | +

Stage Fright and Problems with Defending [Wednesday September 3rd, 2008 9:46am] academics_anon [post_planomanic] Hey all -- I am ABD and coming to grips with the fact that my fear of public speaking may be a serious detriment to...many things, but the issue at hand is being more comfortable asserting myself and speaking up about my ideas, at conferences, in the classroom, with my colleagues, and in defending my dissertation to my committee. As you well know, being able to defend your ideas is crucial in grad school, and it's something I'm terrible at. I can effectively defend myself in writing till the cows come home, or even to my non-academic friends, but when I feel the least bit intimidated (by colleagues, professors, people I think are smarter than me), I freeze. I've always been wallpapery shy, so being the center of attention will likely *never* feel completely comfortable or natural; however, the lack of self-confidence is disconcerting, and I fear it could ultimately sabatage my academic future. Strangely, at non-academic jobs I am completely confident and assertive; there's just something about academia that cuts me to the quick and silences and belittles me (and ratchets up my low self-esteem) like nothing else. Which is probably why I decided to go to grad school in the first place, as I like a challenge, and I like to grow. And yes, I'm getting therapy about building self-confidence and trying to get at some of the underlying issues here (one of which may be my suffering from 'imposter syndrome,' as I'm first generation *high school graduate*), but I thought it would be useful for me to start seriously thinking about taking a more formal course dealing with fear of public speaking. So, I ask you all, does anyone know of affordable programs that have worked? These can be organized programs, or just strategies you've used to get at root problems relating to stage fright, or even ideas for dealing with low self-esteem when asked to defend your ideas.   X-posted to gradstudents 39 | +

Plagiarism, or a generational shift towards "magpie writing"? [Wednesday September 3rd, 2008 2:15am] academics_anon [sensaes] 'Some students, it seems, have shrugged off the old illusion of authorship in which “authors had a moral right to their own words and ideas” and have embraced instead “an ever-changing version of a self” involving “flexible social interaction and creative collaboration.” Authorship in this world is collaborative and “fluid.” It “celebrates the kind of creativity that comes from selecting, from accumulating a pastiche, a patchwork, a sample of others’ work.” [Susan] Blum invokes Facebook, Second Life, Wikipedia, Open Source software, YouTube, Flickr, iPods, and sampling in popular music as evidence of this de-authored world.' http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?Doc_Id=321 20 | +

exorbitant permissions fees? [Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 6:00pm] academics_anon [posthumanthony] A question for the published scholars in the humanities (or anyone else who can help): I'm currently in the final revision of a manuscript for an academic press.  Contracts are signed.  My editor has given me the green light to send in THE finished manuscript, which will then go up for proofs, etc.  I've also put in all of my permissions requests for material I've quoted "extensively," which, according to The Chicago Manual of Style and my publisher, is anything over 250 words.  My book is being published by an academic press, and will have a run of 500.  Penguin, the publisher of DeLillo's White Noise, wants $400 for approximately 900 words.  This seems rather exorbitant to me, but it's my first book and I don't really have a good frame of reference.  So, is this exorbitant?  One press has already given me permission for other material and isn't charging me a dime.  Should I brace for similar fees from the other presses?  I have a job and can pay the fees, but still ... ouch.  I was planning on buying snow tires this year.    15 | +

meet my sister's dog [Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 12:10am] garconniere i haven't even met this dog yet but i am in love. my little sister got this little dog named aspen and he is pretty much the cutest thing i've ever seen. ( Read more... ) off to quebec city for two weeks tomorrow! so excited to see simon! 1 | +

[Monday September 1st, 2008 11:07am] garconniere [ music | the microphones - the gleam pt. 2 ] there are a lot of things i want to/need to write about, but i simply cannot find the energy to be in front of a computer when it is 11:07 in the morning and the sun is shining brightly and it is a monday and i do not have to go to work. i want to put on my romper and go to the beach with mackenzie and morgan and maybe the two or three girls i have very big friend crushes on in this city but have yet to get the nerve to invite them to do things with me. not having a number really leaves the ball in my court. where could one canoe in this city? lately i've been battling with losing all of my therapeutic things; i realized this when i was freaking out in the city i used to call home while walking by myself and started crying. i just kind of stood there not knowing what to do. with no home, no friends for miles, and none of my thrift stores open on a sunday, and little money, i just bought myself a drink. that's a surefire way to alcoholism. i can't buy polaroid film anymore. thrift stores in this city are not nearly as fun as all of my little haunts in peterborough or trenton or quebec city. and i don't live with a cat anymore. i resort to playing silly little songs on my guitar, fiddling with my roommate's accordion, and putting on the prettiest dresses in my closet. but all of those involved being at my place in toronto. i'm thinking of buying a toy camera, a diana or a lomo or a holga, even though i couldn't possibly afford it. the noises, the feeling, the excitement of taking real photos with a real camera is something i miss very much and only associate with my old polaroid land camera. sara and i divorced; she broke my heart in june, and now we're going through the proceedings. i got the couch and shame, she got peterborough. 15 | +

[Monday September 1st, 2008 11:06am] garconniere [ music | the national - about today ] how can one be homeless yet have so many possessions? i'll find that place soon, i hope. 5 | +

Publishing and/or Reviewing Articles [Sunday August 31st, 2008 6:59pm] academics_anon [munchkin1616] I'm currently in an MSW (master's of social work) program with about 10 mos till graduation. I'm really interested in publishing and reviewing articles. I'm about to have my first piece published in a professional magazine, but it's on my personal experience whereas most publications want researched pieces. I'm reading up on journals that are looking for submissions and they're all asking for "manuscripts." So here are some q's: MANUSCRIPTS: 1. What is the definition of this in this context? (I know what the word means in general, but a basic online search provides many explanations.) 2. Can a researched paper written for a class ever qualify as a manuscript? (In other words, is it possible for something I've written before to be able to be submitted OR is it possible for me to tailor assignments in the future to also be submitted for journals?) 3. Is there any issue with submitting one manuscript to several journals? Is it a problem if more than one wants to publish it? ARTICLE REVIEWING: 1. Any suggestions on where to find people who need a reviewer? Thanks so much for your help... I hope this post will also help others who come seeking the same advice :) 26 | +

Request [Sunday August 31st, 2008 3:45pm] academics_anon [i_strannik] Hi, people - I am looking for a letter, that I think appeared in C&E NEWS circa 2002 - 2004. In it, the author spoke about what he learned in his analytical chemistry class and how it was useful for him during his career. The letter concluded with a comment on the absence of Anal.Chem from the curriculum of pre-med students. Or something along these lines. I can't find it... :( Anyone remember something like this? Thanks! 5 | +

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