Anxious doctoral researchers can now call on a proliferation of advice books telling them how to produce their dissertations. This article analyzes some characteristics of this self-help genre, including the ways it produces an expert-novice relationship with readers, reduces dissertation writing to a series of linear steps, reveals hidden rules, and asserts a mix of … More On the failure of dissertation advice books
Today, for 1.5 hours of office hours, I tutored and coached students while the 2 year old of one student screamed and was passed around among us. One of the students was particularly good with him. In an unrelated insight I have decided that all the advice on time management is constructed and given to … More La jornada
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I am teaching two sections of Spanish 3. Students have no aural comprehension of Spanish, no speaking ability, no sense of syntax, and very little ability to read the readings in the textbook, which is a common textbook they are using for the third semester in a row. Some of them say that in their … More Un misterio
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I will post for my class, and then I will go home. At home, I will write my letter of recommendation and read Mignolo. I will return to campus early to deliver the letter, and I will clear up matters around the office, particularly with regard to grading papers. I will create a format for … More E agora, José / Dulzura por dulzura
Resistance is no longer an option, it is a necessity. That is the last line of a very good essay you should read slowly. #OccupyHE. Axé.
I took this with my phone in Oaxaca de Juárez on 26 October 2013. It is part of a wedding parade, outside the amazing Templo de Santo Domingo. I am interested in the clown costumes, which resemble those used in Cajun Mardi Gras; the clowns act in a similar way. Apparently these clowns also appear … More Diasporic medieval Afro-European peasant culture
I believe I can afford a Mexican Fullbright. I think I can live on what they offer for “maintenance,” and pay bills at home with what they offer as a “stipend.” This would be amazing. #OccupyHE. Axé.
Science is finished, said the scientist I talked to today. The word implies critique, but it is now taken to mean production and profit. Science not oriented in those directions will not be done again. This makes teaching very painful, he said. Students go into biology because they know they can make things to sell. … More Science news today
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