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The article discusses the website All Academic, which had raised money by selling conference materials like papers that had been given at scholarly conferences. Matthew B. Johnson of the City University of New York said that he was not aware that his work was available for purchase. All Academic's Steve Stolp apologized that people did not know that the the organization was selling the papers and said that it was a way to recoup costs. The authors did not receive royalties and this might prevent them from submitting the papers to other journals.

Is it proof of shoddy scholarly standards, antipathy against academe, or something else entirely? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the efforts of universities and colleges in the United States to thwart companies that sell ready-made term papers. It discusses the availability of term papers sold under the guise of "editorial assistance." The article cites some of the variety of topics available to students who are inclined to purchase the term papers.

In this article the author discusses digital scholarship in academia and comments on the responsibilities of universities in promoting innovation and providing opportunities for faculty and students to collaborate on research in digital environments. He comments on various research distribution projects including Cornell University's arXiv and the Digital Access to Scholarship (DASH) program at Harvard University, and outlines his ideas on knowledge creation and dissemination.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience writing papers for college students while working as a writer for a custom-essay company.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Citation Obsession? Get Over It," by Kurt Schick in the October 30, 2011 issue, regarding the details associated with the formatting and processes used in citing works in academic writing.

The article focuses on the importance of grading within the process of college teaching, especially in regards to academic papers and literary composition. The author describes his experiences and challenges in grading papers, pointing out the common discomfort but significant importance of individual margin notes addressing nuanced mistakes and improvements. The benefits of confronting personal literary style are discussed, citing his own education through specific critique. The challenges of balancing sympathy with quality standards are also mentioned.

The article reports on several instances wherein the academic writing of Lawrence Technological University assistant computer science professor Lior Shamir was plagiarized in international scholarly journals. According to the article, Shamir's work was copied by individuals including Iranian professors Ali Moghani and Mohammad Reza Darafsheh and Indian college president Preeti Bajaj. Comments from editors of journals that published the plagiarized works are also presented.

States that a major British medical journal, `BMJ' is testing a new system of peer review using the World-Wide Web. Paper by outspoken advocate of online scholarship which has been publicly posted on the journal's Web site; Editors to decide whether to accept the paper and publish it in the printed version of the journal.

The article discusses the author's academic writing experience in the U.S. The mechanics of writing academic papers are complicated, with the additional burden of having to seek permission from the authors to get some of the quotations from their publications with copyrights. The author was annoyed of the idea of considering academic papers, also called as scholarly periodicals, as a private property.

The article presents an exploration into the proper methods of attending and participating academic conferences as a college professor. The importance of keeping up with fellow academes within an individual field is stressed and advice is given for submitting work and garnering the most benefits from meetings. Advice for submitting papers includes attention to quality over quantity and also attending to the logistics of good oratory skills. Casual suggestions to enjoy the location and entertainment aspects of the venues are also given.

The article discusses how ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence language model, has raised concerns and challenges regarding academic writing and student learning. It discusses the capabilities of ChatGPT in generating essays and explores the implications for students, instructors, and the educational process. It delves into the significance of writing in academia and the effort it requires, while raising questions about grading, incentives, and the role of instructors in student learning.

This article reports that an academic paper entitled "A Single System Image: An Information Systems Strategy," is published by CAUSE, a national association for university computing and information technology administrators. The author is Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University vice-president for information systems Robert C. Heterick.

The article reports on controversy over a paper published by researchers at Japan's Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine. At a news conference Dean Masaya Tohyama announced that an investigation, the results of which were not made public, found "flaws" and "immature data" in the paper based on "inadequacies" in its preparation. The paper's author, researcher Dr. Iichiro Shimomura, says the accusations are not substantiated and are politically based, and he is considering legal action. Shimomura's lawyer questions how the university could release his client's name to the press when they have no intent of charging him with fraud or disciplining him. The journal "Science," in which the paper was published, is following the situation but has no plans to retract the paper.

The article presents a profile of scientific publisher Vitek Tracz and his efforts to alter the process of peer reviews of academic research by designing the open source website Faculty of 1000. It overviews his career as a publisher in the scientific and medical fields through his work with the digital archive PubMed Central, presents concerns from medical and science professionals regarding the inclusion of preprint academic research on Faculty of 1000, and explores Tracz's belief that his approach to open access peer review with allow for more academic transparency and ensure ethical refereeing of papers.

The article discusses a lack of humor in academic writing, highlighting biologist Stephen Heard's views on the benefits of including humor in scholarly scientific journals. Topics addressed include the role of humor in attracting and maintaining a reader's attention, as well as the views of editors of scholarly journals.

The author presents his thoughts criticizing Academia.edu, a social media like website for academics to post and share their scholarly writings. He argues that the website is creating an analytics focused approach to academia that prioritizes quantity over quality. In response, he calls for supporting nonprofit alternatives aligned with knowledge-seeking values.

The article profiles Mark Carl Rom, an associate professor at Georgetown University, and his efforts to reform academic conferences. Details are provided on his essay "The Scholarly Conference: Do We Want Democracy and Markets or Authority and Tradition?," which advocates for smaller, more community-oriented conferences. Rom's thoughts on conference presentations and papers are covered as well as his support for creating learning communities through such congresses.

The article discusses the work of applied anthropologist Nancy Fried Foster of the University of Rochester library, who studied undergraduates' habits, research practices, and papers. Her findings helped the library to refine its processes and the way that it markets its services to students, which improved how the librarians viewed the students and better meet their needs. One of the findings was that not all students are naturally adept at using technology. Another unexpected discovery was that many students admitted to discussing their papers with their parents. Since so many of the students were overachievers, their hectic schedules reflected their motivation.

The article discusses research conducted by the journal on the amount of academic writing that is completed by undergraduates studying business or education at four-year schools in Texas. It was found that there were few courses that required students to write papers of 10 or more pages. This issue is the subject of the book "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses," by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa. The educational benefits of academic writing are considered. The research methods used by Arum and Roksa and the journal are discussed.

Reports the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) is considering a proposal to use the Internet for disseminating papers generated by biomedical researchers who have received NIH grants. Money that could be saved by bypassing paper journals; Concerns of scientific journal editors that the plan could cut into their subscriber bases; Creation of a peer-reviewed online journal by Medscape, a medical site on the World Wide Web.

The article discusses an academic paper titled "Cannabis Usage in Tourism: A Sociological Perspective," by Yaniv Belhassen, Carla Almeida Santos, and Natan Uriely. The three authors are from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. The paper was published in the July 2007 issue of the periodical "Leisure Studies." According to the article the study examines the social forces that shape tourists' motives in consuming cannabis while on vacation. The paper also explores the larger issue of the normalization of cannabis use in Western societies.

The author presupposes that many doctoral candidates share the experience of working with a dissertation adviser who is disorganized, overcommitted, and opinionated. According to the author, this has the potential to impact her job search because of the adviser's failure to write recommendation letters in a timely manner and because of her anxiety over meeting with the adviser in order to continue publishing papers from her dissertation. She speculates about the potential career implications of deciding not to publish the remaining papers possible out her dissertation. She determines that, ultimately, she has the power to be in control of her own reactions and should not respond to her adviser in a way that creates limitations.

The article discusses criticism of social psychology research on priming, focusing on the reception of psychologist John Bargh's research. The author highlights failed replications of Bargh's experiments, and special attention is paid to blogs written by Bargh in response to criticism of his work. Other topics include psychologist Harold Pashler's criticism of priming research, research by psychologist Joseph Cesario which failed to replicate Bargh's results on a correlation between bathing and loneliness, and psychologist Gary Latham's research supporting Bargh's work.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to the article "The Shadow Scholar," by Ed Dante, which appeared in the November 19, 2010 issue.

The article profiles Kenyan couple and academic writers Solomon and Eunice. Topics covered include how they got into writing papers for students in the U.S., Great Britain and elsewhere, the challenges of their job, such as completing assignments for Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) students, and how they manage their time working 10 hours a day and looking after their daughter.

The article examines the implications of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered ChatGPT chatbot for teaching, learning, academic writing and research, and faculty writing. Issues discussed are ethical disagreements on plagiarism, authorship criteria and fraud, potential of ChatGPT to reduce intellectual labor and exacerbate inequalities in research, question of fairness, quality and rigor, and transparency for the use of ChatGPT and similar AI technologies.

In this article the author discusses the role journal editors and peer reviewers play in the process of evaluating manuscripts for publication in scholarly journals. She presents her advice regarding what reviewers should include in their academic writing review reports, explores instances of bias within the review process, and describes the differences between the duties of editorial staff members including editorial boards, associate editors, and editors.

An anonymous interview is presented with one of the people in charge of the Ph.D. Challenge, which asks that graduate students find some way of inserting the phrase "I smoke crack rocks" into an academic paper that they get published. The interviewee discusses how he/she got the idea for the contest, which has been publicized via the Internet. The author answers a question about how likely anyone is to accomplish this feat and about the prize of an autographed picture of economist Paul Krugman.

The article discusses the formation of the group the Association of College and Research Libraries, which is composed of academic librarians at for-profit schools. The reason that the librarians broke away from the American Library Association (ALA) is because their for-profit status precludes them from participating in state library consortia. Members also expressed concern about whether college teachers who unwittingly give away the copyrights to their papers when they give them to libraries. Librarian Rush G. Miller of the University of Pittsburgh also discussed the need for libraries to embrace new technology.

The author comments on the amount of scientific research that is published in the U.S. and research that shows that only 45% of these articles are cited once in five years after their publication. The burden of articles on peer reviewers means that refereeing of academic journals can suffer as can the review of grant applications. Increase in subscription rates of academic journals is discusses as are suggestions for how to rescue the quality of academic writing and publishing.

The article calls for papers on the topic of "Borat: Eurasia, American Culture, and Slavic Studies."

An editorial is presented on re-publishing academic writing by a single author in one collection. The author reflects on conference papers re-published together and academic anthologies with multiple authors. Writers such as Christopher Hitchens and Chuck Klosterman are cited as examples of commercially successful authors with an established readership. The author concludes that academic collections must focus on a particular topic and be written for a specific market.

The article provides answers to a question inquiring about examples of unusual experiences of academic writers having their manuscripts rejected for publication.

The article discusses academic publishing group Scoap³, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics. The group was founded to replace expensive subscriptions to leading journals with membership in their system, and will give money to journal publishers while also asking them to distribute all articles free online and to keep their prices reasonable. This will be accomplished by making libraries and researchers collaborate, giving the group enough leverage to influence journal editors.

The author offers advice on how to cope with negative criticism from the academic peer review process when submitting a work for publication. In the event that a paper is directed to be revised and resubmitted, she suggests reviewing the referee's evaluation, avoiding contacting the journal's editor, and addressing three of the least-objectionable points noted in the evaluation.

The article reports on a furor at the University of Utah involving physicists, nuclear engineers, and chemists B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann. Pons and Fleischmann work at the non-profit National Cold Fusion Institute research center affiliated with the university. The chemists threatened to file a lawsuit against the physicists and nuclear engineers if the latter did not retract an academic paper that criticized the two chemists' claim of cold nuclear fusion in a flask.

Deals with academic research and writing. Reversal of the decision of the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Maryland to suppress a book by Andrea D. Hamilton chronicling its history; Investigation into the research findings of bell Labs physicist Jan Hendrik Sch ö n.

Presents news briefs pertaining to scholarly writing as of March 26, 1999. Reaction to a recommendation by `Annals of the Association of American Geographers,' president William L. Graf; Forthcoming publication of the book `The American Mayor: The Best and the Worst Big-City Leaders,' by Melvin G. Holli; Mayors in the top 10.

How to use movie trailers, social media, and other nontraditional forms of rhetoric to improve student writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a schedule of deadlines for fellowships, grant proposals and scholarly papers in the U.S. in January 1982. Applications for postdoctoral fellowships in Near Eastern studies; Proposals for grants under the joint program of the National Science Foundation; Research papers on literacy.

The article discusses the work of economist and futurist Robin Hanson, noting his book "The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth." Topics include the nature of academic discourse and research, his work on a predictions market for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), and his predictions about ems, robotic beings with brains that imitate human brains. His work on interdisciplinary research is addressed.

An essay is presented in which the author comments on ways in which blogging has benefited his academic life as a scholar. He queries how blogging should be viewed in terms of its validity and applicability to scholarly discourse, argues that blogging is not an ideal option for all college professors, and examines how technological innovations are influencing higher education and the mission of academics.

The article discusses the concept of altmetrics, or alternative metrics, a technology tool that evaluates the amount of times scholarly research that is published online is viewed and cited in web-based social networks and Internet websites. A comparison between altmetrics and traditional bibliographic citation analysis is discussed and the role of research analyst Dario Taraborelli and graduate student Jason Priem in the development of altmetrics is explored. Other topics include the altmetrics project Total-Impact, peer review of academic writing, and the social networking website Twitter.

The article discusses issues facing academics who are editing their colleagues. In order to avoid hurting people's feelings and damaging interpersonal relationships, individuals who are helping their peers with academic papers should make sure to use professional language in order to avoid misunderstandings about the content of complaints. The author details her experiences editing friends, including one where the person being edited perceived objective criticism as a personal attack and almost ended their friendship.

This article presents information regarding the submission of academic work to journals for publication. The author recommends that potential contributors should be familiar with the journals they submit to, follow the guidelines of the journal, and proofread carefully before submitting. She also suggests referencing current debate and scholarship to better situate a submission contextually. Writers should also become accustomed to rejection. Most journals do not accept the vast majority of submissions, so rejection is very common.

A schedule for deadlines of submissions for applications for fellowships, grants and academic papers in the U.S. in 1982 is presented. It includes the deadlines for applications for Marguerite Wilker Johnson fellowships in childhood education, for short-term grants for postdoctoral research and for participation in summer seminars for college teachers.

A personal narrative is presented in which the author, a mid-career college professor, reflects on ways in which the computer software Freedom and the web-based mentoring program Academic Ladder has aided her in her progress with breaking her writer's block and establishing professional goals.

In this article the author comments on the processes she uses when writing and revising scholarly manuscripts. She comments on ways in which her use of nontraditional fonts and spacing on electronic documents has allowed her to view her writing differently and argues that editing her work as it may appear on a page in a scholarly periodical has provided her with has enabled her to become more critical of her writing.

In this article the author, an editor for a scholarly journal, voices her displeasure with the quality of research presented for publication by scholars who have received the Ph.D.'s. She comments on various aspects of the research she reviews which leads her to determine that scholars are not interested in quality scholarship, but rather quick publication, which she calls "fast-food scholarship," including limited citations, incomplete arguments, and minimal supporting evidence.