It is not quite over yet – at least for some of you. I am still planning to write that post on that neurobiology article, but since some of you are already working on reworking your essays, I thought it best to give the details now. So here it goes: If you wish to receive […]
Posts Tagged ‘writing’
The art of writing proposals
It sometimes feels like most of what is written in academia are proposals for funding – most of which propose research which never actually gets funded. Kind of weird, isn’t it? Empirically, proposals may not actually be the largest amount of text, but they clearly are important. More often than not, proposals decide if something […]
The perks and perils of peer review
I would argue peer review is the central mechanism of subjectivation in academia – in and through participation in peer review one is created as an academic. The idea is quite simple really: by having one or two experts in the field review a text, an editor of a journal or a book evaluates the […]
Recap Bayart/Appadurai and second writing assignment
Thank you all for a very intense double session last Friday! For those who could not be there, here is a recap of what we discussed in photographs: And for the Appadurai, I tried to collect your explanations of the most important ideas in a very sophisticated graphical display. Judge for yourself: At the very […]
Peers reviewing text
Peer review is at the heart of science, even social science, these days. It is also highly contested. However, the basic sentiment is noble and ingenious. By letting other knowledgeable people read and critique a text, the author gets a genuine chance at making it better. And any text can get better. Beyond that, by […]
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