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In the discipline of technical/professional writing and communication, one of the strongest recruiting tools we use is the potential earning power students will have once they obtain a degree and secure a job in the industry. This article is the result of two professors learning that one of their most advanced and dedicated students accepted, in her first job out of graduate school, a salary we thought was thousands below her earning potential. Our conversations around this student's situation led us to survey other alumni from our programs. What we have learned is that students often do not know what salaries they should expect, nor do they feel comfortable negotiating a salary offer. In addition, graduates' location (urban vs. rural) and level of education (BA or BS degree vs. MA) impact their earning potential.

Scholarship on multimethod case selection in the social sciences has developed rapidly in recent years, but many possibilities remain unexplored. This essay introduces an attractive and advantageous new alternative, involving the selection of extreme cases on the treatment variable, net of the statistical influence of the set of known control variables. Cases that are extreme in this way are those in which the value of the main causal variable is as surprising as possible, and thus, this approach can be referred to as seeking "surprising causes." There are practical advantages to selecting on surprising causes, and there are also advantages in terms of statistical efficiency in facilitating case-study discovery. We first argue for these advantages in general terms and then demonstrate them in an application regarding the dynamics of U.S. labor legislation.

Recent scholarship argues for increased attention to students' linguistic diversity and intercultural communication competence. Our study examined the experiences of 10 working engineers who had graduated from an English-medium international branch campus in the Arabian Gulf. An analysis of their interviews reveals the complex role of English as a business lingua franca (BELF) in workplace communication. Interviewees' reflections about their university experience indicate that they had not previously understood the full rhetorical and communicative nature of BELF. We provide implications for instructors who wish to provide methods that center intercultural professional communication and decenter English as a standardized, static language.

Neste artigo, procuramos demonstrar a presença da memória de expressão oral no ensino de História. Importa-nos a articulação da manifestação oral da memória com a história oral aplicada segundo a linha de pesquisa do Núcleo de Estudos em História Oral – NEHO/USP. Consequência do exposto foi oferecer caminhos alternativos para professores de História que pretendam realizar abordagens de história oral a partir da sala de aula no Ensino Fundamental e no Ensino Médio. Destacam-se os gêneros narrativos – já encontrados em pesquisas acadêmicas e em handbooks de história oral – capazes de mobilizar a sensibilidade histórica dos estudantes para além de documentos oficiais com prescrições gerais: história oral de vida, história oral temática, história oral testemunhal e tradição oral.

Neste artigo, refletiu-se sobre a inscrição da história oral na sociedade digital. Para tanto, analisou-se a mudança da ambiência analógica para a digital a fim de localizar novos problemas teóricos e empíricos. Desse modo, as operações em projetos de história oral no tempo presente ganharam relevo. Consagrando as diferenças teóricas, procedimentais e empíricas, referenciou-se, portanto, parte dos autores de diferentes gerações e concepções que se ocuparam com a história oral implicada na sociedade digital. Ademais, foram mencionados argumentos provenientes de autores das humanidades digitais, da história digital e da história pública digital. O artigo foi organizado em duas seções: “História oral na Sociedade Digital”, em que se desenvolveu o enlace entre tecnologias e a institucionalização da história oral desde o mundo analógico para o digital, além de “Comunidades no Mundo Digital” que respondeu, pois, aos desafios da história oral feita na sociedade digital.

This study aims to experimentally investigate the effects of using different percentages of ethanol-biodiesel-diesel blends in diesel internal combustion engines and to analyze energy and combustion parameters. The experiments were conducted on a single-cylinder, four-stroke, air-cooled, and constant-speed diesel generator set with a rated electrical power of 4.5 kW and 79% of full engine load (3.54kW). Temperature, fuel flow, AVL pressure, and rotation sensors were installed on the crankshaft and inside the cylinder. The fuels used were commercial diesel (S-10) and blends with 1%, 2%, and 3% of anhydrous ethanol added to diesel, changing the injection pressure in only one blend. The results show a decrease in thermal efficiency and an increase in fuel consumption, in addition to an increase in ignition delay, an increase in combustion duration, a decrease in in-cylinder pressure, and a decrease in the heat release rate as the percentage of ethanol increased.

In the discipline of technical/professional writing and communication, one of the strongest recruiting tools we use is the potential earning power students will have once they obtain a degree and secure a job in the industry. This article is the result of two professors learning that one of their most advanced and dedicated students accepted, in her first job out of graduate school, a salary we thought was thousands below her earning potential. Our conversations around this student's situation led us to survey other alumni from our programs. What we have learned is that students often do not know what salaries they should expect, nor do they feel comfortable negotiating a salary offer. In addition, graduates' location (urban vs. rural) and level of education (BA or BS degree vs. MA) impact their earning potential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractThis paper reports on a qualitative participatory curriculum study where 5th graders from southeast Wisconsin investigate the concept of community through a process of counter-mapping. Framed by place-based education and spatial justice, this counter-mapping curriculum centers student collaboration and analysis, which provides a way for students to share and complicate their relations to place and implicit spatial knowledge of community. Through this curriculum students demonstrated the ability to collaboratively analyze normative assumptions embedded in the idea of community. In the process, they interrogated economic, racialized, and colonial politics of place, and started to interrogate dominant white spatial epistemologies. Counter-mapping as a curricular method not only facilitates new understanding through a shared critical spatial analysis but can also cultivate new ways of relating to and being with one another that are essential for more-just spatial imaginations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The racialized body is of obvious, or at least implicit, concern for the qualitative study of Whiteness in education. Whiteness, as an organizing principle that conditions normative ways of being in society, is predicated upon the raced body as a social signifier. It is curious then, that "the body" remains under-examined and not treated as a serious analytic. How bodies interact in real time--how educational spaces are brought to life--are left to the analytical wayside in favor of reflective approaches. This paper questions prominent approaches to studying Whiteness in education, and subsequently proposes expanding the methodological repertoire to encompass a phenomenology of racial embodiment as a way to make-meaning of the subtle interactions between bodies unfolding in unique educational places.

Much of the current literature on plagiarism focuses on students, attempting to understand how students view the concept of plagiarism, the best ways to prevent it, and the impact of collaboration on the concept of original authorship. In this article, we look at the role of plagiarism in 761 conference abstracts written by graduate students, early- to late-career faculty, and industry representatives, representing institutions from nearly 70 countries. These abstracts were submitted for participation in an international conference focused on the liberal arts hosted by our institution over the past four years. This study analyzes the corpus for patterns of plagiarism among professional academic writers. Our findings indicate that, while other demographic categories were not consistent indicators of text-matching, full professors were the most prevalent group to produce self-plagiarized abstracts. Overall, our study illuminates the significance of power dynamics in conferences' efforts to maintain academic integrity.

Este artigo é consequência de uma entrevista de história oral realizada com Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy e da memória verbalizada do narrador. Adotando-se a memória de expressão oral como elemento central para a história oral, avança para os efeitos disciplinares capazes de emoldurar temáticas escolhidas pelo interlocutor. Por isso, atende à temporalidade mnemônica. Parte da memória ao apresentar a sua história de vida política como gênero narrativo em história oral. Consequência imediata da entrevista foi a análise, ou a história oral aplicada, que indicou três highlights de memória: 1) Highlight, atenção desperta – sobre olhar pela janela; 2) Highlight, formação acadêmica – a constituição do político; 3) Highlight, ativismo – a constituição da política. Contribui para se pensar a história oral como derivada da memória verbalizada, para repensar a memória de elites econômicas, políticas, intelectuais e para o tratamento de políticas públicas pela história oral. Além disso, inverte a ordem escrita de documentos, leis e outros suportes para dar lugar à oralidade do político. Palavras-chave: História Oral. Memória de Expressão Oral. Elites. Políticas Públicas.

Neste artigo estão registrados fragmentos de uma narrativa de história oral concedida por Maria, uma indígena Kaingang de São Jerônimo da Serra, no norte do Paraná. Memórias de sofrimentos pessoais e familiares foram narradas e analisadas na presente investida acadêmica. Também as estratégias de negociações religiosas e vivências culturais se apresentaram na abordagem.