• Posts Tagged ‘writing’

    Last-Minute Gift Ideas for Academics (or what to get with your holiday Amazon giftcards)

    by  • December 23, 2012 • Advice • 0 Comments

    My department has recently introduced these two books to the grad students through reading groups and classes. Both give great professionalization advice for various stages in the studying, working, and writing processes. Semenza, Gregory Colón. Graduate Study for the 21st Century: How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,...

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    Scholarly Collaboration in the Humanities

    by  • July 6, 2012 • Advice • 1 Comment

    Technology Makes It Simple I think this post dovetails quite nicely off the previous one and its discussion of the Digital Humanities. We are all pursuing graduate study during a time of great transition and change. Technological advances have allowed scholars to broaden their scope. The term “distant reading” is gaining more and more...

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    End of the Semester Writing Woes

    by  • April 20, 2012 • Advice • 0 Comments

    As the end of the semester approaches (ASU’s last day of class is April 24th!) so too does an intense dose of anxiety and stress. As graduate students we have a LOT on our plates. Not only does the end of the semester signal grading a lot of composition papers and assigning final grades,...

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    Exploring the Genre of the Dissertation

    by  • April 9, 2012 • Advice • 0 Comments

    During the hours that I assigned for my dissertation yesterday, I had a bit of a genre-identity crisis. I was editing and revising parts of a chapter in the morning when I discovered that I have been following no more than an idea *in my imagination* of what a dissertation should look like. Of...

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    And the Beat Goes On: STS 2011

    by  • March 23, 2011 • Conference Digests • 1 Comment

    I returned last Friday night 3/18, well technically 1am Saturday morning, from the Society for Textual Scholarship 2011 International Conference, hosted by Penn State University. The conference was a very positive learning experience for me in terms of my scholarly disciplines (Romanticism and digital humanities), writing process, professional community, and social media use. It...

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    The Critic as Genius?

    by  • February 14, 2011 • Pedagogy, Research • 1 Comment

    In a recent edition of English Studies in Canada, Margery Fee writes that “we often talk about the importance of good writing without explaining what it is or how we know what it is… our knowledge of what makes good writing is tacit.” I’ve found this rings true for me on both sides of...

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    Call for New Bloggers!

    by  • January 12, 2011 • NGSC Announcements, Opportunities • 0 Comments

    We are looking for new regular contributors for the NGSC WordPress blog on www.nassrgrads.com. If you are interested, please send your CV and a brief letter of interest (no longer than 1 page) to nassgrad@colorado.edu by January 22. Bloggers are responsible for publishing at least 1-2 posts per month. New bloggers will start February...

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