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A Comps Haiku
Today’s post is brought to you by my husband, who wrote me the following haiku for comps: I will defeat comps Smoking drinking kick ass-ing I have no fear. RAWR
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Comps Strategies: Write fragments, take naps
nap-time with the pup As careful readers of this blog may have already surmised, I rely heavily on structure for writing. I organize my note-taking with a rubric, each entry carefully tagged and...
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Grant Tip #14: Take notes on your awesomeness
Today’s post is brought to you by my frankly tepid Intellectual Merit section in my current NSF application. As it turns out, intellectual merit is pretty much my thing. Interest in how the theoretical...
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Scrivener: a grad student review
Look! I made this from my NSF DDIG application! I just submitted an application to the NSF DDIG*. It’s a big grant and a big deal and getting it in makes me a very happy camper. I had already done a...
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Grant-Writing Diary: an old school productivity app
There are a million apps out there to help keep you motivated and on track. To-do list managers like Wunderlist, Any.do and Trello to visualize what you need to do, and note-takers like Evernote and...
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Online Discussion Pedagogy
So if you’ve ever been in an online course – or even a face-to-face course with an online component – you have probably come across some variation of the Online Discussion Board. Modeled on the...
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Once upon a time the Nacirema …
I love this book … I spend a lot of time daydreaming about creative alternatives for assessing your students. Are you shocked reader? I thought not. Today I am particularly excited about my idea:...
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The Triple Interview: a qualitative life course method
Interview on Liliana’s patio Sometimes your informants lie to you and sometimes they lie to themselves. Sometimes they are wrong about things, sometimes you are missing the context to understand them...
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On Civilization (V) and the Academic Job Search
I have a confession: I love the academic job search. I love it for the same reason I love playing Civilization. I like to play on a higher setting than I can usually win on, and whenever I start a new...
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AAA 2017 CfP – A Bad Age for Citizenship: barriers to belonging in the school...
Call for Papers: A Bad Age for Citizenship: barriers to belonging in the school years American Anthropological Association (AAA) 2017, Washington, D.C., 29 Nov – 3 Dec Chair/Organizer: Samantha Grace...
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