DataCrusader
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Seems like a lot more of a focus on who you are (like the longer personal statement and questionnaire) than on what your research is about (or past research evidence)
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uOttawa shared some wonderful news with me today!
Best of luck to those still waiting.
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For people in the past (or from this cycle perhaps) who heard news pre-SSHRC letter from your grad studies office, did you contact the office directly or did they initiate contact with you?
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Did anyone here apply for the 3M National Student Fellowship? The STLHE announced that we’ll hear back by April 15!
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Also, any news on the “end of March” vs “end of April”?? I would love to think we’re only a couple weeks away from results now!
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On 2018-02-25 at 1:30 AM, PsychBoy said:
good question...
probably no limits...
For the Vanier there's a quota per university for the nomination and then no limits for the winners so it's likely the same process?
Quota for nominees = max limit of winners
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When I edit a hard copy, I type the edits in reverse page order. Almost makes the document feel “New” because you’re looking at it in a different order, and you’ll catch stuff you didn’t see in your first read-through.
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While this might seem obvious, it’s important to remember that the thesis is also much longer than a journal article. First step to writing the latter is to plan honestly - what will actually fit in 10000 words? Then work backwards to fit your necessary development from the body of your thesis.
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At least in my field, coursework that aligns with a thesis is a welcome addition to an early thesis/dissertation draft. It helps get those first (and hardest) hundred words down on paper!
(sidebar: I know at many non-thesis SocSci MA programs, extended research papers usually begin as a term paper)
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On 2017-11-29 at 1:01 AM, TakeruK said:
Just saying: it does depend on each school's requirements. I've seen many people at my old program defend with 2 articles accepted and published and one still under review (three papers is the norm for a thesis by publications here). Usually between thesis defense and final submission, the last article is accepted. I am sure in these cases, the committee will question the advisor during the deliberation period to ensure that the last paper is going to be accepted. In my field though, papers are accepted at a 85%+ rate, so being rejected is not common (i.e. if there are problems with the work, the committee would surely see it). Also, many students publish way more papers than necessary to put into a thesis, so having the last (couple of) chapters be unpublished is probably going to be okay.
85% acceptance rate!
Sign me up! Depending on the Journal, tier-1 pubs reject 80-90+% in mine.
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Unfortunately they'll only read the one page!
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Also depends on the submissions process: if you submit a 200 word abstract and a 100 word bio, you can bet that details in the bio (program prestige, prior publications, experience) will factor into the decision.
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On 10/1/2017 at 10:33 PM, Arwen27 said:
I'll obviously never do it again, but am I basically blacklisted for life?!
A couple general pieces of advice:
- even if you are "blacklisted for life" by one journal, it's only one journal and many many many journals include book review sections
- book review editor positions are not glamorous and thus change frequently
- yes, the name-calling was inappropriate, but this will occasionally happen (along with all other bad habits of "Reviewer #2")
- the only time that you can send out the same written work to multiple outlets is when you are submitting book proposals to Presses
- if the editor was upset, this may have been because they were considering your piece for publication, and that's good!
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Here are some other databases for humanities/soc sci (mostly US, some worldwide):
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7 hours ago, Duns Eith said:
Can anyone else speak to this? I mean, maybe, but that sounds like a weird criterion.
It isn't an official criterion and I've published articles that cite the journal and others where I didn't cite the journal. But citing the journal can help you get past the desk reject, because the editor sees that you fit into the scholarly discussions that are happening in the pages of that journal.
There's also a pragmatic point where the journal editor could very well send a new submission to the most recent author to publish in the journal on that topic. If that reviewer sees that you cited their work, they have a vested interest in your work getting published because that's a citation for them.
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3 hours ago, Swann said:
just out of curiosity, does any one know anything about publishing in edited collections, in contrast to journals
is having a paper included as a chapter in an edited volume more or less challenging?
does either have more "prestige" than the other?
how does the revision process work with papers used as chapters in an edited book?
...or, does publishing in the field primarily occur in journals and edited books are special cases in which the conditions vary?
Refereed journal articles are the most important publications of that length. Book chapter is better than nothing, but it is "worth" less and can take longer to be published.
And from the editing side, Karen Kelsey has a good blog post discussing edited collections here:
http://theprofessorisin.com/2012/07/24/should-i-do-an-edited-collection/
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Anyone having trouble getting on to the Trudeau portal?
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I would recommend not applying to every single top 20 school unless there's a valid reason for you to go there (prestige or research match).
Also, if you're interested in security aspects of ethnic conflict, have you considered comparative? You might find a more specific fit for supervision, although you lose alt-ac credibility.
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A reject is a reject. Even some R&Rs are rejects. But all of them allow you the chance to tweak something to improve your paper.
At the very least, you should cite something from the journal you're submitting to - if you can't, your paper doesn't fit. That means you'll be changing your paper at least a little bit every submission.
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Most published articles are presented in some form or another before they end up printed. If you present a draft of the paper, it is customary to include a footnote thanking your audience in the final version of your article.
It's also totally acceptable to present a published paper at a conference. Because so much is published online these days, your conference audience may end up larger than the audience for your published article.
What IS unethical, however, is passing off an article under review as being "accepted" by a journal. It is not accepted because it is under review, as the vast majority of reviewed articles are rejected by journals.
Also, if your paper is under review at a student journal, be honest about that - getting caught passing off a student journal as a regular journal is bad.
How to choose the right journals for publications
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One quick way to choose is to see what journal you’re paper has cited most frequently - doesn’t always work but sometimes helps narrow the list down