The academic writer’s strike
Originally posted on The Thesis Whisperer:I have spent years exhorting students to publish as much as possible before they finish and straight after. But lately I am beginning to wonder about my place...
View ArticlePlagiarized reports from Iranian researchers printed by Canadian publisher
Originally posted on National Post | News:When a Ryerson University electrical engineering professor announced last month that one of his papers had been plagiarized in its entirety by academics at...
View ArticleC is for Contrastive analysis
Originally posted on An A-Z of ELT:An article in the latest Applied Linguistics (Scheffler 2012) makes a robust defence of some discredited classroom practices, including the use of translation. While...
View ArticleSavvy Science Publisher Not So Savvy
Originally posted on Scholarly Open Access:Should be called “Amateurish Science Publisher” The word savvy in English, according to Wictionary, means “shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.” The term is...
View ArticleA factual account of bilingualism and multilingualism in our personal and...
Originally posted on Eugenia Loras:This post is a summary of my talk on ‘A factual account of bilingualism and multilingualism in our personal and professional lives’ during our 1st International Loras...
View Article“Impact factor is a scam”, argues Curt Rice
Curt Rice, the head of the Board for Current Research Information System in Norway (CRIStin), recently published an interesting article on his blog, discussing the uses and abuses of the impact factor....
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