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 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/
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.
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/