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| Hi Everyone,I checked the tags and poked around the site (which I've been watching for a long time), but didn't find anything on this topic, so here goes; hope it's not repetitive. ( My experience hiring transcriptionists for my master's researchCollapse )Since then, however, freelancer-finding sites seem to have proliferated exponentially, and I'm having a hard time figuring out if any are discernibly better or worse or more or less legit than others. I also really feel like I got lucky with my transcriptionist last time, and that things could very easily have gone poorly. So I'm wondering if anyone has had luck with a particular site or service, or has any words of warning based on his or her experience hiring a transcriptionist, or has any other ideas about ways to do this. Thanks in advance!Tags:ask the a_a reference desk, dissertations-and-theses, research methods, resources The situation:There is a spanish project [beginners II spanish] worth 20% of our final grade. A girl in my class did her presentation and used posts from a blog, (the blog is a political blog where each post is a picture with a caption underneath) and the blogs title without credit.The assignment was to create an original presentation - the outline states that the use of materials without credit is academic dishonesty. Marks have not been distributed yet for the projects. It's the end of the year and I'm not sure whether this is worth reporting to the professor because I am not sure if he'll even take action on it, especially since this is her last semester for her BA and since the course is a degree requirement her, failing the course or other disciplinary action may prevent her from graduating.Is it worth approaching the professor? What would you recommend the best way of approaching the professor to be?Tags:ask the a_a reference desk, plagiarism-and-cheating Cross posting this from my journal, with a little background:The arts instructor for our summer program asked me to do a visual arts guest lecture. Woo! She also wanted to know if I could come up with an essay or reading to prepare the students. I immediately went to John Berger's Ways of Seeing, but after a couple minutes flipping through it, I remember why I hated it. Schizoid layout, all the way. Plus, he is restating ideas from Benjamin's Work of Art in the Age of It's mechanical reproduction (reproducibility) - so it seems I should just throw that at them anyway.They'll be talking about myth in that week, and getting an intro to my work (the standard slideshow that I give as a guest lecturer, with my work, and work that relates) and it seems that the Benjamin article is a good, challenging piece that would allow them to really dig into the idea of art as object, the myth of the object, and so on...Other options I'm considering: Abigail Solomon-Godeau's Photography after Art Photography...or a selection from Charlotte Cotton's Photograph as Contemporary art (since that's really more of a 'popular' approach to art history?) Or, perhaps a Dave Hickey interview (I sadly don't have Air Guitar, because twice now my copy's been pilfered)...or I was considering using the Errol Morris columns about the Mickey Mouse photo in Israel.The real question here is that they're not even freshmen yet. And I'm not their professor. They're also not visual arts students. The instructor is looking to me as an authority on visual art - she's a performance MFA, with experience in theater. She's already had a guest lecturer in music. I emailed her to see how specifically she wanted me to present the talk, and the reading, but the critical bit is that the talk is in a week and a half - but I'll be gone for a week in between, and need to give her the readings tomorrow.So my question, after all that: How much is too much for students who have been admitted into an "academic bootcamp" pre-college program (they've all been admitted into our Big Research University for the fall, and are in our special academic program based on their application and experience), and how much is too much for me to put together as someone who is *just* a guest lecturer?Thanks in advance - and I apologize if this really doesn't make sense! :) EDIT: Ok - I found what I needed - "Principles of Interpretation" from Criticizing Art by Terry Barrett. (page 14-19 of this pdf) But I'm leaving up the post in order to see if any other responses come along that might be interesting, useful, etc. Cheers! And here is a pina colada.Tags:"the a_a reference desk", advice-for-those-new-to-academia, article/site-recommendation, ask the a_a reference desk, teaching-assistant-stuff I know we may have an economist or 3 in our midst - I was wondering if any of you can recommend readings on the barter economy or small economic circles (trading services and such) and how that may play a role in the expansion or destruction of capitalism? It's just something I was thinking about this morning. I am not sure that I know the right language to properly search for readings, and I'm interested in valid texts on the subject rather than right wing/left wing blowhards that have an axe to grind.Thanks a ton. :)Tags:"the a_a reference desk", ask the a_a reference desk, recommendations Hi folks,I've scanned heaps of things under the tags and not had any luck, so going to be brave and post the question here:Can you please tell me about texts you have used in a World History Survey course? (As teacher or student)Ideally, I'd like a title and then a comment or two about what was good or bad about the book.I've been searching for book reviews, text recommendations etc. and just can't seem to find anything. Although, I confess, I'm rather taken with The No-Nonsense Guide to World History by Chris Brazier. Can you imagine teaching a World History survey with a book that is less than 200 pages, coupled with regular, selected primary texts?Tags:ask the a_a reference desk, course development, reading-recommendations, when google fails-a_a to the rescueMood:hopeful Does anyone know how to change the output format of a shortened or repeated footnote reference in Endnote? I've been tweaking the main output style (a version of the Oxford setting), and have no problem adapting the output style of a regular, first-use footnote, but I can't find the menu option to make repeated references come out as anything but Author Last Name) at Page Number. I'd ideally like Name Year at Page.Surely that must be doable? What say the a_a?Tags:ask the a_a reference desk, software-and-technologyMood:busy _edited_Does anyone know of any opportunities for a recent bachelor-level graduate to get funding (fellowship?) for a mentored research project (specific project I chose at a specific top-tier university)? I'm NOT enrolled in graduate school. In the field of neuroscience/psychiatry/neuroendocrinology.I only know about Fulbright. I was wondering if there is something else?Thanks in advance to all.Tags:ask the a_a reference desk, funding, scholarships-grants-and-funding Is anyone in or knows who the key players are in the realms of behavioral neuroendocrinology or stress research and its impact on learning in animal models? I'm looking for names and their location -- both US based and abroad, esp. in Germany.I'm googling, and pubmed-ing and such, and have began gathering some data, but I thought I'd ask for some help in the mean time because this is taking forever..Tags:ask the a_a reference desk I'm going to be doing interviews in a bit and thought I'd see what types of recording devices a_a members have found to be the most useful. Right now I'm using a Panasonic digital recorder that will do about two hours at a stretch. It has been alright but I find the two hour limit a bit of a problem when I have longer sessions. I'd like to find something that will record for longer periods of time and as well as letting me pull the files off like a flash-drive instead of needing specific software. I don't think that I'm being difficult with this requirements but so far I'm not finding anything that makes me especially enthused.What types of recorders do you use? Any thing to avoid? Has anyone used recorders that will record phone conversations?Tags:ask the a_a reference desk, getting organized, software-and-technology Hello! New member, first year grad student with a TA/RA split with my adviser. It's that time of year, term papers are due and I'm to grade my first batch for a behavioral neurogenetics class. My prof wants me to check for plagiarism, as in previous years his TA's have found entire papers filched from the web. I've heard of turnitin, but it requires an institutional license which I do not have. Does anyone know of an equivalent website or program, at free or low cost? Thanks in advance!Tags:ask the a_a reference desk, grading, plagiarism-and-cheating Hi everyone,I teach graduate-level psychology courses. After I give a test, I examine each item to determine the percent of students who answered that item correctly. If that percent is low (i.e. less than half), I "throw out" the question. I figure with such a low success rate, it is probably the question which is poor, and not the student. I was wondering if anyone knows of a formula for such a practice, or more concrete suggestions as to a cut-off for a "good" versus "poor" test question. Of course, if any such formula is validated in an article, all the better! ;-)Thank you!Tags:article-request, ask the a_a reference desk, how-to-guides Is it wildly inappropriate to request that my students provide me with ratings on RateMyProfessors.com?I am brand new to teaching, and I am very hungry for feedback!I already utilize my own mid-term evaluation as well as my department's final course evaluations to help me improve, but I figure more feedback is always better.What do y'all think?-j*EDIT*: Eep! I didn't know RMP.com was so widely disparaged...Tags:ask the a_a reference desk, student-evaluations So, my Kodak digital camera just croaked and I'm off to the archives in two weeks. I took a trip to the store and there were no less than 10 options all with high resolution and a text setting. What digital camera are you using/eying right now? Any recommendation on things I should be looking for in a new camera? I'm thinking very strongly about getting another Kodak easyshare.UPDATE:Thanks everyone. I decided to go with the Panasonic FZ5S. It takes great pictures of documents and will make a great camera in general.Tags:ask the a_a reference desk, recommendations, software-and-technologyMood:content Hi folks,I've had a wander through the tags in an effort to see if this has been discussed before. No luck, so either it hasn't been brought up, or it wasn't tagged in a way I recognised. The post has gotten a bit long, so I'll put part of it behind a cut.I'm a final year PhD student at a UK university. I'm Canadian and will be going back to Canada following the completion of my degree. I would like to do a post-doc, but I'm a bit stumped. And while I'd like to just get on with my thesis and deal with this later, I can't really do so because SSHRC (the major Canadian funding body that covers my field) wants application in the autumn.Firstly, and this may sound ignorant, but I can't seem to get a consistent answer: what is a post-doc? Is it different between North America and the UK? Is it different between Canada and the US?Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.Tags:ask the a_a reference desk, us/uk divideMood:perplexed A person teaching a class I want to take at another school (that is, not someone I know well enough to first-name him) has the following characteristics:- B.F.A.- Better known for being an artist than an academicbut also ...- Teaching an upper-level class- Listed as "full-time faculty"When I send him an e-mail asking for a way around the prereqs*, do I call him Mr. or Professor?(*it's a language class, so I just need to test in - probably by interview with him - rather than take their version of the lower-level classes)ETA: Survey says ... "professor," but this being art, don't be surprised if there's a rapid switch to first-naming. (Survey also says that I seem snotty and condescending when I italicize things for emphasis and don't think carefully about other interpretations that pattern of emphasis could convey. *sigh* and I call myself a linguist ...) Thanks for your help!Tags:ask the a_a reference desk, etiquette-and-ethicsMood:puzzled I'm applying for a sessional teaching job. The course I'd be teaching is similar to one I've already taught. I've noted this in my cover letter but would be advantageous to include the syllabus I taught previously or would this be shooting myself in the foot (because the hiring committee could look at the syllabus and conclude they don't like it)? Tags:ask the a_a reference desk, job applications, job marketMood:curiousMusic:American Music Awards Top of Page | | | 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