Funding agencies and academic institutions are requiring researchers to participate in knowledge-sharing activities, which can go by a range of different names: knowledge mobilization, knowledge dissemination, knowledge exchange, knowledge translation, and integrated knowledge translation. For some kinds of research, the best approach is to do your study and then share your results—meaning, that you doContinue reading “Getting Your Research into the World”
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“Or” does not preclude “and”
I find few instances of academic writing in which “and/or” is a better choice than simply “or.” As the above image illustrates, when you connect a pair of words with “or,” you’re not ruling out the possibility of “and”; that is, “or” includes “and” within its meaning. In my experience, many writers are using “and/or”Continue reading ““Or” does not preclude “and””
Evaluating an AI Tool Designed for Academic Researchers: Consensus
By now, we’ve all seen how poorly ChatGPT deals with academic research—especially with citations. ChatGPT is known to make up details that sound real but are false, even going so far as to create fake DOIs. But ChatGPT doesn’t represent all of AI, or even all of the subset of Generative AI. New AI toolsContinue reading “Evaluating an AI Tool Designed for Academic Researchers: Consensus”
“The PhD is largely a process of self-education”: Science editor and fiction writer Andy Park
This post is part of Editing After Academia, a series that spotlights editors who have found fulfilling careers outside academia. Andy Park had been a professor of forest ecology for 17 years before deciding to begin training as an editor. He figured freelance editing would help his transition into retirement, but it also opened spaceContinue reading ““The PhD is largely a process of self-education”: Science editor and fiction writer Andy Park“
“The exciting work happens here, and editors can work at that intersection”: Academic Developmental Editor Pia Kohler
This post is part of Editing After Academia, a series that spotlights editors who have found fulfilling careers outside academia. As an editor, Pia Kohler gets to embrace interdisciplinarity in a way she couldn’t in her years as an academic. With three interdisciplinary degrees under her belt (physical geography, environmental science, and international environmental policy),Continue reading ““The exciting work happens here, and editors can work at that intersection”: Academic Developmental Editor Pia Kohler”
“I get to invigorate my life now by reading widely again”: Academic Editor Sarah O’Brien
This post is part of Editing After Academia, a series that spotlights editors who have found fulfilling careers outside academia. After Sarah O’Brien defended her dissertation, she walked into the office of her department’s Director of Graduate Studies and was handed a list of Mellon postdoctoral positions. At the time of her graduation, in 2012,Continue reading ““I get to invigorate my life now by reading widely again”: Academic Editor Sarah O’Brien”
“I don’t care if it was sweeping floors–everything I’ve done has been valuable”: J. Colleen Berry, Editor
This post is part of Editing After Academia, a series that spotlights editors who have found fulfilling careers outside academia. As a first-generation student, Colleen Berry had already adopted an mindset of chasing the value rather than the title. Whether it was sweeping floors or teaching abroad or at a university, early on she developedContinue reading ““I don’t care if it was sweeping floors–everything I’ve done has been valuable”: J. Colleen Berry, Editor”
First You Write a Sentence (Moran, 2018)
What is a sentence, anyway? In First You Write a Sentence (Penguin, 2018), Joe Moran skirts some possible definitions. Writing a sentence is like birdwatching (page 7), cooking (page 10), or tying your shoelaces (page 17). A sentence is “a small, sealed vessel for holding meaning. It delivers some news—an assertion, command or question—about theContinue reading “First You Write a Sentence (Moran, 2018)”