Academia: Support for Professional Academics

Dear all -

I've managed to turn off the autocorrecting feature to the fullest possible extent via the Spelling and Grammar tab under Tools->Options, but the damn thing is still insisting on inserting all kinds of capital letters after periods. I'm currently transcribing manuscript catalogue data which is chock full of things like "nomina. trinus. trinitas. et talia. non ponunt aliquid. sed tantum privant." and so on. It's vexing in the extreme to look back at my document and see it full of capital letters after periods that only mark abbreviations or ellipses.

Has anyone here sorted out how to make it stop? I'm all out of ticky boxes to untick and it's STILL DOING IT.

hey folks, sorry for cross-posts but this is a great thing for those languishing over the summer. Feel free to forward/re-post.

We are happy to announce the 2008 Summer Academic Working Group. This peer accountability and feedback system allows users from anywhere in the world to share documents and feedback. Working group participants participate in "clusters" around a common discipline, theme, or type of work. Clusters exchange work on a regular basis - normally every two weeks - by posting it to a secure course and project management site at the University of Michigan. Participants then provide and receive feedback for members of their cluster. Having a deadline helps everyone get more done, and having feedback makes what's done better.

For more information, or for sign-up instructions, go to http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lpowner/workgroup.htm

Any questions can be emailed via the webpage.

Last year some 20 people participated. It's a really nice opportunity to get feedback from people you don't already hear from regularly or who might bring very different perspectives to your work.

(Crossposted to a bunch of academic communities; please feel free to post to other discipline-specific or personal groups, blogs, or lists via LJ or email.)

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Hi everyone,

I'm an assistant professor of business administration at the College of St. Rose in Albany, NY.  We've just opened the search for a new tenure-track position and I thought this might be a useful outlet for the announcement.  If you or someone you know might be interested, please feel free to pass this along.

I didn't have the heart to either disparage, or dismiss out of hand, the ethos behind this one:

http://www.globaltext.org

(and I'm hoping it's not)

but . . . I'm an academic, and you're (possibly more knowledgeable) academics, so it seemed worth a try.

I'm finishing up my MA right now and looking for PhD programs that are good places to study fandom. Any department that is good for the subject will do--I'm figuring Cultural Studies or Media Studies programs are probably my best bet, but I'm open to anywhere where I'll be happy. Anybody in a program they want to advocate? Anybody in one they think I should avoid at all costs?

Thanks!

...it's all about buying stuff apparently: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/so-college-students-make-the-most-of-your-educational-experience.html

*Slightly alarmed by the fact that books don't even warrant a mention.*

And a Buzzle bonus: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/stress-management-for-mature-students.html (Twenty five ways to cope!)

[Cross-posted to good ol' academics_anon.]

This community is for faculty, staff, researchers, administrators and graduate students in higher education to discuss issues related to life in academia. Most of the posts in this community are locked, or friends-only, so you have to join the community to read them. As professional academics, we are public figures to our students, colleagues and peers. However, navigating the academy and its associated domains can be challenging. This community is intended to be a safer haven for professional academics to speak more freely with a group of supportive peers.

I created this community because I wanted to build a network of academic professionals from whom I could seek advice and with whom I could share experiences. As of mid-2007, there was no other LJ community that catered to professional academics. I found this community, moderated by the lovely neeuqdrazil, who was kind enough to let me reinvent it as a forum for professional academics.

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