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- From: GILBERT KLAJMAN <KLAJMAN@APOLLO.MONTCLAIR.EDU>
- Subject: I Found Pro-Forma--here it is!
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- Pro Forma
- The Magazine for the Busy Academic
- Volume 1, Number 1 June, 1992
-
-
- A new journal devoted to those who do not have time to read it. No
- articles - no commentary no book reviews! All sections can be read
- in less time than it takes to advise the average undergraduate
- student.
-
- Here are some of the topics and sections to appear in the first
- issue:
-
- Legal Advisor: "Don't Publish - Don't Perish: Creative Litigation
- and Tenure"
-
- The Art of the Conference:
-
- "Being a Discussant Without Reading the Papers"
- *Opening remarks for every session "These papers
- admirably demonstrate both the strengths and weaknesses
- of the field today." "It is nice to see that some people
- can still get interested in this topic."
- *10 French names that intimidate
- *10 all-purpose long summary sentences with no content
- *The art of academic flattery through easy key words
- "seminal, pathbreaking, essential, fundamental....."
-
- "The All-Purpose Abstract"
- *Just fill in five blanks and this abstract works in any
- discipline, for any conference.
- *Abstracts that describe any paper you later write
- Postmodern, Positivist, Critical, Feminist
-
- "When You Just can't write the Paper - Creative Withdrawls
- from the Program"
-
- Easier Publishing:
-
- "Citation analysis : Journals in your discipline that are
- desperate for papers"
-
- "Ins and outs of repeat publishing - change that title!"
-
- "One paper - eight foreign Graduate students - eight
- translations - eight foreign publications - all in six
- months!"
-
- The Tenure and Promotion File:
-
- "How to form or join a citation circle"
- *agreements that multiply your entries in the annual
- citation index by 10
- "Make a 1-page comment count the same as a book
- "Obscure journals that sound important
- "5 ways to get your book accepted without review"
- "Getting good letters from people who don't know you"
-
- The Pro Forma Bookshelf
-
- "100 One-Line Current Book Summaries"
- *Allows you to freely cite pages, without buying or
- reading the book!
- *Easy-to remember critiques for conversation or class
- *Classified by discipline
- *Rated for political correctness by our panel
-
- "Boilerplate - A New Computer Program that Writes Half of your
- Monograph"
-
- "Classics in Your Discipline"
- *Survey reports how many of your colleagues have actually
- read the classics in your field
-
- Cooperation Column:
-
- Co-Authorship Exchange
- *Have Data, Need Theory
- *Have Theory, Need Data
-
- Washington Buzzword Watch:
- Regular updates from the Beltway Bandit
- What is Hot in NSF and NEH Panels this year
- Trends in Cross-Disciplinary Buzzword Transmission
-
-
- Plus! These new columns to appear in the next issue:
- Advising Timesavers
- Dissertation Defenses without Preparation
-
- Advertisers
- Submission Services International
- We reformat and resubmit until you get accepted!
- Thousands of journals on our lists!
-
- Data Recycling Central
- Don't throw that old data away! We have buyers for good pre-
- owned data sets, lab notes and interview transcripts!
-
- FINALLY, SOME REALLY USEFUL ADVICE ON HOW TO SURVIVE IN THE
- ACADEMY!!
- *****************************************************************
- Daniel A. Ponech
- Laurier University
- From: daniel ponech 957 g
- <dponech4%MACH1.WLU.CA@UMCVMB.missouri.edu> Subject: Pro Forma
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