Comments | moonyprof: Ascendio: Before it begins

moonyprof

Ascendio: Before it begins

Jul 18, 2012 21:03

Usually, I work my ass off getting ready for these. It has to be academic, because that's really what I'm supposed to be there for, so the costumes have to be last minute. This year the paper felt thrown together, too, but I still think it was pretty good.

( This is research. )

ascendio, werewolves, lupin, research

Comments 7

pennswoods July 19 2012, 04:36:20 UTC

Oh god, seriously. That's so not research. I mean, it's the beginning perhaps if you don't know what else you're doing but research is messy and full of paper and documents and files and notes and stuff.

lauriempress July 19 2012, 05:41:15 UTC

*just sighs and hugs*

dicreasy July 19 2012, 13:30:56 UTC

I’m sure the paper was fine. :D ( ... )

penguingirl03 July 19 2012, 16:23:15 UTC

And that is what my office floor looks like on a regular basis as well. Google is good for finding the places that have the primary sources that you need (and even then you'll miss some and find out about them by word of mouth later) but is definitely not the end-all-be-all for research.

ravenna_c_tan July 27 2012, 06:30:40 UTC

Ahaha. Not even Google Scholar Search takes the place of reading the actual papers, books, etc... (I sometimes have people trying to just lift the abstracts and quote those, close but no cigar.)

Lovely to make your acquaintance at Ascendio and I truly hope our paths will cross again in the near future!

moonyprof July 27 2012, 06:40:14 UTC

What is this Google *Scholar* thing you speak of? My students pick things from websites called things like "A Day At The Globe With Billy And His Pals!" Or the IMDB. Or in a few cases, from the Amazon review of a DVD, or some publisher's site. The dead giveaway is usually a stylistic change that is like hitting a speed bump at 80 mph.

I'm sure they will! Thank you for finding space for me to read my fanfic. I really enjoyed it, because I so rarely share it with anybody. It's that "I'm a scholar/no I'm a fan" thing. I'm beginning to think of it like Jekyll and Hyde.

ravenna_c_tan July 27 2012, 07:49:21 UTC

Grin. I'm getting to do the opposite. I'm a fan who writes academic papers because it's fun... which has led to me presenting at some academic conferences. I wore a Ravenclaw scarf to Popular Culture Association and George Takei was the keynote speaker, so I feel like in that corner of academe anyway, being a complete fangeek is OK. (There were people there in Starfleet uniforms...) Wish me luck; I got a paper accepted for a conference in York (UK) but am waiting to hear whether I got the travel grant I'll need to get myself across the pond!