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Title: JournalismScam
Review: If you are looking for a book that finds as many bad examples of bad teaching and bad professorship as a person could find ... this book is for you. But if you want a nuanced, and intelligent, approach to the problems of the professoriate, you will have to look elsewhere. The author piles egregious examples on top of one another and then thinks he has a case. To make the case that he wants, he needs to show that the majority, or at least a significant number, of professors pilfer away their days in idleness. Instead, like journalists who are on the prowl for "bad scoop", Sykes finds what he is was looking for ... but this is journalismscam, not research! I know far too many professors who work too hard even to be bothered with studies like this.
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