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What if you had three or four articles in high ranking journals, had written a book or two, and given many conferences, have a teaching qualification and lots of teaching experience?
How important would the social aspect you speak of be?
I just really hate cocktail parties and sucking up to people (although I have noticed that people less professionally competent but more social often get jobs).
I don't just mean at PhD level I mean in your life in academia.
Just got a piece of writing back where I got 17 out of 22 which I thought was quite good, however one of the markers just listed a whole load of negative comments on my writing.
It is some of the most useless feedback I have ever had. None of it is constructive and none of it really offers helpful advice. I feel I more or less know how to improve my own writing but it would be nice for feedback to be useful.
Has anyone ever had this problem before? It doesn't really worry me how useless the feedback is but it would be great to hear other peoples' opinions. As it happen lots of people in my department are unhappy with their feedback even when they are happy with their marks.
It feels like this marker has some sort of a problem with being a positive and helpful person as if that would somehow be the wrong thing to do! I can say this because I know him in person and have spoken to him a lot face-to-face.
All the best.
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