Professional development day, 5 February 2010
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On teaching
- Goodnight, loves to teach public sphere
- O'leary, publishes on religion, loves orality, literacy theory, goody, ong, innis, mcluhan
- digital tech + religion
- Laura, interp pop cult, advertising & society
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- for critical issues, and jobs
Job interview
- Ask for your ideal class to teach
- Sample syllabi
- Use quals reading list
- Why here?
- Where will you be in 5 years?
- Dog + pony on diss research
- What can you teach?
- Helps to be familiar with their catalog
- What do you do that no one else does?
- What gap can you fill that they need / students want?
- Show how your course is unique and HOW it fits in
- Situation work within Annenberg thematic reputation
- Globalization
- New comm technology
- Public culture
- Connect to core topics (see Chronicle)
- Everyone need good Composition teachers
Positioning yourself
You must be both:
- Niche
- Generalist
- Prepare for both but do research ahead of time to determine how to approach interviews
Integrate teaching + research
- Interdisciplinary
- Interactive, engaging with students
Teaching at ASCJ
- Center for Excellence in Teaching (CET)
- seminars and opportunities
- SBW connected to the CET, organizing seminars for ASCJ students
- Ask Imre about teaching needs
On publishing
Common rejections
- Not APA
- Mechanical issues
- Proofreading
- Inappropriate for the journal
Get familiar with journal before submission
- Read previous issues
- Do you cite articles from it?
- Some factor in their "impact" measure
- Demonstrate your familiarity with the journal and its peers.
Anticipate reviewers
- Check editorial board
- Some journals accept a "preferred reviewer" list with people to include or exclude
Conference/ journal crossover
- Conference papers should not be published
- Be clear about your paper's status
- Print journals have space constraints, respect this
"Revise, resubmit"
- Timeliness
- Submissions occasionally take a long time to review
- If you want to "cut the bait" and send to second journal, you should formally contact the editors and withdraw
- (Note: generally ok to send books to multiple publishers.)
Anonymize your submission in advance
- In text self-references
- Identifying meta-data
- Clear out headers, footers, acknowledgements
