{"title":"Editing Is Learning","authors":"J. Bryant","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.126","url":null,"abstract":"At a recent gathering of colleagues in a restaurant perched among the precarious hills of San Francisco, the conversation tipped momentarily toward editing. Some of those seated at the table had been contributors to Leviathan, the peer-reviewed journal of Melville studies I edit. And as I carefully spun the lazy Susan of Chinese dishes to my left, I disclosed what I had heard from another contributor?not present and never mind the name, of course?whose work was soon to appear in the journal. As with all contributions, the essay had been a blind submission, accepted by readers on our editorial board and revised according to their advice. In a final round of revision, I had given the essay a vigorous copyediting, responding often line by line to issues regarding fact, mechanics, and style but also argumentation. After his article had gone through several rounds of such back-and-forthing and been sent off to the compositor, the con tributor wrote to me, with tremendous appreciation, to say that he had never gotten as much feedback from his dissertation director as he had from me. Across the table, another contributor, whose experience moving his essay through the Leviathan matrix had been similar, added his own anecdote. He had made exactly the same comparison between dissertation director and \"Editor Bryant\" but in this case to a fellow graduate student. And as he spun the sizzling beef back in my direction, he reported his friend's riposte: \"Well, yeah, it's his journal.\"","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"26 1","pages":"126-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80344561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Composition Studies Saves the World","authors":"P. Bizzell","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.94","url":null,"abstract":"I had to gather my courage before trying to score on someone as quick as Stanley Fish, who’s faster than Kobe Bryant in the paint. I’ve admired his work and, indeed, been shaped by it for a very long time. He once said something nice about my work—I treasure that. But, unfortunately, in his new book he also says that composition studies presents “the clearest example” of what’s desperately wrong in the academy, because in writing classrooms “more often than not anthologies of provocative readings take center stage and the actual teaching of writing is shunted to the sidelines” (49, 40). Therefore I venture to defend my field and try to block a few of his shots. Fish objects to shunting writing to the sidelines because teaching writing is the proper job of composition specialists and academics have one job and one job only: to teach the material of their disciplines. The goal of this teaching is to help students learn how to arrive at carefully qualified, antifoundationalist, but nevertheless objective and trustworthy truths about the objects of study. For composition scholars, the goal should be to help students learn to write better. But this is exactly what composition specialists have always been trying to do. The field’s development has been profoundly shaped by the changing demographics of the college classroom, bringing more and more","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"24 1","pages":"94-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75097432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Contributions arranged and edited by Michael Cornett
{"title":"Coda: Tales from the Editorial Life","authors":"Contributions arranged and edited by Michael Cornett","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.175","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"102 1","pages":"175-179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80184405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Everyone’s Argus: The Journal Editor in the Academy","authors":"Jana Argersinger and, Michael E. Cornett","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"724 1","pages":"105-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74768079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why How We Read Trumps What We Read","authors":"G. Graff","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.66","url":null,"abstract":"The assumption that the quality of the texts we assign determines the educational value of studying those texts seems so self-evident as to be beyond question. It seems obvious that the higher the quality of a text, the more educationally rewarding reading it will be. The most influen tial modern statement of this view is Matthew Arnold's 1888 essay \"The Study of Poetry,\" in which Arnold argued that with the waning of popular religious faith, poetry had to step in and assume the burden of provid ing spiritual comfort and meaning to an emerging mass democratic so ciety. But Arnold stresses that for poetry to fulfill this new responsibil ity, only poetry of the highest literary quality would suffice. As Arnold puts it, we must \"set our standard for poetry high, since poetry, to be ca pable of fulfilling such high destinies, must be poetry of a high order of","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"197 1","pages":"66-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82808657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Profession of Journal Editing","authors":"B. Luey","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.112","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars usually think of journal editors with some ambivalence. Editors are, first of all, gatekeepers. When one’s article is accepted, the image is of the kindly doorkeeper, opening the way to publication. When an article is rejected, the editor is the evil troll lurking under the bridge, barring the way. The editor’s second generally recognized role is that of emender: to some, a kindly mentor; to others, an interfering Miss Thistlebottom. Beyond that, many give little thought to what editors do. Yet often editors also direct a journal’s intellectual development, manage its finances, create its graphic image, design and manage its Web presence, and set the tone for its relationship with readers and contributors. And given the extent of their influence on academic disciplines and on the careers of their colleagues, it seems equally reasonable to consider what can be done to ensure that they are well prepared for their editorial responsibilities. Is the editing of scholarly journals a profession? At first blush, certainly not! Except for editors at university presses and other scholarly publishing institutions, few people edit full time or for their entire careers. Most journal editors serve part-time, for a few years.1 Moreover, few journal editors have any training for their positions. They are chosen by their colleagues or by a publisher because of their reputations as scholars, and preparation for the job usually involves little more than a meeting with the previous editor and the ritual handing down of files. (The sciences are an exception:","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"24 1","pages":"112-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82969684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editing Journals across Languages and Cultures","authors":"Rose Mary Salum","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.138","url":null,"abstract":"It might not be obvious to many, but academic journals, through their continuous serial publication, knit a fine yet extensive web of language that flows like a nervous system through society, connecting readers to multiple states of intellectual awareness and vibrant potentiality. The work of journal editing in language and literature studies interlaces a collective dialogue that takes place across all the issues of a journal; between that journal and other journals; and, just as important, within and among different nations. A multilingual journal constructs a palpable cultural viaduct, allowing intellectual and literary production to flow into new spaces in other cultures, creating alertness on both ends, for the practice of translation can transcend barriers of language. In an increasingly global way of life, multilingual journals are the catalysts of cultural fusion and assimilation, the place where translation becomes the lattice supporting the growth of the concept of otherness. However, I often wonder to what extent this observation is applicable to journals published in the United States, for editing across language and culture divides is such a scarce activity in this country. I wish to trace some of the forces that impede editing across the divide between English and other languages—particularly Spanish.","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"62 1","pages":"138-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83049609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"We Reach the Same End by Discrepant Means\": On Fish and Humanist Method","authors":"A. Hoberek","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.75","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.75","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"130 1","pages":"75-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72544913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writing to Provoke","authors":"J. Culler","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.84","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.84","url":null,"abstract":"As much as anyone in literary studies, Stanley Fish has taken seriously the injunction to be a public intellectual. Back in the early 1990s he debated Dinesh D’Souza in a large number of venues, on questions of education, political correctness, affirmative action, changes in the literary canon, and other subjects of controversy, in a road show where the attraction was opposing contrarians. Since then he has continued to write essays for nonacademic publication, and Save the World on Your Own Time is a distillation of such op-ed pieces and public pronouncements. Now often when we think of public intellectuals, we imagine someone who mediates between the academy and the general public, explaining academic discoveries to a lay public in terms that they can comprehend: Carl Sagan, Stephen Jay Gould, or Brian Greene. Another version is the intellectual who operates outside the academy and pronounces judiciously on a range of public issues: Emile Zola and Jean-Paul Sartre are illustrious predecessors, but we can also think of Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie, Cornell West, and perhaps Umberto Eco. But Fish has pioneered a different role—the role of public intellectual as provocateur—where the goal is not to explain work in a recondite academic specialty or to propound judiciously on questions of public moment but to provoke, to offer arguments that will irritate and prompt discussion. In this new role, it is not a matter of taking sides in an ongoing controversy—strategically, to promote the side you favor, trying to win","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"16 1","pages":"84-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88137606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. L. Andrews, Katie Hogan, D. Losse, and A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, C. Stimpson
{"title":"Comments on “Standing Still”","authors":"W. L. Andrews, Katie Hogan, D. Losse, and A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, C. Stimpson","doi":"10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1632/PROF.2009.2009.1.351","url":null,"abstract":"Since the report \"Standing Still\" identifies my home institution as one that has created a special program for associate professors, I devote my response primarily to explaining how the program came into being and what its aims are. In fall 2006, in my second year as senior associate dean for the fine arts and humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, I started wondering why we in the college office invested heavily in start-up packages for probationary faculty mem bers, yet, after granting tenure to a colleague who had proved herself or himself professionally, we did virtually nothing in a formal or targeted way to encourage and support new associate professors. Why promise funding, research leave, mentoring, and other perks to faculty members we might not even promote and then offer essentially nothing to support those we had deemed worthy of promotion? Mulling over these questions led me to think about a start-up program for newly appointed associate professors. I didn't attempt to gather data on the length of time it takes associate professors in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences to progress to full professor. I didn't think about whether women or men had been more or less adversely affected during their tenure at the associate professor rank.","PeriodicalId":86631,"journal":{"name":"The Osteopathic profession","volume":"181 2 1","pages":"351-364"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78155572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}