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# Is a PhD the path to a grad job? Ask the waitress with several degrees
A PhD turned waitress
So, here I sit, a disgruntled graduate of the system. A PhD turned waitress. A waste of taxpayer money, of my own time and that of the people who taught me. I write this as a means to speak out, as I refuse to be another cog in the wheel that turns according to a code of silence.
Steven Pinker On His Sense Of Style : Nature News & Comment
Writing style
The main difference between good writing and turgid mush — academese, corporatese, and so on — is that good writing is a window onto the world. The writer narrates an ongoing series of events which the reader can see for himself, if only he is given an unobstructed view. In…
Who Pays For Academic Publishing? Some Data Trails… | Ouseful.info, The Blog...
Vanity publishing as academic publishing
If you aren’t in academia, you may not realise that what used to be referred to as ‘vanity publishing’ (paying to get your first novel or poetry collection published) is part of the everyday practice of academic publishing. But it isn’t called that, obviously, because your work…