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Ask Dr. Editor
BY LETITIA HENVILLE | June 18 2019

The political and persuasive significance of being intentionally hard to understand.

dissertation will necessarily include a lot of non-English words (notably Swahili and Maa). How should I quote my sources? I’ve seen different authors do different things: quote in translated English with the original in parentheses or a footnote; quote the original in text, in italics, and use pa...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/ask-dr-editor/integrating-non-english-words-into-academic-writing/
Ask Dr. Editor
BY LETITIA HENVILLE | May 24 2023

Most journal articles use the technique to help readers navigate the text.

dissertation, and the copy editor removed almost all my signposting. I was always taught to include signposting in my writing, so I’m pretty confused by these edits. Aren’t journal articles meant to have signposting? How do you know when you’re doing signposting well?  

https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/ask-dr-editor/charting-a-path-for-your-reader-how-to-signpost-well/

It’s never just academic
BY ALEXANDRE BEAUPRÉ-LAVALLÉE | May 04 2022

His recent death reminded me of the crucial role that The Consenting University and the Dissenting Academy: Binary Friction played in my academic and intellectual journey. This is a tribute to a man I never met and to a paper he wrote.

dissertation would be about university governance. Fresh from a term as full-time vice-president for academic affairs in a student union, I was obviously going to take a critical perspective on university relations. In this case, “critical” was going to mean a thorough denunciation of the transf...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/its-never-just-academic/a-personal-tribute-to-james-downey/
Prof ou pas?
BY EMILIE-JADE POLIQUIN | October 07 2021

Les mots ont un poids, parfois lourd à porter. Quand le plan B devient le plan A de la majorité, il est temps de réviser notre vocabulaire.

dissertation) et ces titulaires de doctorat sans poste permanent? Il ne nous reste guère d’autres choix que de nous tourner vers notre plan B. Si décrocher un contrat permanent de professeur.e est sans nul doute une immense réussite et le résultat d’un travail acharné, ne pas décrocher ...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/conseils-carriere/prof-ou-pas/pour-en-finir-avec-la-culture-du-plan-b/
Career Advice
BY LETITIA HENVILLE | March 25 2024

Why six former academics decided to launch themselves into the world of research grants support.

dissertation, and earn a black belt in karate. I now work full-time as a grants facilitator at Brock University, where my experience with the social sciences and humanities lead to a specialization in the SSHRC portfolio of grants. This year, I was involved in my first successful Partnership Grant a...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/how-to-make-research-grants-facilitation-and-editing-your-career/
Career Advice
BY MEAGAN AUER | April 04 2024

Despite their good intentions, some interactions with our supervisors can cause feelings of stress, guilt and anxiety.

dissertation research. I conducted in-depth and open-ended interviews with past and present doctoral students. Participants were enrolled at Canadian universities in social sciences and humanities disciplines between 2018 and 2023. Meagan Auer is a PhD candidate in political science at t...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/how-to-navigate-the-cruelty-of-supervisory-care/
Features
BY JOEY FITZPATRICK | April 07 2008

Les activités de recherche concertées découlant d’un échange bidirectionnel d’information entre les chercheurs et la population gagnent du terrain.

dissertations, des pièces de théâtre, des sketchs ou des nouvelles dont l'action se déroule en 2020. L'événement s'adressait à tous, et, bien qu'il ait attiré des agriculteurs et des étudiants en agriculture, certains participants provenaient d'un domaine tout à fait différent. Les résul...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/articles-de-fond/article/mobilisation-des-connaissances/
Features
BY ROSANNA TAMBURRI | January 12 2009

No one’s studying Canadian politics anymore, or not the way they used to. Should we care?

dissertations in Canadian politics, I think that’s a problem. It’s going to be a large problem because, as university professors, we don’t teach just political scientists. We teach citizens and we help to educate citizens about what it means to participate in government and to have democratic ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-fall-of-canadian-politics/
Features
BY MARK CARDWELL | February 07 2011

Phreaks, renegades, subversives – all are fodder for sociology professor Gary Genosko as he makes his peripatetic way through our technoculture.

dissertations and sitting on a grant review committee of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. For longtime friend and fellow academic Samir Gandesha, Dr. Genosko’s work –notably his theoretical musings on new media and its connection to social and political life – is helping...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/exploring-the-glitches-in-the-system/
Features
BY THERESA TAYLER | April 05 2017

Les professionnels des services aux étudiants peuvent tenir pour acquis que les parents insisteront pour intervenir dans la vie universitaire de leurs enfants.

dissertations et pour le choix de ses cours. En tant que professeure, Mme Paskey est bien consciente aussi de la manière dont les parents hélicoptères peuvent faire déraper les choses. « On a mené des recherches sur les taux de rétention des étudiants dont les parents interviennent trop, ...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/articles-de-fond/article/les-bureaux-des-affaires-etudiantes-sadaptent-aux-parents-helicopteres/
Features
BY WENDY GLAUSER | March 04 2020

Partout au pays, des universités modifient leurs processus d’admission pour attirer les étudiants issus de milieux défavorisés.

dissertations et questions à développement comme l’a fait l’Université Western, afin que les étudiants moins bien nantis puissent parler des difficultés qu’ils ont surmontées et des compétences qu’ils ont acquises en dehors des programmes officiels. Datant de 2016, l’exposé de posi...
https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/articles-de-fond/article/diversifier-les-admissions-dans-les-ecoles-de-medecine/
News
BY JESSICA NATALE WOOLLARD | March 05 2019

The guidelines require students to have a letter signed by their instructor indicating what kind of editing help is permitted.

dissertations at the graduate level. But, as Continue reading – and Ms. Conrad’s research showed – undergraduate students, too, seek editing services, a...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/editors-canada-releases-new-guidelines-for-the-ethical-editing-of-students-work/
News
BY JESSICA NATALE WOOLLARD | March 05 2019

Ses principes directeurs exigent que les étudiants obtiennent une lettre signée par leur enseignant indiquant le genre de révision permis.

News
BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS VENNE | July 04 2019

Mona Nemer is creating a new youth advisory council of people aged 18 to 30 from a range of backgrounds.

dissertations. “The knowledge young people gain on these committees will serve them throughout their careers, while contributing in a concrete way to improving the country’s research system,” he said....
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/canadas-chief-science-advisor-is-looking-for-some-youthful-insight/
In my opinion
BY MARY RYKOV | November 21 2019

Within academia, the professional editor is considered to be an outside, unknown and potentially dangerous entity.

Each semester as assignment deadlines near, dog-ate-my-homework syndrome appears in my inbox (typically around 3:00 a.m.) from undergraduates requesting editorial assistance with laughably unrealistic turnarounds. Most students mean well but are still learning time-management skills. Others are too ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/dog-ate-my-homework-syndrome-and-other-tales-from-an-academic-editor/
In my opinion
BY MARC SANER, ALLY GRAY & STEPHANIE WOODWORTH | March 08 2021

Nos étudiants aiment se référer à un barème, aucun ne nous satisfaisait, donc nous en avons créé un.

dissertations et aux exposés (si le même barème de notation peut être utilisé par les étudiants, les assistants à l’enseignement et les professeurs, il fait gagner du temps et suscite la confiance).
  • Il est approprié : il couvre les principaux élé...
  • https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion/a-mon-avis/un-bareme-de-notation-universel/
    In my opinion
    BY DANIEL WOOLF | June 10 2022

    Pourrais-je vraiment revenir là où avait débuté ma carrière universitaire? Il serait malhonnête de prétendre que je n’entretenais aucun doute, surtout du côté de l’enseignement.

    dissertations aux différents niveaux. J’ai eu tôt fait de constater qu’il existait un écart considérable entre ce qu’on me recommandait et les travaux de 15 à 25 pages que je faisais rédiger dans les années 1990. Ce changement reflète autant l’évolution de l’enseignement de l’...
    https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion/a-mon-avis/remonter-en-selle-apres-plus-de-20-ans-a-titre-dadministrateur/
    In my opinion
    BY JEAN-HUGUES ROY | May 10 2023

    Depuis le début du siècle, un mémoire de maîtrise sur trois et une thèse de doctorat sur deux a été écrite en anglais, au Québec.

    Un point de bascule sera vraisemblablement franchi en 2023. Cette année, le Québec devrait compter un plus grand nombre de thèses et de mémoires publiés en anglais qu’en français. C’est l’un des constats qui émerge de la mise à jour d’une étude que j’ai présentée à la fin av...
    https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion/a-mon-avis/en-2023-langlais-deviendra-la-principale-langue-des-theses-et-memoires-au-quebec/
    From the admin chair
    BY SANNI YAYA | June 13 2023

    La coopération interuniversitaire s’impose pour l’émergence de nouveaux modes de collaboration et de transmission des savoirs, grâce à l’intelligence artificielle.

    dissertations du système d’évaluation des apprentissages universitaires. Convaincue que l’IA peut contribuer à la réalisation du 4e objectif de développement durable (ODD) qui est d’« assurer l’accès de tous à une éducation de qualité, sur un pied d’égalité, et...
    https://www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/opinion/parole-aux-leaders/pour-que-la-quatrieme-revolution-industrielle-prenne-la-place-qui-lui-revient-a-luniversite/
    Margin Notes
    BY PEGGY BERKOWITZ | June 01 2015

    Some are daring to ask how to change the culture of academia.

    dissertations in “public humanities” with a focus towards a broader community. “There is an outward-in focus,” to the new discussion about graduate education, noted Chad Gaffield, history professor and former president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. “The focu...
    https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/margin-notes/humanities-scholars-try-new-ways-of-talking-about-the-phd/
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