The Politics and Processes of Scholarship

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Edited by Joseph M. Moxley and Lagretta T. Lenker

Foreword by R. Eugene Rice

ISBN: 0-313-29572-7

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29572-0

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280 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 11/30/1995

List Price: $126.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Contributions to the Study of Education

Series Number: 66

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This timely collection documents what the editors and contributors see as the scholarly profession's current struggle to redefine itself....Highly recommended.
—Choice
This book provides a more polished sample of the ideas presented at a four-day confrence on The Politics and Processes of Scholarly Publishing held in Marsh 1994 at the University of South Florida.
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Higher Education Abstract

Description: Joining the debate about the role of scholarship and research at American universities, this book examines contemporary academic issues, such as the evolution of postmodern concepts of scholarship, scholarship in the late age of print, and incentives for promoting grant writing and scholarly publishing. Contributors, including provosts, faculty development professionals, administrators, editors, and scholars, debate the impact of the German system of research-based graduate study and its faith in the ideal of pure research on American scholarship. Several contributors contend that the legacy of privileging pure research over applied research and pedagogy provides an inadequate model today. Teaching, conducting applied research, and writing works for broad audiences are undervalued, they claim, at many universities. As scholarship becomes more specialized, scholarly writing has become so specialized that few outside the specific discipline can read or understand it. This volume continues the challenge to the concept of pure research and atheoretical teaching. Contributors demonstrate how postmodern theories and social and economic problems are working to explode the myth of disinterested research. The book goes on to analyze how academics can grapple with the social, political, moral, and pedagogical issues confronting society. It also considers the impact of new technologies, such as online databases and electronic journals, on scholarship. Current research suggests that only 10 to 20 percent of the nation's faculty produce the scholarly literature. This volume explores the changes that could help faculty find their voices as scholars, researchers, and grant writers.

Table of Contents:

Foreword by R. Eugene Rice
Introduction by Joseph M. Moxley and Lagretta T. Lenker
Postmodern Conceptions of Scholarship
Avoiding the "Research versus Teaching" Trap: Expanding the Criteria for Evaluating Scholarship by Richard C. Gebhardt
Disciplinary Associations and the Work of Faculty by Robert M. Diamond
Talking about Research: Are We Playing Someone Else's Game? by Elizabeth S. Blake
A Reexamination of Views of Scholarly Publishing and Our Expectations of Faculty Productivity in Light of Federal Government Support by Maggie Johnson and David Watt
Prospects for a Revaluation of Academic Values by Morton Winston
The Dialectic of Feminism and Scholarship by Patsy Schweickart
Scholarship in the Late Age of Print
The Scholarly Journal and the Intellectual Sensorium by Ralph Norman
Academic Publishing and New Technologies: Protecting Intellectual Property is the Key by James Lichtenberg
All Information is Already in Formation: The Internet and the Future of Learned Journals by R. A. Shoaf
Prototypes: New Forums for Scholarship in "The Late Age of Print" by Todd Taylor and David Erben
Pulling Out the Rug: Technology, Scholarship, and the Humanities by Paul LeBlanc
The Physicality of Research: Typesetting, Printing, Binding, Fulfillment, Storage, and Academic Snobbery by George Simson
Communities of Scholarship in the Electronic Age by Douglas Harper
Old Solutions to New Problems: Looking to Renaissance Texts for Strategies of Hypertext Composition by Richard Smyth
Initiatives for Promoting Grant Writing
Developing and Supporting Faculty Grant Success: Building Research Capacity at Medium-Size Colleges and Universities by Sandra Featherman
Publishing, Proposing, and Progressing by W. A. Sibley
Characteristics of Successful Institutional Grants by Robert Lucas
Initiatives for Promoting Scholarly Publishing
Adam Smith's Rules for Writers by Bob Boice
The Role of the Scholarly Editor by Brian Thompson
Active Mentorship in Scholarly Publishing: Why, What, Who, How by Terri Frongia
Mentoring and the Art of Getting Dissertations Published by Fredric Gale
Annotated Bibliography of Academic Publishing Sources by Bruce Speck
Index

LC Card Number: 95-16147

LCC Class: AZ507

Dewey Class: 001


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