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 research )

I know there will be a lot of IANAL thrown in here, but i figured i might ask some folks who have been there for advice ( Read more... )

Hopefully you will all appreciate this as much as I did... but then, schadenfreude is my favorite flavor, so... I'm starting to think there should be a legal limit on the amount of stupidity allowed from supposedly grown adults.

( cut for those uninterested in history thesis-related utter, utter stupidity )

I once read somewhere that football combines the worst 2 aspects of United States culture:  violence and committee meetings ( Read more... )

What happens when, after having your dissertation topic approved and deciding on which direction to take, theoretical and otherwise, you find something very similar recently published (in the humanities, English in particular). In this very similar, recently published piece, there are a bunch of your arguments, some of your theoretical ( Read more... )

Context - I am a PhD student in a humanities discipline, and, like everyone else in this age of publish or perish, I am looking to my scholarly laurels. In thinking about ways to do this, I've come across what seems to be a bit of a US/UK cultural difference, and so I wanted to seek the general a_a opinion ( Read more... )

I urgently - URGENTLY - need something that 1) needs to be done and 2) is so unpleasant that I'd rather work on my dissertation ( Read more... )

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Greetings, friends ( Read more... )

My (history) thesis discussion seminar last Wednesday devolved into a bitchfest discussion on, among other things, thesis proposals. Some of my cohort's advisors are requiring that their proposals be accepted by their committees before the students are allowed to go forward in their thesis. Baldly, one student's advisor refuses to read any of her ( Read more... )