“I have other professional obligations,” or, on “arrogance”

We were all accused, and accused ourselves so much of arrogance but really it was only that we had other professional obligations. Those of us who said we had not been trained to work at colleges or community colleges and other non research entities were not “being arrogant” but merely stating facts. I have no … More “I have other professional obligations,” or, on “arrogance”

Illumination post

This is for my writing group, research as a second language, and SMT, and anyone else, of course. The topic is doing work in short sessions, every day. Today in a departmental meeting on the lower division curriculum it was repeated that foreign language study is unlike the study of other subjects, like English or … More Illumination post

On promise

The other thing we were saying at that conference I went to a few weeks ago was that we had met some really mean and also supercilious people in academia and that that was why we had tried to get away from it. Colleague: Where do you expect to publish this book? Professor Zero: Routledge. … More On promise

27 minutes today

I wrote for 27 minutes which yielded me 152 rough words needing much more research and organization. This is causing me to go to the library to look for one specific book. Over the next two days I plan to add at least 98 words to these words, and to improve the quality of all 250 … More 27 minutes today