tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post404950666157824956..comments2023-06-11T02:19:27.429-07:00Comments on Academic Cog: End of the semester grumpinessSisyphushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880634753539329199noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-68519300254494032012-04-29T10:07:14.058-07:002012-04-29T10:07:14.058-07:00I have mountains of grading but I will drink with ...I have mountains of grading but I will drink with you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-32577106212028693192012-04-26T21:27:11.457-07:002012-04-26T21:27:11.457-07:00No words of wisdom, but your last comment is why I...No words of wisdom, but your last comment is why I went out for a margarita and fish tacos with a friend tonight.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716705206734059708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-85587231545582878592012-04-26T20:39:26.927-07:002012-04-26T20:39:26.927-07:00Hang in there! The end is (for better or for wors...Hang in there! The end is (for better or for worse) in sight! And my sympathies on the dimness of the future; it's really hard to plan ahead when your fate -- and even Floyd -- is resting in others' hands. May good things happen soon. <br /><br />I agree about the likely value (or lack thereof) of the service binge, and the underlying causes of attrition/plagiarism, and the oddity of the citation list. But I'm not really the best person to judge. My own citation listing would be truly bizarre, since it would contain some references to my undergrad thesis (published as a monograph in a prize series decades ago) and a paper I published in a graduate journal (the archive of which was recently added to a major database, so all of a sudden it's getting attention), plus some lawyer's use of my dissertation as a straw man in an argument he's making for the importance of an author he claims I dismiss, but whom I examined at length and with some seriousness (I haven't gone back to check the places he cited, but I think he may be confusing my argument with those of other authors I cite in order to refute. And why in the world he picked my diss as an example, I can't fathom. I think he may have had a fellowship at my grad university and have been trolling the bound dissertations in the stacks, or something. In any case, if he actually had any familiarity with the scholarship on the author, he could have found dozens of more appropriate things than my diss to cite, whatever argument he wanted to make; heck, if I were inclined to be helpful, I could make some suggestions for better examples to support his point). I think lists of citations may play a role in tenure files in some disciplines (mostly non-humanities), and perhaps that custom has spilled over into the humanities at some universities, but I certainly wouldn't make such a list a standard part of a c.v., and wouldn't include it in an application unless it was specifically requested. <br /><br />But what do I know? I've never served on a search committee.Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.com