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yes. oops.

27 June 2008 at 20:47 » Comments (0)

How to Survive Your PhD: Everything You Need to Know on One Page
by David Gauntlett
But by his timeframe I’m soooo in trouble.
Meh.
  



average age at receipt of phd=33

24 June 2008 at 18:55 » Comments (0)

I’m going to be right on track…
One thing is clear from the data: This is not a field that produces Wunderkinder, bright young things who make their mark at a precocious age. In fact, some of our sample members have kept their best wine until last. Creativity in academic information science is clearly not the […]



ha!

24 June 2008 at 16:57 » Comments (0)

Gallery of the worst information graphics ever. Sad….
  



read it here first.

24 June 2008 at 0:43 » Comments (0)

In my dissertation proposal I offer an initial operating definition of information organization behavior to replace the unacceptable one I’ve ranted about before:
Any activities undertaken by a person or people—uncoordinated or working as a group in an organization or institution—to describe, represent, name, order, structure, categorize or class information objects. Information organization behavior takes place […]



writing.

23 June 2008 at 19:43 » Comments (0)

Despite the awkward state of my literature review’s grammar and spelling,1 I am quite concerned with writing well. Being an academic is no excuse for being utterly boring. Says the cataloging teacher…
I am now writing my proposal and I noticed I am repeating words: summarize, describe, review. This reminded me I have been meaning to […]