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Academic publishing runs on its own schedule, Part 2

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Outrage, Whining on July 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

As if sitting on our article for years (literally – nearly 3 years, see my first post on this topic) and then complaining that the lit review was out of date (well, DUH), the editors of the journal had the AUDACITY to send us an email less than 2 weeks after they sent us the [...]

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Demystifying Dissertation Writing Part 1: Chapters 1-5

Posted in Being a scholar, Dissertation, Graduate school, Organization, Reading, Tools, Writing on July 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »

In order to move myself forward on this process I have been reading Demystifying Dissertation Writing:A Streamlined Process from Choice of Topic to Final Text by Peg Boyle Single.  This is a different type of book from many of the other dissertation-writing guides out there, in that it’s goal is to present an organized process [...]

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Academic publishing runs on its own schedule

Posted in Being a scholar, Education policy, Rants, Research, Whining, Writing on July 4, 2010 | Comments Off

3 years ago my chair and I presented a paper at the premier conference in our field.  We took the comments, modified the paper and submitted it to a journal. <crickets chirping> A year later we heard that the journal had gone through a couple of “changes” and wanted to know if we wanted our [...]

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How I use OneNote for my Dissertation

Posted in Being a scholar, Dissertation, Organization, Productivity, Writing on June 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The question came up recently about how I am using OneNote for my dissertation note taking.  Sometimes show is easier than tell. I have one OneNote notebook called Dissertation.  Within it, I have 8 sections: A few things about this: The first 5 sections reflect the 5 chapters required in my dissertation: Introduction, Literature Review, [...]

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The dissertation topic….

Posted in Being a scholar, Dissertation, Research on June 16, 2010 | Comments Off

In December 2008 I wrote a post related to choosing a dissertation topic.  More specifically, I was looking at weighing the choice between choosing a topic about which you are passionate, or choosing one that is marketable.   A few months went by and I went down the marketable path.  Then I essentially took a [...]

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A step in the right direction

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Blogging, Change, Dissertation, Jobs on January 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »

I have a new day job!!!! In higher ed!!!! Let me tell the story…. Anyone who has spent time in the regular job market and looked for a job has heard the old saw that more than half of the jobs are filled through the “unofficial” job market; someone knows someone else, who puts them [...]

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I will not become a statistic….

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Dissertation, Graduate school, Organization, Productivity, tagged , , , on December 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

They used to say that only 50% of those who start a doctorate finish.  Updated statistics in the social sciences says that number (10-year completion) is more like 56%, but that still leaves 44% unfinished and (in most programs like mine that have a time limit) unfinishable.  It isn’t the course work;  16% opt out [...]

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Offering Extra Credit

Posted in Being a scholar, Teaching on October 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »

One thing a new teacher often faces is the question of extra credit.  This semester it has been requested by several students in both classes.  I assume their rationale is as follows: even if I don’t ace it I’ll get a few points extra credit assignments are always easy stuff, like go to this lecture [...]

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White-collar trade school?

Posted in Being a scholar, Change, Education policy, Technology on August 27, 2009 | Comments Off

A recent article in Fast Company got me thinking about how higher education works.  The article, “How Web-Savvy Edupunks are Transforming American Higher Education”  looks at the various initiatives to move education away from the traditional campus and credits model to something more open and in keeping with the web. At first, this is a [...]

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Why are you going to grad school anyway?

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Change, Graduate school, Jobs on August 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Over the past few years I have focused much of this blog on efficiently getting through graduate school.  Yet as I have started teaching and working on my dissertation, I have begun to question what I want out of graduate school. There are a ton of reasons people start a PhD program: They want to [...]

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