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ask a scatterbrain: self-citation in works in progress
Is there a standard way to indicate that an author has cut and paste a chunk of text from an earlier work into a work-in-progress? As I move from one part of a larger project to another, I like to plu… more →
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ask a scatterbrain: self-citation in works in progress
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wrote 1 week ago: Is there a standard way to indicate that an author has cut and paste a chunk of text from an earlier … more →
bleg: favorite network visualization software?
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wrote 1 month ago: I am beginning an analysis that involves network visualizations. I’m in good shape with respec … more →
professors unplugged.
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wrote 3 months ago: I just received my invitation to participate in the 4th Annual “Professors Unplugged.” W … more →
ask a scatterbrain: too few papers for my asa session
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wrote 3 months ago: A reader writes: I agreed to organize a Regular Session for Denver. Disappointingly, there are only … more →
reading and annotating on iPad
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wrote 4 months ago: I am mulling the possibility ofmoving to iPad for use in reading, marking up, and filing PDF article … more →
scatterbleg: income and altruistic wishes
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wrote 6 months ago: My wife is working on a project that demonstrates, among other things, that lower-income adolescents … more →
ask a scatterbrain: training grads in research ethics
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wrote 9 months ago: One of the many wonderful sociologists I chatted with in Vegas was Iowa’s Mary Campbell, a loy … more →
ask a scatterbrain: journal submission length
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wrote 11 months ago: Posted by request of a reader: Some journals have maximum length guidelines for manuscripts that one … more →
ask a scatterbrain: recent theory books
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wrote 1 year ago: All right folks, it’s spring break which means it’s also time for me to think about what … more →
ask a scatterbrain: crossover sociology
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wrote 1 year ago: I am finally getting around to writing the second paper based on letters-to-the-editor data I collec … more →
ask a scatterbrain: departmental colloquia
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wrote 1 year ago: What do your departments do for departmental colloquia? I have seen various different models; I … more →
socialization syllabus.
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wrote 1 year ago: I’m constructing the syllabus for a new upper-level sociology class next semester, “Soci … more →
ask a scatterbrain: what are the big questions?
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wrote 1 year ago: This one comes from a graduate student who shall remain anonymous: When we say “the big questi … more →
ask a scatterbrain: what four words best describe you
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wrote 1 year ago: My wife is working on analyzing the results of an instrument that included “what four words be … more →
a philosophy cheat sheet for social theory
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wrote 1 year ago: As I’ve been preparing to teach, for the first time, an Advanced Social Theory graduate semina … more →
ask a scatterbrain: qualitative informants
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wrote 1 year ago: I’m posting this question for a friend. I suggested for a project she’s working on that … more →
ask a scatterbrain: blogging for class assignments
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wrote 2 years ago: Look, two scatterbrain questions in 24 hours! This fall I’ll be teaching my first-year seminar … more →
ask a scatterbrain: textbook payola
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wrote 2 years ago: Posted for an unnamed friend: A college textbook representative, upon learning I was dropping a book … more →
ask a scatterbrain: advanced social theory
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wrote 2 years ago: OK, it’s time to order books for the fall (zoinks!). I’m really excited about my graduat … more →
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