Category Archives: Academia

Fisk’s List, Jargon, and Conceptual Brevity

Posted on May 16, 2005 by Timothy Burke

Sharon Howard has a great response to Robert Fisk’s raving about academic jargon. I can only echo it. I’m very friendly to the regular complaint that scholars in the humanities and the social sciences use unnecessary jargon and communicate poorly … Continue reading →

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Built to Last

Posted on May 13, 2005 by Timothy Burke

One of the few blog discussions that I followed pretty closely during my blog-vacation was the spiralling conversation that came out of initial reactions to The Valve. It drew a number of comments from me at various sites, and I … Continue reading →

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Pandora’s Plan

Posted on May 12, 2005 by Timothy Burke

The low rumble of discussion over the last few years about the process of assessing the needs in various departments has finally broken out into an invitation to faculty to send in their own thoughts about future needs to the … Continue reading →

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