In response to Timefortea, I think it's perfectly acceptable to silently correct a small error like that. There is no need to write [sic] unless you have reason or want to notify your reader that the original quotation was incorrect. For example, if you were making a point about the author's misattention to detail it may help your cause to write [sic] here. If however, you have no need to do so, a silent correction here would be the most noble thing to do academically (IMO).

:-)

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Hello all :)

I'm contemplating getting my act together and trying to publish some work and was just going over the submission requirements and layout requests for some journals I'm interested in. I note, though, some ask for a "short CV" to accompany my submission ... having never submitted anything before, I'm not really sure what this would entail, how short is short? What sort of information should I include? Just academic experience I expect? Or ...?

Can someone out there enlighten me please? :)

Just to let you know, I received the article safely, and voted you as a helpful user :D :D

Thanks anyway Pixie. I appreciate you looking for me.

Hi everyone. I wondered if anyone doing anything Geography related had access to this article:

Changing Formulations of the Man-Environment Relationship in Anglo-American Geography
D. N. Jeans
Journal of Geography, 1752-6868, Volume 73, Issue 3, 1974, Pages 36 – 40

My athens password doesn't cover it, but I'd really like to read it if it's possible. Thanks ever so much.

H :)

Hi Coffee, I must say this sounds very unfair on your part. I'm not sure why your sup would leave you high and dry, especially when, as you suggest, international calls/skype/IMs are all so easy nowadays. You are still paying tuition fees I imagine??!

You're right that there's little advice to be offered; no one can go out and cuff your supervisor to her phoneline, although, I would be tempted to write her a candid email explaining this pattern of nonresponse, the amount of times you have tried to contact her, and the fact that no-one has read much of your work. I would also be very inclinded to CC in the head of dept, although, if you wanted to be "fairer", you could ask her if she would prefer you to move supervisors, or if she thought distance was a problem to dicuss with the departmental head, and see what she says, if anything. Where I study we have DORPs (Directors of research), I'm not sure if everyone has this, but my DORP would be the person I would go to if I had any problems with my supervisor. You could also try approaching somebody like this via email, nothing accusatory, just a nudge toward how worried this makes you feel.

You know ... I would really like to whack David Cameron with my handbag.

And let's say my handbag has the latest Oxford English Dictionary in it.

The current Conservatives do not support this as you say, so it's kind of a moot point which more bolsters the argument that the present government is, in fact, damaging social mobility. As far as I am concerned, what they did or did not do in the past does not change what they're doing now.

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Slizor, I think it would make a lively discussion/debate if nothing else. I just received an email from my university summarising the findings as follows:

In short the Review recommends that:

The cap on tuition fees, which is currently set at £3,290, should be lifted, allowing universities to set their own fee levels.
Universities should be subject to a levy on fees above £6,000, which would cover the cost to the Government of providing upfront student finance. The Review estimates that a fee of £7,000 would be needed to maintain the current unit of resource (based on their estimate of likely cuts in HEFCE funding for teaching).
Graduates should begin to repay the cost of their fees when their earnings reach £21,000, (they are presently required to begin repayment when they earn £15,000)
The four existing higher education bodies (the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the Quality Assurance Agency, the Office for Fair Access, and the Office of the Independent Adjudicator) be replaced by a single Higher Education Council.

We must consider them alongside the very substantial reductions in public funding for Higher Education that are expected to be announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review on 20th October and must also take account of the extent to which the Government adopts the recommendations of the Review.

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Exactly Sneaks, and remember those average-well paid people won't get child allowance, and will pay more income tax soon too. Cameron seems intent on destroying the middle class. :/

I will allso add: how will stifling higher education and research do anything but harm and retard the economy? Everyone benefits from an educated society, not just those who are being educated. It's not fair to make university students bear the whole cost, especially when those people who are responsible for the recession enjoyed a free education.

... and this idea about the graduate tax on student loans. Meanwhile the people behind this f***ery enjoyed a free university education.

Melsie, you can block individual sites on ie, not sure about time-outs etc (maybe just unblock them when you're done). Here's how: http://www.gotknowhow.com/articles/how-to-block-websites-in-internet-explorer-8

Always good to meet a fellow English scholar Bleebles :) :)

Thank you purple and Ev. Really appreciate your help.

:/ I do English and I'm used to my tutors saying such and such is inelegant, condensed, spraswling, frail ... and much worse. Of course they also say when I write a great phrase, a punchy sentence, and so on.

I thought clonkily sounded comic enough not to cause offence, and I was only referring to two words out of, I imagine, thousands.

Sorry to offend. I honestly thought it was a helpful suggestion, and that it was the "take them" impacting on the way one read "comfort zone". Obviously you disagree, and that's fine by me.