Are Academic Blogs Scholarship?
While blogging has certainly matured, the concept of academic blogging still conjures up, in the eyes of some, images of professors in pajamas whining about ear...
Category: Scholarly Writing & Research
Why the Academic Blog?
Over the past decade blogs have proliferated on the Internet. Among those are the academic blog, which has all kinds of subgenres. We have a colleague, for inst...
An Editor’s Perspective: Tips for Publishing, Part II
In an earlier blog I began to provide a few tips for publishing. As noted earlier, I have edited a journal since 2001. This is a continuation of that blog (http...
Defining and Evaluating Scholarship Lite Content in Higher Education
A few years ago, a friend of ours in the University’s College of Education submitted materials to his departmental Promotion, Tenure, and Evaluation Committee, ...
The Future of Doctoral Education: A Visionary Perspective
The future is an interesting place where we can dream, envision, muse, and create exciting utopian worlds that may one day come to pass. So let me share my visi...
4 Tips for Women of Color Navigating the Dissertation
Did you know that enrollment of Black/African American and Latina/o doctoral students comprised approximately 11.5% and 6.1% correspondingly of enrollments in 2...
A Questionnaire for Assessing Writing Productivity Problems
The New Forums title, Professors as Writers, has stood the test of time as an invaluable aid to scholarly writers. Author Robert Boice prepared this self-help m...
What Editors Do: 3 Tips for Academic Authors
I recently spoke with an author whose manuscript had just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Faculty Development. He was very happy to hear the new...
Football and Theory: Applying Theory to Scholarly Research
It’s common for students to encounter problems when applying theory in a thesis or dissertation. This is often because they are unable see the connection ...
3 Sources of Student Anxiety and Confusion on Applying Theory
Students are usually confused by theory because most of their experience with theory has been in the classroom where “Big” theories were presented. In the class...