Grad-flake 01: what do you mean you "can't find primary articles on your research topic?" I went to Google (just plain 'ole Google, not Google Scholar, my friend...), and typing in just half of the keywords of your research topic I found loads 'n loads of primary article goodness. It is a whole 8 months before you are required to schedule a supervisory committee meeting, which is the earliest I can get the wheels turning to boot you out, by which time my research grants will be several thousand dollars lighter due to paying part of your stipend. I feel like I'm gonna be sick...
Grad-flake 02: Yes, I know you need publications to be a serious contender for a research scholarship. You aren't doing yourself any favours when you tell me that you proofread your manuscript "a lot, 3-4 times," and it is still riddled with spelling errors. No, I don't care that the program is telling you that there are no spelling errors. Trust me, it is not spelled 'specis'. You're not the first person to click 'Ignore all' on previous spell-checks to get rid of that annoying red underlining that tells you you've spelled something wrong.
What the heck is a specis?
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ReplyDeleteyes, species. not cool when the manuscript's main theme is about biodiversity.
ReplyDelete"Specis" is part of our evolving lexicon. I'd hope biologists would appreciate that.
ReplyDeleteWait, our biological lexicon is evolving? Is this some kind of ontological paradox or do I get a gold star for getting BB's joke?
ReplyDeleteSigh, can't you jackbooted prescriptivist fascists see that language is an unending process? I mean, you knew what the gradflake *meant*, didn't you? By participating in this multivocal discourse, this student's on the cutting edge of communications.
ReplyDeleteWow, I think I just got a linguistics smackdown. Takes me back to my Brit Lit major days... You had me at "prescriptivist fascists."
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