To mark Open Access Week 2014, here are some links to relevant content: In this blog An overview of open access publishing; A list of myths about Open Access, according to Peter Suber, the director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication; Elsewhere on the web: A video explaining the Open Access publishing model, by… Continue reading Open Access Week 2014
Tag: academic writing
Presenting multilingual data: Some options
In the previous post of the Researching Multilingually series, I discussed some considerations that impacted the representation of multilingual data. In this post, I follow up on those considerations, by presenting four options that can be used to present multilingual data in a research report. These options, which can be thought of as a ‘cline of representational positions’,… Continue reading Presenting multilingual data: Some options
Elephants, self-promotion, and academic self-presentation
For today, I had originally planned to post some thoughts on Teaching English to Very Young learners, drawing on a small scale inquiry I ran online over the last 10 days. However, that post has been de-prioritised, and in its place I’d like to engage in some rather shameless self-promotion, which I will then use as a springboard in… Continue reading Elephants, self-promotion, and academic self-presentation
Where can I find calls for papers for TESOL?
So, you have written or are planning to write a paper on language education, TESOL or applied linguistics – but do you know where to publish it? The easiest way forward usually is to submit your work to one of the many journals in the field. Another option is to consider an edited volume or… Continue reading Where can I find calls for papers for TESOL?
Thinking about how to present multilingual data
So far in this series of posts on doing multilingual research, I have probed the intricacies of multilingual research settings, presented some dilemmas about obtaining informed consent, and talked about language choice and data generation. This post moves the discussion forward to the most visible outcome of a multilingual research project: How might one present multilingual data on a… Continue reading Thinking about how to present multilingual data
Do I need permission to evaluate language teaching textbooks?
When is copying content from a language textbook fair use, in a student research project?
Possible scam involving academic publishing?
You will never get a fee for publishing in an academic journal. According to a recent post in Scholarly Open Access (a now [2019] defunct blog, which used to report on academic publishing scams), there is at least one academic publisher so keen to recruit authors and editors that they offer rewards of “1,000-10,000 dollars as… Continue reading Possible scam involving academic publishing?
Thoughts on academic blogging
This post has been prompted by a small personal landmark. Earlier today, this blog passed the 30,000 views mark, after about 30 months of operation. Of course, the views are not evenly distributed: for more than a year after it was created, this webspace operated mostly as an online CV/academic homepage, and the blog section… Continue reading Thoughts on academic blogging
Fake papers are not the real problem in science
In case you missed it, the ‘big story’ in academic news in the past week was the retraction of more than 120 papers that had been published by Springer and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). The retraction followed the discovery, by Dr. Cyril Labbé of Joseph Fourier University, that all the fake… Continue reading Fake papers are not the real problem in science