Blogging is a lot like teaching. You start with one project, and then you add another and another, until you're juggling one more topic than you can track, and you hope that whoever is watching is enjoying the show, or at least paying attention. Along...
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Perhaps I should better call this, how not to write productively. I'm about to air my own dirty laundry, in the service of learning, blogging, and honesty. I'll be sending.
If you're an adjunct, scrambling to make ends meet, how do you find time to write? Well, if you look Jill Carroll's advice on time management for adjuncts in The Chronicle from.
I received a brief and surprising email today. The first surprise was that the email arrived at all. You see, I'd emailed Elizabeth Strout, whose complex and often lovely novel in stories Olive Kitteridge. (If you haven't read Olive Kitteridge, I highly suggest it. There's...
Scholars on the tenure-track have contextual support to write and publish. In the best positions, this takes the form of course release time and internal grants to fund sabbaticals, research.
As I noted last week, many schools don't have a strong sense that adjuncts write. (Okay, that's putting it mildly…) As a result, they don't provide much funding for conference.
When I started talking to people about the entire adjuncts/writing question, the first answers I got were sort of depressing: comments about writing got lumped in with general complaints about the overall state of affairs for adjuncts, which means comments on writing got lumped in...
One of the things that struck me when I started working on this blog was how little research had been done into the great sea change of academic labor that.
This week we've got a rare perspective on the question of adjuncts and writing: a brief interview with a university president who is also a former adjunct. Alan Walker is.
Review of Guiding Students from Cheating and Plagiarism to Honesty and Integrity: Strategies for Change by Ann Lathrop and Kathleen Foss, 2005 Reviewed by Greg Beatty Guiding Students from Cheating and Plagiarism to Honesty and Integrity is a useful and fascinating book. Guiding Students...
