A while ago, the German philosopher Theodor Adorno was being interviewed by Der Spiegel, a German news magazine, about the 1968 student protests. The journalist started the interview by saying that “two weeks ago, the world seemed still in order…”, to which Adorno replied: “not to me” This quote often comes to mind when discussing the COVID pandemic. No matter […]
Read moreOver the last couple of decades, I make this promise to myself: that this is the last winter holiday I spend working. Maybe, one day, I’ll manage to keep it. But for the time being, here I am, working on a book chapter for an edited collection, and I was wondering if anyone would like to share some feedback. So […]
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Open Access Week is an annual event that aims to raise awareness of Open Access as a new form of disseminating research output. This year, it takes place from 20th to 26th October. To mark the occasion, I have cross-posted some information about Open Access from my blog, which I hope may be of use to members of the community. […]
Read morePerhaps the following posts are of some use, with the conference season coming up and all… How to present a conference paper Engaging with feedback Feedback and comments are, of course, very welcome.
Read moreIt seems that Juup and I will be presenting papers in this year’s BAAL Language Learning and Teaching SIG conference. Here’s a copy of my abstract…
Read moreAt least that’s the best explanation I can think of to account for why a piece that I authored now appears in Social Science Space, a content aggregator run by SAGE. I am sure you would take my word for it, but here’s a link anyway: Fake papers are not the real problem in science . Rather unfortunately, the theme they […]
Read moreThe LSE Public Policy group have produced a handbook that focuses on understanding and maximising impact, and have made it free for download in .pdf format. Some topics include: What shapes the citing of academic publications? Tracking citations, including new-internet based tracking systems Key measures of academic influence Strategies for getting better cited External (i.e., non-academic) research impacts You can […]
Read moreThe Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes is a new open access journal published by the University of Niš. The journal publishes double-blind peer-reviewed articles reporting on original research in the fields of General and Applied Linguistics, ESP and EAP. The Table of Contents for the latest issue (Vol.1, No.1) can be found here, and authors interested in submitting are encouraged to read their editorial […]
Read moreAs some of you might be aware, November is Academic Writing Month, so I thought that it might be useful to share some articles I’ve stumbled upon over time on the topic of scholarly writing. The basics Starting with the most mundane of topics, here’s some advice on improving typing skills. While on the topic of typing, the University of […]
Read moreThis blog post has been prompted by Open Access 2013, which began on Monday (21st October) and will run until 27th October. What I aim to do in the paragraphs that follow is describe what Open Access publication is, discuss some salient advantages and concerns, and provide readers with resources which I have found useful. It is by no means an […]
Read more“How many points would Louis Pasteur, Henri Poincaré, Claude Shannon, Tim Berners-Lee and others nowadays earn within the new academic evaluation system?” The latest issue of Computer Assisted Language Learning carries a thought-provoking editorial on the “publish or perish” syndrome. Jozef Colpaert, the editor, argues that the evaluation practices currently in place in the academe are ultimately self-defeating, resulting in what he […]
Read moreOn May 23rd, I had the privilege of attending the Researching Multilingually seminar that was organised by The University of Manchester, where I presented a brief talk about the various alternatives available for representing bilingual data in research output. In a nutshell, my argument was that there are many different considerations (intentionalities) that need to be taken into account when […]
Read moreI’ve put together an annotated list of references on survey research, which I thought might be useful to some of the readers here as well. Comments are welcome; additional sources even more so. 🙂
Read moreCambridge Scholars Press are publishing a new book series, edited by Prof. Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki), titled Post-Intercultural Communication and Education. According to their announcement: This book series, eclectic in scope, seeks to extend and revitalize scholarship on intercultural communication and education by publishing innovative, interdisciplinary and critical analyses of intercultural encounters. “Post-intercultural” refers to a recent paradigm shift in the […]
Read moreYoung reviewers are certainly sought after. “The best referees are postdocs,” says Leslie Sage, a senior physical-sciences editor at Nature in Washington DC. “They are at the top of their game, well versed in the literature and politically naive enough to tell the truth.” For this and more interesting insights into the peer-review process, you may want to have a look into […]
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