You need to behave like an adult even when you don’t feel like one. Joan Bolker Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day. p. 24
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A good research question is a key to a good paper and a smooth process. Our first aim is: Everybody should have one! Our second aim is: Everybody should have a good one that will help make the task more manageable. Lotte Rienecker, qt. in Judith Wolfsberger “Frei geschrieben” Sound advice.
“Sharing just a list of books, he feared, “feels like a shortcut—like throwing out Sterling from the NBA.””
Salon shares the syllabi of two MIT classes held by Junot Diaz, and asked him about diversity in his classes, after he criticized MFA programs for being too white. For him, it is more about the approach of teaching then about taught texts, but the list isn’t too bad either.
My intention is to make a contribution to the sociology of intellectual production, […] as well as to analysis of fetishism and magic. There too, you might say, “But why not go and study magic in "primitive” societies, rather than in the Paris fashion scene?“ I think that one of the functions of ethnological discourse …
//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/aV0S_PRVTg0 Archie Powell & The Exports “Only So Much You Can Do” I discovered this song on the NPR Music SXSW 100, and it’s my new thesis writing anthem. So you say you’re on to something and you’d like to see it through but you’re worked to the bone and there’s only so much you …
Potrait of my (academic) life
Intellectual life, like all other social spaces, is a home to nationalism and imperialism, and intellectuals, like everyone else, constantly peddle prejudices, stereotypes, received ideas, and hastily simplistic representations which are fueled by the chance happenings of everyday life, like misunderstandings, general incomprehension, and wounded pride. Pierre Bourdieu. “The Social Conditions of the International Circulation …
That awkward moment when you read a paragraph of an essay, have a thought that you think is an original flash of genius elevating your thesis, only to discover said thought/conclusion in the essay 2 paragraphs down.
WHEN YOUR CHAIR SENDS YOU AN EMAIL ASKING HOW THE WRITING IS GOING:
wheninacademia:
think-progress: FACT: The number of students who have to go into debt to get a bachelor’s degree has risen from 45% in 1993 to 94% today. The numbers are even worse than I thought.
CLARITY AND CHAOS 