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Alarmed by persisting attempts to ban a translation of comments to Bhagavad Gita, a group of Russian scholars asked the top leadership to intervene.
In an open letter to President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the scholars asked the Kremlin duo to take the controversy under their "personal control". The letter, signed by 20 leading philosophers, orientalists and philologists, was released in the run-up to the resumption of a trial in Tomsk against the translation of the book "Bhagavad Gita As It Is".
The court in December rejected a prosecutor's petition to ban the book "Bhagavad Gita As It Is" as "extremist" on the grounds that it incited "social hatred" and "violence against non-believers." However, the Tomsk prosecutor appealed against the verdict and filed a modified petition exempting the canonical text from the charges of extremism and asking the court to ban the comments only.
The court was to hear the appeal on March 6, but then postponed the trial to March 20.
The Russian scholars denounced the prosecutor's efforts to label extremist the comments to Bhagavad Gita as "untrue and contrary to the traditions of Hinduism".
"The book does not contain any signs of extremism and does not incite hatred on ethnic, religious or any other grounds. On the contrary, the book written in the commentary tradition of Bengali Vaishnavism, one of the most popular branches of Hinduism, is considered sacred by a section of believers."
The scholars warned that the trial "discredits Russia's cultural and democratic credentials in the eyes of the civilised world and is driving a wedge in Russian-Indian relations."
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I write to you today to express my interest in your trip. While I don't have a "resume," I have outlined my experience below. I do possess both a 50 ton Inland Master's license, with Sailing and Towing Endorsements, and an Ordinary Seaman (OS) MMD. I have a TWIC card as well.
My father first took me sailing on the Chesapeake Bay, out of Middle River, when I was 6 months old; I have been sailing ever since. When I was 8, I began racing on both small boats (dinghies), and Keel Boats. My keel boat racing experience includes a Cal 2-30, C&C 33, Express 35, J/22, J/24, J/29, J/30, J/35, J/42, Melges 24, Merit 25, Navy 44, and a Santa Cruz 70. My dinghy experience includes Lasers, 420s, 470s, JY15s, Thistles, and Optimists. I have done many distance races, including the Round Block Island Race and Vineyard race, both in 2008.
I have been cruising my entire life. My cruising experience includes a Pearson Ariel (similar to a Pearson Triton, only smaller), a Morgan 30, Jeanneau 35, Cal 2-27, Beneteau 35.7, and currently a Bayfield 32. I have sailed offshore many times, including a trip in November 2008 from Annapolis, Maryland to St. Maarten, in the Caribbean. In June 2010, I sailed from Tortola to Providence, RI, via Bermuda, aboard a Caliber 37. I also skippered a Pearson 36 Cutter from Annapolis to Bermuda in November 2011.
I began coaching sailing and racing when I was 13- in 2001. I have been teaching junior sailors every summer since then, teaching everything from 8 year old beginners (kids who have never set foot on a boat) to 16 year olds in advanced racing. I have taught at the Baltimore County Sailing Center for 7 summers (
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Lopez, 24, was supposed to play in the match as part of the team from the Malacca-Portuguese Eurasian Association but injured himself a few days earlier while playing in another match.
"I tore my right leg's anterior
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Lopez, a former Malacca midfielder who played in the Super League from 2006 to 2009, said he was here to support his friends and to make new friends.
"The Eurasian community is small and this event keeps our community united," he said when met at the two-day event which began yesterday at the College General grounds in Tanjung Bungah.
The games, participated by about 300 people from seven Eurasian associations, are organised for the first time by the Penang Eurasian Association.
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The other participating associations are the Selangor and Federal Territory Eurasian Association, Portuguese-Eurasian Association of Perak, Sarawak Eurasian Association, Kedah Eurasian Association and Eurasian Association of Singapore.
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Star Trek is gone, might move to the local mall. MGM Grand is gone, planned for housing development? MGM's Wizard of Oz walk-through is gone (I was too scared to go in there as a kid). Although they do have a lion exhibit inside. New York I guess is the same. There's a Coca-cola and M&Ms museum (but they were built in the 90s, I'm sure) along with Gameworks. Treasure Island's fun has been dimenished to a more adult musical (does anyone wait for that show as much as the original??). Belligo water fountain. I think Mirage has the volcano upfront. Strasphere has moved on to I suppose more extreme attractions (no high roller coaster, but they have the other 2 new offerings). LUXOR got rid of their slow boat ride (apparently becoming more generic as a casino and less theme oriented). Circus-circus is still around (but also built years ago). Excaliber I don't know if they still have that wizard/dragon in the moat and not sure if the puppet show is still there. There are malls, pools, smaller family venues. Shows like David Copperfield. Tours like I think a ghost town and Grand Canyon. There's the HOOTERS resort (not sure if it's open, and that chain is considered "family-friendly"). I know I'm missing more, but that's not what I'm asking about.
Last time my family went to Vegas, we spent money on shows and attractions than my parents gambling.
My professor also went to the committee meeting in Vegas and apparently they've been focusing more on family marketing.
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could escalate, leading to a breakdown of cooperation in the oil and gas
Oil futures settled lower Tuesday as a stronger US dollar and slowdown in
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down 22.4% compared with the same time last year, according to data gathered
from port sources.
Spain's Industry Ministry has drawn up a ministerial order that will
oblige electricity generators to purchase 6 million mt of domestically mined
coal for 2015, the ministry said in a note Wednesday.
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Tropical Storm Edouard is looking decidedly more organized in this true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from Tuesday, September 3, 2002, than it did the previous day. Located off the Atlantic Coast of the southeast United States, the storm briefly intensified between September 2 and 3, but by the time this image was acquired by the Terra satellite on Tuesday afternoon, the intensification had halted. Edouard is expected to weaken to tropical depression status as it moves quickly toward land. As of Tuesday evening, forecasters were predicting the storm would come ashore in northern Florida within 24 hours. Credit: Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
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Age 8+ A treasure-trove of delights are gathered together in this wonderful anthology of some of Allan Ahlberg's best-loved poems. Taken from the best selling collections, Please Mrs Butler, Heard it in the Playground, The Mighty Slide, Friendly Matches and The Mysteries of Zigomar, it will delight old and new fans alike on account of Ahlberg's acute and kindly observations of the ups and downs of playground life.
SynopsisCollected Poems by Allan Ahlberg
Allan Ahlberg's five poetry books, written over a period of twenty-five years - "Please Mrs Butler", "Heard it in the Playground", "Friendly Matches", "The Mighty Slide" and "The Mysteries of Zigomar" - have delighted generations of children and received many accolades and prizes. Allan has sifted through them and chosen a collection to delight and entrance a new generation of readers and their parents. Here are all the trials and tribulations of childhood, embracing school, quarrels, friendships, football and storytelling from a much-loved author and poet. Charlotte Voake's black-and-white illustrations enchance the charm of this handsome and definitive collection.
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Generally speaking, rugby league types are most effective in union the further they are away from the pack. Eastmond may be different: Bath have already shown trust in him at outside-half and they gave him a run at outside centre earlier this month. Even if he ends up as a full-time wing, he is certain to interest the national selectors sooner rather than later and is a decent bet for a summer tour place when England, shorn of their Lions, travel to Argentina. What he might achieve there is anyone's guess. Jason who?


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Hall: Judges' car allowances are highway robbery
Superior Court judges are in the hot seat for a monthy auto allowance of about $575. Would you give it up if you had one?
No 59% (205)
Yes 41% (140)
345 total votes.
San Diego County Superior Court judges must have heard the line "Judge not, that ye be not judged" a million times, mostly in mirth.
Make that a million and one, and mark this: I'm not kidding.
That these judges get an exorbitant auto allowance from the state is outrageous in a good economy. It's inexcusable in bad times.
Especially in times so bad that San Diego County judges and executives are choosing to close courtrooms, slash hours, furlough or lay off employees and consolidate business operations. Despite all that, the court spends nearly $1 million a year in auto allowances for 126 judges and nine administrators, many of whom spend days on end in a single room weighing right and wrong.
Dave Maass wrote about the perk in this week's San Diego CityBeat, a story we picked up in the U-T. I was outraged by the sixth paragraph, but still managed to read the remaining 23. My outrage only grew as I read that auto allowances aren't offered in Superior Courts in Los Angeles, Orange, Alameda, Fresno, Riverside, Sacramento, San Francisco, Santa Clara and Ventura counties.
In San Diego County, most judges get a monthly auto allowance of $572. A presiding judge, an assistant presiding judge and supervising judges get even more — $674 a month.
That's $6,864 to $8,088 a year, a payment that is not, incidentally, mandated by the state. The perk dates to 1988 when judicial pay was tied to the county board of supervisors, before the state started funding courts. The benefit hasn't changed in the 14 years since and Court Executive Officer Michael Roddy said judges consider it a core part of their compensation package.
"That's what it seems to be titled," he said. "But it's gone way beyond that. ... We don't view it as an auto allowance."
They also didn't consider reducing or eliminating it to help bridge their court's budget shortfall.
"We're not at this point into cutting judges' pay, and that may not sell down on Main Street, but that's really our perspective," Roddy said.
For us to see as much money, we would need to drive more than 1,000 miles a month for work and be part of a company that pays the full federal reimbursement rate of 55.5 cents per mile. By law, that reimbursement excludes commutes between home and the office.
One thousand miles a month? Pizza delivery drivers may do that, but judges? The expression isn't, "There goes the judge." Even big-city media columnists aren't on the road that often.
Speaking of which, here are two things you should know about me. (As I said at the outset: Judge not, that ye be not judged.)
One, I've driven 871 miles for work since May, when I became a columnist. That's about 175 miles a month — or roughly $97 a month that I will bill my company. That's nowhere near $572.
And two, no one abhors an unjustified auto allowance more than me. I won awards in 2008 and, even more rewarding professionally, have saved taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars since then because of some stories I wrote about auto allowances.


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2HBH: should the racket stay on the "outside" too?
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The up part of the forward swing for A DOUBLE HANDED BACKHAND can be constrained by two factors:
1.capability to obtain two SSC's:
one at a lowest point,the second at a contact
I understand that it looks like there is a loading phase occurring at the lowest point as the racket dips down and lags, but I don't see a SSC at contact. Could you explain what you mean by that.
2.capability to achieve a PRESCRIBED lowest point plus a required slope
Please see AGAIN
The LOWEST POINT was SOMEWHERE above the level of knees.
The angle of the slope looks like around 45 degrees.
Now we have multiple questions of a day:
how do we produce a motion of an arm to achieve #1 and/or #2 above ?
Are we constrained by enviroroment/bounce/etc?
What are OBSERVABLE to see whether SSC was achieved?
How #2 influences # of shanks?
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I understand that the "FLIP" in THIS THREAD is equivalent of what I call the "UP pART of the forward swing"
I think the downward dipping of the racket head (is this what Macci means by flip?) is muscular because by intuition it appears to be happening too quickly to be simply due to gravity.
I think it is a teachable motion that we should look for in our students, especially if they have a mostly across motion which drives the ball very flat (more like an old-school Connor's 2hbh). I haven't developed any drills, but if it is a muscular motion we should develop step-by-step drills to make the students feel the dip.
I don't know enough which muscles are being loaded by the dipping motion, but it definitely creates a need to raise the head at contact which provides heavier topspin.
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Heavy rains lashed many parts of Gujarat on Thursday even as the showers eluded North India leading to rise in humidity in the region.
The capital Delhi recorded a maximum temperature of 33.8 degrees celsius and a minimum of 26.5 degrees celsius.
Heavy rains lashed Gujarat disrupting rail and vehicular traffic at several places.
Eight trains, majority of them running between Delhi and Mumbai, were stuck at various locations in Gujarat as the tracks at Jekot railway station near Dahod district were submerged in water after the incessant rains, railway officials said.
The heavy downpour since morning led to disruption of vehicular traffic in many districts. Houses in villages were inundated and people had to be shifted to safer places.
Due to overflow from a local dam, 50 houses in two villages-Nimivarod and Tandi-of Zhalod taluka in Dahod were inundated and people had to be evacuated to safer places, they said.
Six people were struck by lightning in Panchmahal district. They were taken to Dahod for treatment, state officials said.
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According to regional Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), in last three days rainfall has been pretty good in Gujarat.
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BOSTON ( TheStreet) -- U.S. stock mutual funds are forecast to set a new record for investor withdrawals in August as Americans recoil from the biggest equity-market slump in three years and the first-ever downgrade of Treasuries.
The prediction, from analyst Kevin McDevitt at mutual-fund tracker Morningstar, comes after July's $22.9 billion in outflows, the most since the peak of the credit crisis in October 2008, when investors pulled $28 billion from U.S. stock funds. "With August off to a very rocky start, this trend is sure to continue with deeper outflows to come."
Investors have withdrawn a net $200 billion from U.S. stock mutual funds over the past five years. Total fund industry assets peaked at $4 trillion in late 2007, but the subsequent stock-market crash a year later, the prolonged recession and last year's so-called flash crash have contributed to skittish investor behavior that has resulted in outflows of about $500 billion since the peak, according to Morningstar.
That's roughly equivalent to the assets of the seven largest U.S. mutual funds, a list that includes Pimco Total Return (PTTRX), SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) and Fidelity Contrafund (FCNTX).Outflows in June and July came despite the fact that most diversified U.S. stock funds declined an average of only 6% in the three months through July, so it wasn't the market performance that drove them away. "It's taken less and less to spook investors over the years," McDevitt said, and the prospect of the threat of the U.S. defaulting on its debts which began to gain credence at the end of July because Congress couldn't agree on a debt ceiling was enough for many of them to throw in the towel. "Investors' tolerance for uncertainty and risk has really changed," he said, and most of the money that has been coming out of U.S. stock funds won't be coming back, he said.


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A while back, I set about asking for input from faculty who serve on search committees to weigh in on their experiences and what they're looking for when reviewing files from applicants. Between some random social media outreach and targeted invitations, I ended up with several responses, which both confirm and challenge some of my assumptions and experiences. In this post, I'm reproducing a handful of answers to my first question — what do you look for in a job letter? — and a few reflections on job letters these days.
So, from a friend at a large, public research university who has served on a few search committees over the past decade:
When reading a job letter I look for the usual things, like descriptions of the candidate's dissertation, next project, publications, and teaching, but also something more: a quality of self-knowledge and even vision. Does the candidate have a vision for the field — what it is and should be — and clarity about how their own research and writing move it in that way? In part, this requires clarity in explaining the dissertation itself. I like to see one or two sentences that express the central finding or argument of a dissertation, as opposed to merely describing the subject matter, topic, questions, methods, approach, and so on. I also look for a concise discussion of what the work means — its larger implications. Can the candidate describe their dissertation's core argument in a way that reflects a compelling understanding of how it fits with (or is set against) a larger configuration or trend of scholarship? Does it exemplify certain intellectual or ethical values we should all be considering?
Another thing that should go into a job letter is an abundance of care in reading the job ad. This is not my issue personally, but I have been on enough search committees to know that many colleagues treat this as extremely important, explicitly or tacitly. From the candidate's point of view, the job in my department may be just one of many on a list to apply to, but from the committee's perspective, it is the one and only job that we are thinking about and trying to fill. So seriousness about this job is important to demonstrate. Another reason to read the job ad carefully is that nearly every word of a job ad is carefully chosen, and the criteria stated in a job ad are reviewed by many parties and can be binding on the search committee, so they are crucial to recognize and address.
A more junior faculty member at a small, private research university responded to the same question with, "'Spark.' Some trace of what they are passionate about. Something that shines through the formulaic phrases that, somehow, have become normative." Another junior colleague at a large, state research university added, "A sense of what they do and who they are in scholarly life beyond the dissertation." Who knew that having a life beyond your dissertation was even possible?
A junior faculty member at a large, private research university suggested, "Clear articulation of an argument and contribution to existing literature, clear articulation of research program. Writing that is clear and accessible to scholars outside the immediate area of the applicant's research." This is especially important in departments that are mixed — like Anthropology, Sociology and Criminal Justice, or Human Development, or Cultural Studies — where you might be the only representative of your field.
A full professor at a medium sized private research university added, "A cogent account of what their dissertation project was about, what it contributes to the wider field, what their methods were (and why). A sense of where they might head next, project-wise — though perhaps more important is a sense of what they'll do with their dissertation work (turn into a book [have they been talking with editors?]? journal articles [are any in the pipeline? out?])."
And, finally, from a mid-career faculty member at a small, private liberal arts university,
First and foremost are qualifications and fit for the position. From there, I look to see how much effort has been made to tailor the letter to the institution and job description. I don't mean simply that the candidate has incorporated the language of the job ad into their letter, but that, for instance, if it is a small liberal arts college, they have emphasized their commitment to undergraduate teaching, rather than simply spending the entire letter talking about their research. Brief mentions of personal reasons for being interested in the position (i.e., proximity to family and friends) don't hurt, particularly if the institution or location is not conventionally considered desirable in its own right.
My own thoughts on job letters haven't really changed much over the years, but these responses definitely add a few things to consider for prospective job seekers:
1) Don't just be descriptive. When it comes to describing one's research — especially a dissertation — it can be pretty tempting to get bogged down in the details. But what people really want to know is that there's more to a dissertation project than the content — and they want to be surprised…or at least intrigued. A lot of dissertation projects can be pretty predictable — topic from Column A, theory from Column B — to the point that a well informed reader can pretty much guess the findings with a brief overview of the data. And when you saturate a job letter with pure data, it doesn't really leave anything to the imagination. It's better to hold back on the description of evidence and lists of topics, and instead give a sense of what the debates in your field are and how you're entering into them with your project — and potentially your whole career. Taking such an approach also gives people a sense that your interests extend beyond whatever your dissertation is about, and that you have contributions to make — what was referred to above as "spark."
2) Give a sense of your trajectory. I tend to think that your CV tells your past and your job letter tells your future. You don't need to spend a lot of time recounting your achievements — they're in the CV — but you should take the time to tell readers what your plans are for the future. This can have to do with your next project, but, also where you are in terms of publishing your research material and what your plans for it are. Faculty want to know that they'll be able to recommend you for tenure at their institution — in part because they might not get a chance to replace you if you don't get tenure since the economy is awful — so looking at the profiles of recently tenured faculty and thinking about your trajectory in similar terms might be very helpful. Did they just need a few articles? A book and some articles? A huge NSF grant? If you have a sense of what an institution is looking for in junior faculty, work it into the job letter.
3) Respond to the advertisement and institution. It's really tempting in an age when there are a lot of demands on one's time during job season to not customize every letter that you send out, but consider it from the reader's perspective: when you're serving on a search committee at an out of the way institution and you receive 200 applications that make no mention of the part of the world you're in, what the ad is calling for, and the strengths of your institution, the handful of letters that do will really stand out. I used to allot myself a set amount of time for each application to do some research on the institution in relation to the advertisement, to check out the local area (looking at real estate and local newspaper websites can be very helpful) and reading faculty profiles and abstracts of their published work. Generally where this all fits in is in the paragraphs about teaching and your institutional fit, but if you can fit it into your research statement — maybe in the opening sentence as a hook — all the better.
4) Appear to be a human being with thoughts, feelings and something resembling a life outside of academia. Again, in an age when people are reading 200 applications for one position, appearing to be a human being with a life outside of your dissertation research can make a huge difference. Remember, you're applying for a job that might be for your entire career — and the entire career of your future colleagues. Having a sense that you can talk about more than just your research might go a long way to differentiating you from the pack. And a canny way to do this is to think about what your life would look like where the institution is — are there features of the place that are particularly appealing, like national or state parks? Are there institutions that you might reach out to, both as faculty and a member of the community? Do you have personal ties to the area? All of these things give letter readers a sense of life beyond the research.
There's a lot to fit into 2 short pages, but I always tell people that job letters are like a Las Vegas show (not that I've ever been to one): you need to leave your audience wanting more. If you tell them too much — especially about the dissertation — the conversation is pretty much over. But if you can engage them on their own terms by addressing the advertisement, the institution, the area, and their imaginations as scholars, you can get out of the slush pile.
Other thoughts on what should be in a job letter? Or have great job letter success or fail stories? Share them in the comments. And thanks to the anonymous friends who responded to my questions.
(NSFW alert: In searching for a picture of a wringer, I stumbled across a fetish I never considered. If you need something to disturb you, check out images of 'the wringer' on Google Images.)
If you've served on a search committee for a tenure-track position in the last five years, would you take a minute and answer some of the following questions (either in the comments or you can email them to me):
1. What do you look for when you read a job letter from a junior scholar?
2. What do you look for when you read a CV from a junior scholar?
3. What do you look for when you read a teaching statement or statement of teaching effectiveness?
4. What do you look for when you read a research statement?
5.What do you think is the most important thing a graduate student can do to prepare for the job market?
6. What makes a good job talk?
7. How do you read job materials from someone not in your field (i.e. you're a cultural anthropologist hiring a biological anthropologist)?
8. How is searching for a tenured position (i.e. already associate or full) different than searching for a junior scholar?
It seems to me that over the last few years, there's been a real intensification of genres in job letters and related material — a generic trend I've probably promulgated as much as diagnosed. But it also seems like these generic trends might not actually be meeting the expectations of people who serve on job search committees. You can see my posts on most of the above topics by clicking on the hyperlinks above — a direct response to any of the topics would be great.
This is officially Phase Two of the professionalization end of this blog, in which I'm hoping to collect answers to the above questions from academics at a variety of institutions and from assistant to associate and full professors. When I have enough answers to each of the above questions, I'll compile them into new posts to run parallel to my more proscriptive ones. Hopefully, taken as a set, these will give job seekers a clear sense of what each of these documents do and how they might be changing.
(Incidentally, and there might be a future post on this — the intensification of genre in academic job materials seems a lot like what Norbert Elias describes in relation to etiquette in The Civilizing Process, which might be a good thing to read if you're on the job market these days…)
Thanks — and stay tuned.
In this post, I discuss three of my articles and what the experience was of getting them through peer review and their ultimate publication. Some of the details are a little foggy — in some cases, it's been upwards of seven years since I started work on the articles mentioned here — but most of what I want to convey is that getting a manuscript to publication depends on two things: 1) don't take criticisms and rejection too seriously, and 2) make sure you're writing for the right audience. If you're doing the second, the first should be minimized anyway…
I should say at the outset that I'm leaving names of journals out, since editorial shifts happen frequently and my experience of any of the journals I've interacted with in the past isn't predictive of your experience with the same journal or editors. I've also kept all of my peer reviews, editorial decisions, and other paperwork from all my publication efforts, and I draw on them below.
So, first off is 'Natural Hegemonies.' I had written it as a job talk back in 2006, and presented it in a few of different versions as colloquium talks and workshop presentations. It's sprawling, and covers a lot of the content from my dissertation — and later, book — in summary format. It was usually well received by audiences, and so it seemed like the good basis for an article to send to a flagship journal. After some fine tuning, I sent it to an anthropology journal generally seen as one of the top of the field. It spent a long time in peer review, and when it returned to me it was returned as a revise and resubmit with five reviews. The reviews were generally positive, with a couple very glowing reviews. The editors had a series of revisions they were seeking, and I set to work on them; they also, in retrospect, had deep philosophical disagreements with me, and if I was reading clearly at the time, I would probably have pulled up stakes after the first round of reviews…
After revising it, I sent it back, and this time it was under review for even longer than the first time. When it was returned to me, it was sent back as a rejection, despite having generally positive reviews. Reviewers said things like 'I found just about every aspect of this text compelling and thoughtful. I urge publication of the manuscript in its current form' and 'This is a great paper, which I enjoyed reading immensely. The paper is engaging, flows, and connects together a series of seemingly unrelated themes together in such a way that they appear in retrospect to be inevitable and one wonders why one never thought about it before. This is the hallmark of a very engaging and persuasive argument, one that appears impossible at the outset and inevitable in retrospect. I'd certainly publish it.' But the editors disagreed. Which, ultimately, was fine. I worked on the manuscript for a couple of hours — addressing only the big things pointed out by reviewers from the last round of review — and sent it to Current Anthropology the same day it was rejected from the other journal. After a round of peer review, it was accepted with minor revisions. I set to work on those revisions, and it ended up coming out in 2011.
What I realized in working on 'Natural Hegemonies' was that the kind of article it was — sweeping in its empirical scope and making a pretty theoretical argument — just wasn't right for the first journal I sent it to. Despite the peer reviewers, the editors saw the mission of the journal as promoting a different form of anthropological scholarship, which my manuscript didn't quite fit. But Current Anthropology offered a more ecumenical approach to the discipline, and the article fit right in there.
A more straightforward path was that of 'Therapy, Remedy, Cure.' I originally wrote it as a colloquium talk around the publication of my book, and presented it a couple of times over the course of a year. Because it was largely ethnographic and developed an argument I saw as of potentially broad appeal — about time, capitalism and medical treatment — I decided to take another stab at publishing in a flagship anthropology journal. Based on what I had seen in the journal recently, I thought the editor would be interested in the piece, and work with me on revising it as needed. But the editorial reigns had just been handed over, and the new editor seemed to have different tastes, including kinds of reviewers to send things to for review.
Of the three reviews that were returned to me, the first was principally concerned that my methods section was a footnote rather than in the body of the article, which would seem easily remedied (and was an artifact of the paper as a presentation). The second reviewer had a number of suggestions, and asked for revisions prior to publication. The third reviewer wrote a three sentence — and extremely positive — review. Despite the reviews, the editor 'definitively' rejected the piece. Not to be dissuaded, I sent it out the same day to Medical Anthropology, a journal I had published in before and always had excellent experiences with.
At Medical Anthropology, the piece received favorable reviews, and was accepted pending revisions, most of which were minor. In my experience, sometimes minor revisions are the hardest to make, since they're usually just to satisfy specific peer reviewer concerns, and they always stick out to me as being just that. But I set down to work on the manuscript, addressed what I needed to, and sent the article back for review within a couple of months, at which point it was accepted for publication. Again, although I thought the argument would be of broad disciplinary interest — maybe it is? — the best home for it was a subfield journal where the kind of evidence and argumentation that was the basis of the manuscript was easily recognized and supported.
Maybe the easiest — yet longest — experience I had was with 'Where Have All Our Naps Gone?' The meat of this paper was in my dissertation (which focuses on various experiments with sleep over the 20th century), but it didn't really fit into the book version. Being largely historical in its focus, I decided to send it to history journals. Over five years, I sent it to five journals. Maybe it was even more than that. Of those journals, a couple times it was rejected without peer reviews — the editors simply thought it wasn't interesting and right for their audience. A couple other times it underwent peer reviews, and was ultimately rejected for one reason or another. I was asked to present something at a workshop on sleep in the 20th century, so I dusted the manuscript off and presented it there, where it received a favorable response — which reaffirmed my sense that there was something to the argument, but that maybe it just wasn't right for historians.
I was asked by Peter Benson and Rebecca Lester to guest edit an issue of Anthropology of Consciousness on sleep, and it dawned on me that maybe this would be the right venue for the piece. Instead of writing a lengthy introduction to the issue, I asked for the article to go through peer review for consideration in the journal. The review process was relatively painless, which may have been because it was a special issue, or because I had been working on the manuscript on and off for so long — or maybe because it finally found the right audience. At Anthropology of Consciousness, the article ended up winning the annual 'outstanding article' award — something I didn't even know existed, but it made it evident to me that the article had finally found its audience. Maybe historians will get turned onto it sooner or later…
Over the years, I've learned to not take rejection as an indictment of my abilities, my research or my writing. The biggest help on this front was peer reviewing other people's work, often that of people I knew and respected. Critically reading through other people's work with the goal of helping them publish also helped me see some of the mistakes that I was making. Going through peer review and doing peer review significantly changed my thinking about writing and how finished something needed to be before it could be sent out — a three-quarters finished manuscript might risk rejection from an editor, but it also gives reviewers a lot to respond to and help you work through.
My general rule is to write a new article manuscript every year. Part of my reason for doing so is that I don't like presenting the same material as colloquium talks more than a few times, so I'm always looking towards the next presentation. The other reason for doing so is that it takes the burden off any one manuscript to get published. If something gets hung up in peer review for a year or two, like 'Natural Hegemonies' did, I know some other stuff will make it through to publication in the meantime.
But, generally, rejection is no big deal. This isn't to say that you should ignore why things are getting rejected, but that rather than over think why things are being rejected, you should take the criticisms seriously, address them as succinctly as you can, and move on. Targeting the right audience will reduce your overall rejection rate, but it's absolutely normal for an article manuscript to be rejected once or more on its way to eventual publication…
Welcome to the inaugural N=1 article writing challenge! The goal is to produce a 6,000-8,000 word article in two weeks, by following these steps: identifying the right journal (and stuff to publish), analyzing a model article, and then writing the conclusion, literature review, case studies and introduction. If you're participating, please post feedback as comments on the individual steps — or, if you prefer anonymity, send me an email. At some future point, I'll put together an addendum to the steps, and include material from the comments and emails I receive.
After years of editing a journal and serving as a peer reviewer, I've become very aware of one critical misstep most authors make: audiences are important. One of the things my steps to article writing try and address is how to conceptualize your audience and write for it. Having a clear sense of who you're writing for and why can speed up the writing process — both in terms of working from scratch and revising the article when it comes back from the journal for revisions (which it will, and that's perfectly normal).
The biggest challenge I see among junior academics is knowing what to publish. Most people seem to think that they need to make a big splash right off the bat. But that's both unrealistic and misguided. If it's in your dissertation, it's probably worth publishing — especially if no one has written about it before; it just needs to find the right audience. The 'big splash' is generally intended for your whole discipline, and that can wait. What you need in your first couple of publications is to endear yourself to your subfield or regional colleagues, and publishing about obscure events or cases from your research is a great first step. So don't get hung up on what to publish — find the audience you want to write for, and then figure out what they might be interested in. It's in your dissertation, so use it.
Godspeed in your writing — and let me know how the steps are working for you!
Are you up for a bit of a challenge? And interested in some professionalization advice testing? Do you want to see how quickly you can churn out a short article manuscript? Then you might be up for my inaugural summer break article writing challenge. Starting July 1st and ending July 14th, I'm asking people to read my series of blog posts on preparing article manuscripts and to provide me with feedback on their experience of following my advice. If you're interested, send me an email and let me know that you're on board.
Over the last several weeks, I've been posting a series of entries about the production of academic articles, largely intended for first-time article writers, but applicable to us all. Over six* steps, I discuss identifying the right journal, analyzing an appropriate model to base your manuscript on, writing introductions, literature reviews, your evidence, and conclusion, and the final steps to prepare the manuscript for submission to a journal (but not in that order).
These posts grew out of an alternative spring break I've begun to offer for anthropology graduate students in the University of California system to spend a week talking about and concentrating on writing an article manuscript — a week-long event that has grown out of my ongoing professionalization workshop series (which you can read summaries of here). By inviting everyone everywhere to participate in this writing event, I'm hoping to gather feedback to add to and revise the Six Steps in future blog posts and professionalization events (which may be coming to a conference near you sometime soon).
As a means of thanking people for helping out in testing my advice, I'm collecting names and will facilitate peer review for those people ready for feedback by July 14th. That is, if you email me and let me know that you'll be participating, when your manuscript is complete, I'll email it to another participant so you can get a round of peer review in the revision process. Before you email me, take a few minutes and read about publishing strategies and Step 1 and send me the name of the journal you're planning on targeting. As we collectively work through the Six Steps, you can either email me your feedback on each step, or respond to the steps in the comment sections of the relevant post.
I'm looking forward to the challenge, and hope you'll join me for it.
*It's actually 7 steps, but the first step — on publishing strategies — was published a long time ago.
After writing your conclusion, literature review, empirical evidence and introduction, you have a full article manuscript in hand, and it's time for some fine tuning before you send it off for peer review to your journal of choice. Fine tuning is really about being deliberate and making sure that the whole manuscript works as a piece of sustained argumentation. More than anything else, you want to make sure that your manuscript is consistent. It doesn't need to be perfect — peer review is there to get it as close to perfect as it can get — so just make sure it's 85% complete and that there aren't any huge gaps.
The biggest challenge in sending a manuscript out for review is coming to terms with it not being 100% complete. But, fundamentally, a manuscript is never done — and it's up to the peer review process to help you finish it (at least enough for it to be published). An article isn't a definitive statement, but rather part of an ongoing conversation (or maybe a conversation starter). As such, the burden is just to carry the conversation forward — not to bring it to a conclusion. Accept that an article is never complete, and get ready to send it out for peer review.
With that in mind, here's the checklist:
1) Make sure that your argument is well articulated and flows throughout the manuscript. Along with that, make sure that keywords that appear in one part of the text appear throughout (e.g. if you're talking about biopolitics in the conclusion, make sure that it's in your introduction, lit review and cases). Read it through once on paper or in some other not-easily modified way and take notes on what to fix (editing at your computer can descend into lots of new writing, and you should avoid that at this point). Maybe take a day or two off and read it again. And then sit down to work through the corrections on the manuscript. I tend to find that having someone else read it during this time to be helpful, as I get a little myopic in my reading of my own work after working on it closely for a while. So a fresh reader can be a great asset, especially when it comes to seeing the inner workings of an argument.
2) Verify that there aren't any non sequitors or holdovers. Hopefully you haven't done a lot of copying and pasting into the manuscript, which usually increases the number of these kinds of artifacts. In any case, read through the manuscript and make sure that everything you say will be done is actually attended to, and that you don't make any presumptions of what happened early in the manuscript at late points (look for those telltale 'as mentioned above…' and 'below'). And make sure that you don't refer to any evidence that isn't in the manuscript.
3) Check your citations and bibliography. Make sure that everything that should be cited is cited, and that the citations appear in the bibliography. It's always a headscratcher as a peer reviewer to check a citation that's unfamiliar to find that it doesn't appear in the bibliography…
4) Ensure that the manuscript meets the journal's formatting guidelines. Every journal should have this information posted on their 'For Authors' or similar page, including their bibliographic style preference and other style concerns. Make sure you follow these as closely as you can (although sometimes things slip through the cracks — which isn't anything to worry about), and know that the more closely you can follow them, the more clearly you demonstrate to the editor that you're serious about publishing in his or her journal and have done your homework. The most important thing here is to make sure that you meet the word limit requirements, usually a little short of target so you have room to revise when it comes time for that.
5) Write your abstract, pick keywords, and write a cover letter. The length of abstracts can vary quite a bit, so make sure you know what you're shooting for — they tend to be anywhere between 150-250 words. I usually find it helpful to take a summary paragraph from the conclusion of an article manuscript and whittle it down into an abstract. Such a technique ensures that you're talking about all the things you need to: the argument, the evidence, and the structure of the article. Remember to pick keywords that aren't in your title (which would be redundant). And prepare a cover letter that briefly states the source (e.g. your dissertation research), intent and word length of the article manuscript. (This all might be worth an additional post…)
If you can, try and do a peer review swap with a friend before you send your article out for review. Make sure that your prospective peer reader is aware of the journal that you're sending it to and the subdisciplinary or regional debates you're entering into — you don't want them to read an article as a 'general' reader, since that's not exactly who you're writing for. Instead, make sure they're reading like a specialist. You want to make sure the comments they're giving you are relevant to your immediate needs, and although a general perspective can be helpful, when you're targeting a specific journal, such comments can often be a distraction.
So that's it. Get to work (or keep working), and know that it can be anywhere from 3-12 months to hear back from a journal's editor. Don't sit on your hands and wait though, get to work on the next article manuscript…


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